u/baldur_imortal

without giving too much away, i didnt have the best childhood but i have had experiences as a child i will forever cherish. it feels like i have already hit my prime and im simply surviving living off those memories. and i know in the back of my mind that its simply impossible to reach near those levels so when something what seems really exciting is about to happen, i tell myself that while it seems very exciting and all, it will still amount to a very average experience and i then push myself and really commit to it if i want to get any fun out of it. its just one subpar experience after another.

the feeling can be compared to your parents buying you a very fancy phone as a kid with top of the line specs but then you loose it right when you reach your teenage years, and then being given a phone, i wouldnt say just good enough to make calls, but actually a decent phone but worse than your old phone in every way, the speakers sound distorted at high volumes and the screen isnt crisp enough. so whenever you take your new phone out, you get reminded of your old phone, so you dont take it out as much, and instead use your computer more because the screen there isnt as bad and doesnt hurt your eyes.

im not complaining however, it just something i have come to notice more and more, and i consider myself very privileged for everything i had as a child and for what i still have now, and i also dont think that you should be having a blast all the time. i just want to know if everyone makes peace with it or is it im making it more apparent than it is for everyone else.

growing up i loved hearing stories from my dad and being very excited whenever he would tell one. there also used to be an art teacher in my school when i was a kid who would sometimes tell us stories when she didnt feel like teaching. other teachers would tell stories from moral science books too. now i dont mean thick novels, but short little stories, a few pages long. i remember having a few of those short storybooks when i was a kid but the problem was i coudlnt read yet.

it was also extremely common for adults to tell stories to kids from time to time when people gathered together or when kids would visit them. but i dont see that happening very often anymore or maybe they still do and im just out of touch. or maybe the new generation of kids are no longer interested in the stories we grew up with and theyd rather watch whatever kids watch these days, or adults simply dont put any effort into it and theyd rather hand them a screen and be done with it.

i got recommended a video on youtube about Hatim the tv show today. he said that it was inspired from the Arabian nights but a guy named Hatim did exist around 12th century but sadly didnt have any powers like the protagonist from the show. Arabian nights which if you didnt know was in itself inspired from a fictional story or possibly historical events idk, tells a story of a Sultan whould would marry a new wife everyday and have her killed the next. one of his wives however finds a way to stay alive by tricking the sultan into not killing her by telling him stories every night and leaving a small cliff hanger so that he would keep her alive to hear the rest of it the next night, which the stories would later become the Arabian nights, which if you didnt know, is where Alladin and Ali Baba and 40 thieves come from. i remember my dad telling me this when i was a child, which made me wonder if adults still tell children stories. parents of this sub, do you tell your kids stories?