I feel like long socks with sneakers and shorts looks goofy but maybe that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

I didn't know this was a millennial thing but I won't stop doing it, lol.

I started drawing last year at 39 and painting seriously in January. Before that I had never really thought of myself as an artist.

This weekend I got to see one of my paintings hanging in a student exhibition for the first time.
Turning 40 has been a nice reminder that there are still completely new things about ourselves left to discover.

Anyone else pick up something around this age that unexpectedly became a big part of your life?

It's true though but idgaf. They'll never take lmao and lol from me!!

Here's mine

My personal anecdote here being every single goddamn time I finally make enough money, or get ontop of debt, or fix something in my life, something happens that just puts me back to a new variant of square one. Decent wage? The economy plummets/everything gets more expensive to match it. Ontop of debt? My ceiling caves in and exposes an eye-watering issue with my roof (aka, new roof). Make a dream come true? You've just bought a foreign classic car right before a war with fucking Iran. Book your dream road trip overseas with friends and a big villa you got for an insane deal? Well here's COVID. Here's a historic, global pandemic 2 weeks before you leave.

I don't know maybe this is just a rant. But it just feels like everytime I come up for air a bullshit eldritch tentacle yanks me back down under the icy depths