Don’t know who needs to see this, but here ya go

Exactly what I thought. I am sitting here choking up while sitting my own house, and about to go get some food in my car, and go have lunch with my wife while she is at work.

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Fngrbngr79@reddit

Look at all you’ve accomplished friend. Glad you had some tears to share. We need it sometime. At least I do

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pogulup@reddit

If you need a better critic, I can help you out there.

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Fngrbngr79@reddit

Thanks friend. Always know I can count on this group to critique me with the same sincerity I’d give myself or better

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DameKitty@reddit

Before seeing this i thought "young me would be proud of older me." Seeing this, I * know * younger me would be super proud of older me.

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My wife and I both make pretty good incomes. Yet our lifestyle is not at all the same as I had as a kid where my dad worked a sales manager job and my mom stayed at home for the majority of my childhood.

It can be easy to feel that I’m a failure compared to them, but I try to focus on everything that I have to be grateful for and there’s so much.

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tausendmalduff@reddit

This makes me feel good and bad. They should invent a word for that

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glorfindelreddit@reddit

I’m sure the Germans have the perfect term for it.

Great perspective driver heading into Saturday brunch

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Backflip_into_a_star@reddit

Now say that with one word in German.

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Proper_Guess3038@reddit

Bittersweet

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Adbam@reddit

Wow that was great thank you

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bgva@reddit

Well shit. Wasn't expecting such wholesomeness on a Saturday but here we are.

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bigsexy12@reddit

I was bracing for a "Look at the rabbits" kind of ending.. this was much better. 10/10

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Ace_Robots@reddit

I think Lennying your 8yo self is how you become a conservative.

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

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Shadowblade79@reddit

I was expected it to go sideways at some point. (Ben has cancer! A dead wife, etc)

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Rdubya291@reddit

Especially from reddit and especially from you degenerates. Lol

That hit hard.

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Independent_Step9574@reddit

I sometimes forget that kid me never even thought I would make it out of childhood. He’d be pretty happy. Thank’s bro.

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ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit

"You haven't left the house in how long?'

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KirkorPicarD1@reddit

I think it’s ok to forgive myself sometimes and appreciate myself a little more. Especially since I don’t do that at all currently.

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HelenaHansomcab@reddit

I am a little too old for this subreddit and this still made me ugly-cry.

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Celtic_Fox_@reddit

This is majority of this guy's content, you'll laugh at the jokes and then bam he's actually hit you with existential problems!

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memberflex@reddit

Who is it? I can’t see a link anywhere.

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notsosprite@reddit

What’s his name?

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TeaseTheBreeze@reddit

I keep a picture of myself as a proud little kid around, for this same reason.

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76@reddit

One of my favorite new perspective/gratitude exercises is to pretend like my 80 year old self and my 10 year old self are both looking in on me just being impressed as hell at how independent and successful I am. I'm still young enough to have great mobility, my parents still alive, and minimal wrinkles, and old enough to have all the cool things I used to wish for as a kid.

It's a great age even if we don't have all the things we think we should have.

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Strange_Airships@reddit

Stop. Why did this have me sobbing. 😭

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Mopa304@reddit

Buddy, not only do I know how to make grilled cheese, sometimes I make two of them...as the buns for my burger!

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SnuggiedToDeath@reddit

I needed to see this today.

Thanks

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vhs1138@reddit

Huh….

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delibertine@reddit

If my kid self saw and met my wife, nothing else unchecked would matter

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bauhaus_robot@reddit

Aaaand I’m off to be a cool adult with my kids. ✌️

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SlappyBottoms26@reddit

Who’s chopping onions? No one else lives here! This was awesome and needed

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GoldenHourTraveler@reddit

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whisar09@reddit

This made me me fucking cry. Sometimes I feel like such a failure compared to other people my age but little me would have just been amazed that I had any space of my own (rented but ya know), a car, a nice husband and a REALLY cool daughter.

Hell yeah!

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

Ditto on sometimes feeling like a complete failure but comparison is the theft of joy. It's important to remember those peers who seem to have it all together have their own disappointments, failures and insecurities.

It sounds like you're doing great, way to go!

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whisar09@reddit

Very true! I need to remember that money doesn't fix everything and I have a happy home life which is worth more than anything. I'm sure you're doing a great job too because you're a kind person!

p.s. I'm also from 1985 and a guitar enthusiast! 🤝

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

Thank you. I hope younger me wouldn't be too disappointed that we didn't become a musician or a pro wrestler. I hope he'd be impressed with the stuff I have accomplished though. I didn't end up where I thought I would but I have a lot of contentment.

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Fredrick__Dinkledick@reddit

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Mdriver127@reddit

I don't watch TV series, but I'd watch seasons of this featuring different people each time.

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SloppyBuss@reddit

I feel like younger me would be so excited that I finally have a pet! I always wanted a cat or dog growing up but my mom hated animals and killed my pet bird that my aunt gave me for Christmas.

