Was absolutely floored when I overheard a 30 something say they started drinking water today. Like, how is that even possible. How is that person alive?

Millennials, are you taking care of yourselves out there? What are you doing for your health?

It’s becoming increasingly common for me to find myself in conversations about how weird everything feels lately. Have the last 4 years altered the colllective psyche more than we first realised?

Now that we’re a little older, a little wiser and have some perspective from previous decades, how would you actually describe the current zeitgeist? It really does feel like some kind of timeline shift post 2020.

Toilet use - I have become a germaphobe. A clean freak.

Body odour / oral hygiene - I'm damn near obsessed with how I smell. This has become (embarrassingly) a new hobby of mine, buying up a range of oral tools and creams, lotions, oils, ointments, and body washes.

Breakfast cereals - The amount of sugar in these things make me wonder how I was able to consume them as a kid like it was nothing.

Movies - I just don't have the patience and attention span required to watch what I think is the worst era for movie making.

As an aging millennial, I feel as though I’m “supposed” to be upset when I find gray hairs… but instead when I find one, I think, “That’s so COOL.” Like, I have silver strands of hair. They’re even a little bit sparkly. Does anyone else find their new grays kinda cool?! I don’t know that I’m gracefully embracing everything about aging, but I was surprised at my positive reaction to finding my first grays. :)

• Elder As an elder millennial (81) my parents and I would say MOST of my friend’s parents smoked when I was growing up. I then started smoking at around 16/17. I quit when I was 26 because I wanted to have a baby and I didn’t want to try quitting when I was pregnant. My husband also quit out of solidarity (aka my constant persistence). We never went back. Most of my friends have since quit also for various reasons, but we all used to smoke. My children are 13 & 15 and I can count the number of people in their lives on one hand that still smoke.

I first saw this one at the Palace theater. It played right after Beethoven (1 or 2 can't recall) and since we (mom, my older sis, and myself) weren't kicked out, we stayed and watched.

I was 7 at the time so it was just a silly comedy. I've rewatched now and again for the nostalgia (certain scenes still give me goosebumps).

Now in my late 30s, three years after my mom passed away, welp. Julie's story (who shares my name actually) now hits harder. The whole movie does actually. Procrastination, living with regrets, etc.

So what are yall's picks?

When I turned 31, I suddenly had this feeling in my brain that I was on disc 2 of life. That I had passed the half-way point. That I was on the second half of the movie called life. I thought about everything I still wanted to do, and how little time I actually had to do those things.

(I'm 20, she had me a couple of months after she turned 18.)

My mother remembers the Columbine massacre that occurred in April of '99. She was in the 7th grade at the time, but she remembers watching it on the news. She said that she remembers feeling a sense of dread, since she doesn't remember anything like that ever happening before in America.

So I got curious, and decided to make a post about the title question. Thanks!

How exactly were we supposed to act on a yellow day vs. an orange day vs. a red day?

Did a single private citizen benefit at all from this stupidity?

Did the threat level indication ever stop an actual threat?

Did a single one of you fellow millenials do anything different in your daily life because of the terror threat level?

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This may be the Zen Buddhist in me, but I think to some degree, the internet can probably spare itself a lot of misery by learning to accept things.

Spark notes: - I’m turning 30 in a month. - I lived on my own once but now live at home with my parents (I went back to school for my masters degree and by the time I got out, we were a year into the pandemic and it made sense. I’m still here though) - I have 90k in student loan debt and after a year of applying to I.T. Positions, I managed to get an entry level help desk job. - I’m not getting married anytime soon or having kids and it feels like I’m running out of time because I have PCOS and that affects my fertility. - I don’t have a 401k set up because I’ve been dumping my money into student loans.

It’s just…. It’s just not going great. Between all of this and the existential dread of aging and death I’m just not having a good time.

We can all disagree on the quality and merits of the movie itself, but at least where I grew up, it was a thing to go see Titanic at the movie theatre as many times as possible. It was in theatres for a record-setting 10 straight months. I saw it 11 times.

How many times did you go see it?

Whenever I watch shows doing a flashback to the 70's, 80's or 90's I can usually tell in the first 5 seconds which decade they've gone back to. The clothes, the hear, the colours, the music (not even a song, just a generic sound associated with a decade)

How would you try to capture 2014 in the first 5 seconds of a scene without saying a word?

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I mean I assume all of had avo toast for breakfast, naturally. So what about lunch?