Checking voicemail?
Sure grandma, let’s get you to bed.
You know what really sucks? This hasn’t always been the way we experienced the world. Unlike the next generation, we had a small window where things were normal, where you could leave your house and bad news could wait. You could be free to be alone and as far away from everyone as you wanted.
Maybe the average person likes being connected all the time, but it has destroyed my brain, my creativity, just everything.
I held out on getting a cell phone with constant connectivity until 2019 when my wife made me get service because we were having a baby. My magic jack (and the app that came later) were enough for me. I could leave my home and experience true freedom from the world. Everyone knew I didn’t have service so no one was upset when they couldn’t reach me. It was, “hey, call me when you get home. You really need a real phone man.”
I feel like I experience no freedom whatsoever.
The best time of my life, the most creative time of my life, the most I ever read, the most I ever accomplished, I did by refusing to have cable, internet, or a phone back when I first moved out on my own. I wrote songs, short stories, tried painting, etc.
I require hours and hours of being completely uninterrupted to do anything and that just isn’t the world I live in anymore.
I’m technically gen x, but as time goes by, the more I realize I’ve always been a millennial in my soul.
As an adult, I’ve always related to people 5 years younger way easier than people 5 years older. I don’t know why.
Little inexplicable things like this just cinch it.
Do you have younger siblings? I ask because I’m the opposite. I was always the youngest- all of my siblings, cousins, and neighborhood playmates were older- and I still tend to relate to people a little older than I am better.
No, just me.
I had friends my age, of course; but when I entered the professional world, I clicked with folks a few years younger, and have since. I dunno why.
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NL dropping truth bombs.
I relate to this as a gen-z with bad social anxiety
I just got a call while sleeping and woke up to late so I couldn’t answer, don’t know the number. They didn’t leave a message and now I can’t go back to sleep, even though I could have slept another two hours. Still debating whether I should call back the number…
I have my phone set to do-not-disturb when I sleep. Only my family can get through in case of emergency.
You should not. If it’s a legitimate entity who needs something from you, they will call again, email, text, snail mail or knock on your door. If it’s a scammer they still probably will call again, but at least you won’t have marked your number as active.
In short, there’s no benefit to but some risk involved in calling back.
Funny enough posting this gave me the confidence to call them. It was a legit call but regarding sth. that already had been taken care of in the meantime.
Fair enough, good job getting it resolved.
