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And in case you were wondering YES I am VERY much inebriated 🥃 🥴

A while back I made a post asking for opinions on my online dating profile pics. A couple of them were pics of me at a coaster park. This one commenter insisted that it was weird that an adult was going to amusement parks.

My friend asked me, “What do you miss about being younger?”

⬇️ Here’s what I said... Can anyone else relate? ⬇️

What I miss about being younger— specifically during grades 1 through 5— is being free from the weight of expectations. Things were so much simpler in those years. I didn’t have to worry about consciously feeling the heaviness of drama and life’s problems. Life felt so carefree before I learned what actual stress of self management was.

I think that once I reached middle school, I became aware that things were changing. That I would have to start relying on myself. When we were in elementary school, even the bigger kids had help. They knew they were being prepared for transitioning into middle school, but they weren’t yet aware what that weight of self reliance felt like.

When the big kids we went to school with were still carefree, things still felt carefree. Then once we became the big kids in elementary school, we had the pride of being able to be role models for the younger kids.

The thing about middle school… is that once you get there, you’re not one of the big kids anymore. The big kids in middle school are meaner and somewhat hardened by feeling the weight and stress of responsibility.

Once you get exposed to that in your daily school environment, you start to sense a shift in the atmosphere. That shift is their stress. That shift is the growing of awareness- an awareness that young children didn’t know before. For me, the gaining of awareness was the loss of the ability to truly feel carefree and innocent.

Like you were initially attracted somewhat, like blinded by a nice personality and later discovered that you aren’t attracted to them

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Melissa- been there for 10+ years, probably helped the CEO shovel dirt to build the place, mean and b*tchy, esp towards new people, forms cliques so she can be Regina George

So I have this problem where if I hear something is well liked or rated really high, I watch them expecting it to have some cool shocking moments but get disappointed when it is not what I expected. This bad habit of mine ruined many animes and shows for me like FMA Brotherhood, attack on titan, etc. where I see the above 9 rating and think it's gonna be some amazing episode but I end up getting disappointed when it was not as good as I expected.

But then recently I watched game of thrones and while seasons 1 to 4 were extremely good and it instantly became my favourite TV show of all time, I watched season 8 knowing it was going to be extremely bad after seeing all those horrible reviews and ratings on it but I surprisingly enjoyed season 8. Like while it wasn't as good as season 1 to 4 I personally felt it didn't deserve the hate and it is an unpopular opinion but I feel like I wouldn't had the same opinion if I was one of the people excitedly waiting for it back in 2019.

Then another case was the game Last of Us where I heard it was one of the best stories in video game history and I had insanely huge expectations but when I played it I thought the story was mid like Ive watched numerous tv shows or read books that I felt had better stories. And on a replay the story felt a bit better but still I didn't think the story was that good. And idk if it is coz of my huge expectations.

Even in attack on titan, I remember seeing how season 3 and 4 had such huge ratings and while I do admit the episodes were good, I appreciated them more on mu re-watch of the anime while my first watch I was disappointed that it wasn't a huge plot twist or as unexpected of a twist as that infamous season 2 episode (if you know what I mean).

How do I stop this bad habit as it is ruining many great shows for me but at the same time making me enjoy absolute trash ones like GOT season 8.

i finished rewatching the 100.. a very long 7 season 2000s show and i feel like i just broke up with it omg. like why am i like this i had an emotional connection with it lmao

Is this just coincidence or is there a name for it?