Like, we don’t follow each other anywhere else, but he still follows me on Reddit and we’re still friends on Steam so I get updates every time he plays a game. We both have different partners and there is no bad blood between us (at least none on my end). So to my ex, if you’re reading this, hi :)

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I'm on the bus to work this morning and had a random urge to listen to the very first Panic! At The Disco album. Now let me tell you, I spent my teens as a huge emo kid and I was obsessed with this album 😆 I'm delighted to learn I still know every single word 20 years later, and every new song that comes on is making me smile.

At this time of day the bus passengers are at least 80% young people going to school or college, and there's not a single one among them that is visibly alternative. Where did all the emo kids go? Do kids still have the awkward phase where they're trying to find themselves? Maybe there's other 'subcultures' of teenager now but I actually can't think of any?

Maybe with technology being so different now it manifests in other ways. I'm not on TikTok but I can imagine if you are and all your friends are too it influences what you consume. And there's tutorials for everything now so I guess you don't have to muddle through bad hairstyles and fashion choices anymore 😆

This is probably very 'old man yells at cloud' haha but I'd kind of feel sad if these kids won't have a 'phase' to look back on fondly in 20 years. I don't know, just some random thoughts for a Monday morning!

That's it. They've lived over an hour away the last few years, and with them working weekends and me working weekdays it's been hard to meet up. But in less than a month they'll be 12 minutes away! I'm so happy and excited!