on top of that, people either wear sun tan lotion or take measures to limit the sun exposure. Ill be turning 40 in this decade (loljk this year) and the half generation between me and my, about to be 60 in 2 years, parents look 1000x’s older than every single person younger than them when their ages eventually match.

That was hard to explain so ima just lay it out. Its about 20 years between my parents and I. Their youngest friends have always been 10 years younger than them cuz thats how old my dads closest but youngest brother is. My friend were always all over the place but pretty sure theyre all within 10 years my senior.

We live in a small town and have a huge family. Last i counted we were at 49 1st cousins and 1st cousins once removed. Which means 1st cousins and kids of those 1st cousins… on my mom’s side. Pops only had 3 siblings but both his parents were sitting a bakers dozen deep of sibling each. So his side gave us the rest of the fucking town as 2nd cousins.

Just to give context of the brickhouse volume of individuals ive been able to watch age very very closely. The pivot point where it all seems to change is whether or not you graduated before 2000 or if you graduated after 2005.

It wasnt 9/11 either that did it. Everywhere and everyone just did q complete societal flip from raising kids by the survival of the fittest bible, to the worst period of helicopter parents ive still ever seen.

World really is so different with avalable information versus the centuries long argument “cuz i said so”. Swear to god the green flag of it all was MADD’s successful push on drinking and driving. Which in hindsight is wild cuz all it was, was PTA moms chatting it up, like there was no fucking emails, there was no social media like thwre is today. Youd be more likely seeing a normal grown ass adult shit their pants than you were to see anyone older than 25 on facebook. No smartphones, so no text or sharing or forwarding. It was all completely done word of mouth.

Im way off even my original tangent but the bottom point I guess was, people stopped living their life like theyd rather take a bullet than get called a pussy for putting on sun screen or going outside to smoke instead of clambaking cartons at a time cuz thats what rulled the world for centuries before there was a thing like being informed or fact checking.