This might be the most beautiful comment section on all of TH-cam. Nostalgia really is something else. Thanks for all the support and sharing your stories here on this video. I had no idea so many other people felt this way. I'll return to these comments when I feel down or missing the good old days. Keep pushing forward in life boys! Also, sorry for my dog barking at 2:16 😅
Yea bro 28 aswell, i was real good at sniping and made videos and stuff early on back when it wasnt popular on an old account, got subs fast but stopped only after a few vids. I Think often about how I liked it and how exciting that time was and regret I didnt keep at it. But thats no excuse for me not to start again now! Really liked the Black ops 6 beta so might just do it for the heck of it.
Sad that you missed Cod4 by 2 years, although the first 2 weeks of MW2 was definitely the peak in the history of the CoD community, you know before everyone unlocked the dual 1887s. We're the same age, but I managed to convince my parents to get me a 360 and CoD2 as the launch title probably too young because I always got straight A's in history class and it was a "historical" game hahaha
I own my own place, have a steady job, but strangely enough my nostalgia drug is watching old Cod commentaries from my favourite TH-camrs from the Machinima era.
31 yo. Moved out. Got some new friends. Travelling every few years. Still watch COD weapon showcases while at work. Still love talking about video games like I did when I was 16.
I'm 30 now. It feels like just 5 years ago I was a freshman in high school playing MW2 with all of my best friends; pulling all nighters, gaming, doing stupid stuff. Grandparents are gone, most of the family is gone, dad is gone, moved across the country, got my own house. I don't speak to anyone from high school or college anymore. No one has time for anything and always seems to pick better options. It's crazy to think it's been 15 years since all of this. I come across nostalgia videos on Tiktok of Halloween and Christmas and think my only last real shot at experiencing this again is to have my own kids. I myself will never get to experience this as that life is LONG gone. Time flies, CoD sucks, and life ain't getting any easier. I'm 30 now but in 5 years I'll probably be 45 at this rate. Cheers to new memories, I guess.
This is how I feel as well. Everyone made the better choice than me, but part of it is my own laziness and unwillingness to just let go of the past. Having my own kids is probably the way to re-experience it and to do something with my life. At this rate I'm pretty much unwilling to do anything for anyone except myself and my family members. I'm 34 now and it's just insane how quickly I jumped up to 34 from 30. I haven't had a girlfriend in 10 years. Just honestly got tired of trying and worried that if I get married I'm going to get divorced and lose everything including my own kids
@@Rain1 That's the likely outcome of getting married. I share the same feeling and fortunately my current gf and I are on the same page of never getting married. If we do it, it's just going to be a ceremony and no government being involved so we don't have to deal with asset issues in case we ever split.
@@colefeltman638 Unfortunately they are all bums now. They are all in and out of jail or still live in their parents' garage. I'm one of 3 people in my graduating class of 100 that became successful and/or moved away from the area. College, my best friend got married and is a "happy wife, happy life" person so they never leave the house now without permission. Even if the story was different, I'm 1000 miles from where I grew up now so reconnecting wouldn't be possible.
44 here and I see a lot of 20-somethings in the comments. Believe me, the nostalgia is only going to grow stronger. Your life is going to change here quickly. Everything you think that's going to last forever.....it's not going to. Friends, girlfriends, parties, family, feeling like you have lots of time, all of that fades quickly. You're 25 and you blink and you're staring at your mid 40s. Life moves fast, and as you get older, the ride only speeds up, and you do everything you can just to hang on. Take the time to look around and really take in the moments. Enjoy the people that are around you, because you're going to start losing them. Either to lost connections or death. Look, it's not all bad here, I like my life now, but there will never be another time in your life like your youth. Please, believe me, do everything in your power to take it in and enjoy the ride. Before you know it, you'll see a movie, play a game, hear a song, etc that will be extremely bittersweet as it brings you onto that nostalgic ride of you looking back wondering where all the time went.
I just turned 24 a few days ago & this comment hit me hard as I always have a bad habit of looking ahead & doing what I can to be successful for the future. I need to slow down sometimes & learn to live in the moment. Appreciate you for sharing!
24 years old here, dad just died at age 62, 3 months ago. You don't truly feel how.. non permanent.. life is until something like that happens. I was never addicted to games but I'm annoyed that I wasted slightly more time playing games than I should have, since he passed.
