How do you feel compared to a decade ago?

[Yuri_]

How you feel about the world, how you feel mentally, your general outlook in life, etc etc.

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

i miss it when the internet wasn't normalfaggy shit

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I've aged 20 years in 5 ...

 

[Snigger]

Well now I can vote, drive, drink, buy tobacco, and I'm depressed

 

[AMHOLIO]

I like not being a teen anymore. I have the freedom to drive places, I have my own money to pay for things, I am on my own schedule, I have the power to go to doctors if I want, I make my own choices and have much less worries than high school.

We can romanticize teen years but looking back, they can be pretty hellish. I'll take autonomy to fuck myself over versus being shat on in life without much to fight back over any day. I feel those who genuinely had it better as teens, this is more as a general thing.

 

[Uncle Sid]

I feel dead

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

2012: Optimistic, Retarded, Atheist, Evolutionist, Listens to Modern Pop Trash (Maroon 5, One Direction), Eats like a toddler, Mindlessly eats up what the news says, Black Lives Matter, Supports LGBT, Plays Roblox.

2022: Pessimistic, Intelligent, Christian, Creationist, Listens to more Older or Indie music titles (MGMT, Molchat Doma, Aphex Twin, Cabaret Voltaire), Explores weird foreign dishes, Questions everything around me, Thinks Immigration ruined Europe, Homophobe, Still Plays Roblox.

 

[Soycast Guy]

3 ft taller, 10 years older, and many inches longer.

 

[Agarathium1066]

I felt I was a cynical sort in 2012, worthless, and generally doomed to die very early then be forgotten. That the world was a lovely place at times and I was just not fit to live in it.

Turns out I was wrong on nearly all of it. I've improved as a person but the world seems to have suffered in the meanwhile. My previous cynicism is very quaint compared to your average person these days. Social media still sucks though and that won't change.

 

[Shidoen]

Taller, less fat, and unmistakably ugly.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Chubbier, more depressed, and stuck in the same situation as 10 yrs ago but more pathetic.

 

[awoo]

Older and fatter. But maybe a little smarter (probably not)

 

[Some Badger]

I’m more in check with my emotions and can pick my battles better, but I’m still frustrated about never fully fitting in with any particular social group, niche, fandom, etc. I’ve mostly given up on trying to get people to like me and live on my own terms without caving to various social pressures.

Oh, and covid kneecapping my line of work for a year ironically got me in the best shape of my life and now I actually care about being fit.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I'm much happier than I was in 2012. About 100 pounds lighter, too.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

I went from being depressed and not knowing why to being depressed and knowing why. Jury's still out on if that's an improvement.

 

[mario if smoke weed]

I went from being depressed to depressed.

War never changes.

 

[Retink]

Numb? I'm guessing a lot of the bullshit I'm noticing now is just shit that existed before but I wasn't aware of, and there's still good stuff out there like the Kiwifarms, but it's hard to not just be doompilled when you notice all of this and don't have a solution.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Older, wee bit more world weary, less tolerant of bullshit, finding myself having more “back in my day…” moments with younger family members, went from being on the political left to more right leaning libertarian

Christ, put a Monster in my hand and I’ve become the 30+ year old boomer meme

 

[Lucky Jim]

More confident. I think my choices in the past ten years have done more good than harm, and the next ten years I'll be still more capable

 

[Uncle Phil]

I don't work as hard but make more money; I'm in a relationship that is good for me instead of one that is bad for me; I am drifting away from a young men's sport and getting more into golf; and the car I drive now is a fuck of a lot more fun.