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xbbdc@reddit

It's even more bittersweet that we have the same name 🥹

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Significant_Mode50@reddit

Omg bawling…. I didn’t know I needed this. Thank you so much for sharing. Life is so hard, but we are doing it, guys! 👊🏼❤️🥹

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absentlyric@reddit

Very true! I got bad grades when I was a teen even got held back for skipping school, and my dad always scared me into thinking I would be digging ditches with a shovel for my future.

Well, I busted my ass later in life, and ended up getting a good paying trades job, my own place, cars, actual girlfriends that I NEVER had as a teen etc. I think my younger me would be very impressed.

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wh33t@reddit

Ouch, right in the feels </3

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Maelstrom_Witch@reddit

You had no right to be that wholesome to me on a Saturday morning.

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InMyHagPhase@reddit

This is one of the better ones. I dunno about anybody else but I've been doing a lot of introspection when I got to have 45 and after a hospital visit. I thought young me would be so mad I didn't become perfect. I'm holding myself back it seems.

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this_knee@reddit

Grilled cheese is pretty good tho

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jolly_rodger42@reddit

r/mademecry

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bootsand@reddit

Apparently I really needed this.

Ty.

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Azaroth1991@reddit

Fuck im too sentimental for this shit.

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BiscottiLeading@reddit

I just put Chrismas lights up in my porch room, and I put a bunch of 2nd hand furniture in there with some of my Lego sets and my crochet and knitting stuff. I told my husband it looks how I imagined my house would look like when I was 14 and I love it! We also painted the walls lots of saturated colors that would probably land us in the Zillow gone wild sub reddit. We worked so hard to get our own places, we should decorate them how we want.

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BradSilverback@reddit

Shew, watching this had me booing my eyes out.

It made me really appreciate the "now". Terrific post.

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redditcreditcardz@reddit

Legitimately gave me chills. I struggle as an “adult” and this is such a great perspective. Did not expect that. Amazing work 💛💛

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ThePerfectSnare@reddit

I was expecting him to smell the marker. Your sense of smell is closely linked to your memories of particular scents. I don't know how it works. I didn't grow up to be a brain surgeon. I went the rockstar path and now I check paperwork for clerical errors. Oh, well.

Remember scented markers? I wonder if I sniffed markers too much as a kid. Yellow smelled like lemons.

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ottodidakt@reddit

Haha depends on what kind of markers were around the house. We had the scented markers, those were great. I remember the grape-scented purple one. But some of the markers in the garage, the my folks used to label boxes? Those smelled like brain damage 😂

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person144@reddit

I bought a pack of Mr Sketch markers for my kids and I. They were cheap and they smell exactly like you remember. It’s 100% worth it

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FishRepairs22@reddit

Hey neighbour! I know that park!

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MajesticLow@reddit

Not me weeping on a Saturday… this hit just where I needed it. Thank you

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andrewbaidoo@reddit

Soul healing.

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SubCiro28@reddit

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Shinespark7@reddit

Hey Ben, down for some Halo?

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BillyDMountain@reddit

I'm not crying, you're crying!

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Abeefrog@reddit

😭😭

I do need that. Sometimes I worry that the younger Me hate who I am today.

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blackandbluegirltalk@reddit

Damn, that was pretty good. He's a good actor!

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For_Real_Life@reddit

Standing here in my bathroom crying like a baby.

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NiceGuyNeverDie@reddit

Bravo! Loved it ❤️

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peekaboooobakeep@reddit

Shouldn't have hit like it did but I appreciate the slap

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frankreynoldsrumham@reddit

That wasn't the tearing up I expected. Especially, when I first saw then marker I thought, "Oh! Spitballs!" 😂

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Iconshero@reddit

Thank goodness. Im so jaded by internet dark humor, i thought there was a twist coming. Like he was gonna do something so he wouldn’t exist in the future or he was writing a farewell note. Just a wholesome skit.

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msbigheadsvocalcords@reddit

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Got me a little misty eyed here

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Poseidons_kiss81@reddit

It’s no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy 🎶

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bootyhole-romancer@reddit

You make me cum 🎶

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bootyhole-romancer@reddit

That was wholesome af 😭

But then now I'm left with the overwhelming suspicion that I've just been nostalgia-bated.

Cynicism as a teen in the 90s = cool and mature

Cynicism in your 40s = depressing; either take me back or just end it all now

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Sad-Structure2364@reddit

Haha I love this!

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PackageNorth8984@reddit

It’s healthy to criticize the elite but also important to give ourselves grace and not forget to be grateful for what we do have. It’s about keeping our own peace and still recognizing that we deserve better.

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n0cturnald3sign@reddit

I’ve not watched this 4 times. You have

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Nervous-Jicama8807@reddit

Is this song from eternal sunshine on the spotless mind?? This clip hit me right in the heart.

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Intelligent-Invite79@reddit

My parents have passed, but when I see my kindergarten picture at my aunts I apologize to the little guy I see in the photo. Some things are out of my control, but illnesses, depression, I feel so bad for the little version of me that I see in the picture. I can’t help it, but this is beautiful.

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captainbrickle@reddit

Dude just won best picture Oscar!👏👏👏