Things you miss

[Leeds Ram]

I miss sitting in my office just being able to read my articles and write up my thoughts knowing that the future was at least 3 years off. 

I miss going to the cinema at 10.00pm after staying late at the office and spending a fiver for my entertainment. 

I miss regularly seeing my friends without feeling guilty for not doing something i should have off my list. 

I miss not feeling under immense pressure and strain almost every hour I'm not sleeping. 

[TomBustler1884]

1 hour ago, Leeds Ram said:

I miss sitting in my office just being able to read my articles and write up my thoughts knowing that the future was at least 3 years off. 

I miss going to the cinema at 10.00pm after staying late at the office and spending a fiver for my entertainment. 

I miss regularly seeing my friends without feeling guilty for not doing something i should have off my list. 

I miss not feeling under immense pressure and strain almost every hour I'm not sleeping. 

Never underestimate the importance of doing things just for you. If seeing your mates every now and again is your happy place, then it's just as important as anything else you have to do.

Hope you are okay, that last sentence made me worry a bit. Don't know you, but if you ever need to talk, I'm a Mental Health First Aider and would be happy to help. Problem shared and all that. 🙂

[Miggins]

3 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:

I miss sitting in my office just being able to read my articles and write up my thoughts knowing that the future was at least 3 years off. 

I miss going to the cinema at 10.00pm after staying late at the office and spending a fiver for my entertainment. 

I miss regularly seeing my friends without feeling guilty for not doing something i should have off my list. 

I miss not feeling under immense pressure and strain almost every hour I'm not sleeping. 

Take care, @Leeds Ram and I really hope you feel better soon. 2010 and I was in your position more or less. It was only a visit to the doctor that saved me. Hope that you find a route that makes you feel much better. PM me if you need a chat!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[i-Ram]

8 hours ago, Leeds Ram said:

I miss not feeling under immense pressure and strain almost every hour I'm not sleeping. 

I think a tremendous number of young people feel the same way. The pressure, much of it from peer groups, but also media and parental, to be seen to achieve and succeed nowadays is hugely out of whack. Look after yourself. 

[Leeds Ram]

18 hours ago, TomBustler1884 said:

Never underestimate the importance of doing things just for you. If seeing your mates every now and again is your happy place, then it's just as important as anything else you have to do.

Hope you are okay, that last sentence made me worry a bit. Don't know you, but if you ever need to talk, I'm a Mental Health First Aider and would be happy to help. Problem shared and all that. 🙂

Thanks that's very kind 🙂 I'm fine just going through a bit of a rough patch atm 🙂

[Leeds Ram]

15 hours ago, Miggins said:

Take care, @Leeds Ram and I really hope you feel better soon. 2010 and I was in your position more or less. It was only a visit to the doctor that saved me. Hope that you find a route that makes you feel much better. PM me if you need a chat!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks that's very kind 🙂 I'm glad you're feeling better than you were 🙂

[Leeds Ram]

11 hours ago, i-Ram said:

I think a tremendous number of young people feel the same way. The pressure, much of it from peer groups, but also media and parental, to be seen to achieve and succeed nowadays is hugely out of whack. Look after yourself. 

Will do i-Ram 🙂 luckily my mum is great and I've got good friends at least 🙂

[Mucker1884]

A full on... blood and thunder... 50/50... 1v1... shin-threatening... DROP BALL.

 

#whatever happened to them? 🤷‍♂️

 

[ariotofmyown]

On 24/04/2023 at 08:00, Miggins said:

Milford Common (next to Shugborough Hall) is about 40 minutes from Burton. To me at the time it was huge and on a Sunday there would be about 200 cars parked on it. You can't park anywhere on it now, except the designated car park area (tarmac). I sometimes take mum there for a bit of nostalgia, although now it looks much smaller than I remember. I think we all see things as large when we are small - christmas trees, the school field, the headteacher, the garden pond, Milford Common! Whenever I've had past pupils join me for work experience they've looked around and then remarked that everything is a lot smaller than they remember! 😄

I've played cricket at Milford a few times but didn't realise the common nearby was where a lot of people would go. 

[Turk Thrust]

I miss all my mates I had in the late 60s and early 70s in Derby before I moved firstly to Brum and then to London. I also wonder what happened to all my old girlfriends

[sage]

On 27/04/2023 at 23:34, i-Ram said:

I think a tremendous number of young people feel the same way. The pressure, much of it from peer groups, but also media and parental, to be seen to achieve and succeed nowadays is hugely out of whack. Look after yourself. 

All the dead bodies found on Mount Everest were highly motivated people. No lazy buggers like me

[Steve Buckley’s Dog]

I miss games of football where people didn’t collapse to the floor as if they had been shot. Goalkeepers who could catch a ball without falling to the floor. Referees who just told them to get up. 

[Bris Vegas]

I miss the social interaction with close friends. I miss the days when social media didn’t exist and people used to go out and socialize.

I miss having fun. And having a sense of enjoying myself.

[Gee SCREAMER !!]

Jeans that fit properly.  Seemed designed nowadays to constantly need hoiking over your arse not matter the type or cost.  

[Anag Ram]

7 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Jeans that fit properly.  Seemed designed nowadays to constantly need hoiking over your arse not matter the type or cost.  

Pair I bought from Brook Taverner fit me better than any I’ve had before if that helps.

[Tamworthram]

20 hours ago, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Jeans that fit properly.  Seemed designed nowadays to constantly need hoiking over your arse not matter the type or cost.  

Mine fit me perfectly.

 

[May Contain Nuts]

The days when "shall we go to bed?" was an enticing offer rather than an invitation to lie back to back trying to get to sleep and hoping that your nasal passages aren't clogged enough to provide yet another thing to moan about come the morning.

[FindernRam]

On 30/04/2023 at 01:34, Gee SCREAMER !! said:

Jeans that fit properly.  Seemed designed nowadays to constantly need hoiking over your arse not matter the type or cost.  

Put them on. Go sit in a hot bath for an hour, They shrink to fit perfectly. 'course your bits are all Denim blue by then. Ah the sixties!

[sage]

Finding music exciting.

Hurtling from punk to new wave to 2 tone to indie in 7 or 8 years then lots of decent bands since but nothing that seemed massively new and exciting.

Maybe that's just getting old 

[Eddie]

1 hour ago, sage said:

Finding music exciting.

Hurtling from punk to new wave to 2 tone to indie in 7 or 8 years then lots of decent bands since but nothing that seemed massively new and exciting.

Maybe that's just getting old 

No, mate - just the way your brain is wired.

I fell in love with Metal before it was even called that - was fortunate enough to see Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple before they were (particularly) famous, and it's still the music for me. Not particularly sophisticated, I know, but I still love it.