I'm 25 now and this video really encapsulates how I've been feeling recently. I'm 7 months into my new "Adult" life and during my commute home from the office the other day, sitting in traffic amongst the sea of other adults doing the same, a wave of nostalgia hit me like a truck. It really does feel like just yesterday I was 11, waiting in line outside gamestop on a cold october night for BO1's midnight release. Im so thankful I got to experience all the simple things life offered back then, but at times it sucks cause things don't feel/aren't that way anymore. Your description of feeling like a kid and an adult at the same time really hit me to the core. I get sad sometimes w/ that the feeling you described..as its just evidence of my childhood finally slipping away as I make my transition into full adult hood. Wish I could just experience those things again one last time before my life shifts completely.
We are the same age. You’ve perfectly encapsulated my memories and feelings for that time period. I try to smile because it happened. I don’t want to go back, but I know it’ll never happen again. That’s okay. I’m grateful we all had the shared experiences of playing online and have retained the references and good times we all had playing together.
@@bmcanulla Glad to know I'm not the only one brother! Hope you're doing well now :) I totally agree with you. So glad I can look back and say that I got to experience those things and be a part of it.
@@DandyHippo Dragged my mom to gamestop with me LOL the worst part was always getting to the register and having the cashier read out all of the reasons why the game was RATED M for MATURE xD (MW2, GTA IV, BO1, etc.)
I went through this "transition" a few years ago when my wife and I finally packed up and moved across the country. Prior to that, and pre 2020, I basically had this extreme attachment to my childhood memories and experiences. I fought so hard to not let go of my youth because I didn't know who I would be on the other side. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, beautiful at times. However I no longer live there in my mind. It's a place I visit from time to time...but my entire goal in my 30s has been creating new experiences, learning new things, and stepping outside of my comfort zone. Life TRULY is what you make it, no matter the age. If you choose to succumb to routine, your life will just pass you by. I don't care what you do...never stop learning. Live a full life. Loved the vibe of this video. You've earned a subscriber.
Thanks for the support, glad you have a healthy view of nostalgia and are striving to create new experiences! it's something i'm trying to improve at. I'm a fan of your content!
This is great advice!! 25 here and feel the same way about getting sucked into the mundane, 9-5 lifestyle. It's easy to get depressed and overwhelmed if you aren't careful. Living outside of my comfort zone and trying new things has been a big part of my life lately, and it feels good knowing others value that as well. Cheers
What's helped me feel less like I'm letting go of my childhood is passing along the things I enjoyed to my nephews and seeing them genuinely enjoy it. For me it's not necessarily watching them get into the exact same games, but seeing them enjoy gaming as a whole and be able to experience that alongside my nephews has been something I value a lot, and feel I kinda needed in order to heal my inner-child. For me I just hope the "adult on the other side" is the same kind of adults that got me into gaming in the first place, who were calm and gentle when teaching me how to play. Even better if they have siblings or cousins to play against so they can be competitive
33 years old and feel this. You never know how good you had it until it is gone. That is nostalgia. But that does not mean the best days are behind you! It means we never realize such great moments of happiness in our life until looking back. But never stop looking forward with optimism boys! Set one goal each day, and accomplish it! No matter how big or small the goal is, the point is, you finished and accomplished it! That is the key. I miss hearing all of us in the MW2 pregame lobbies when everyones mics were plugged in and no one was in party chats. And you played the same people over and over again as long as no one left the lobby.The trash talk and competitiveness was wild and unfiltered. And WE LOVED IT!
I’m 25 and this hit deep. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and I just can’t let go of my past. Watching TH-cam videos about some of my favorite childhood games and replaying them over and over is the only thing I have left of experiencing my childhood again. I lost my best friend and the rest of my childhood friends and I went our separate ways. Most of my family is thankfully still here but who knows for how much longer. It really is such a bittersweet feeling thinking of the good times. I just hope I’ll be able to make some more good times in the future.
Your explanation on how our perception of time changes as we grow older is really spot on. An example of how I realized this was just from seeing how fast kids around me grow up. Like I’m only 25 now and when I was a kid some of my older family members whenever I saw them in person after not seeing them for a while would always get emotional and say things like ”your growing up too fast” and of course I didn’t understand what that meant at the time. Now just recently I saw my cousins daughter who’s just starting middle school. I remember seeing her at the hospital when she was born, playing with her when she was just a kid, and when I saw her just recently I couldn’t even recognize her at first, I asked my cousin who’s that girl over there, he said “that’s my daughter bro” and I actually stared crying and when she came up to hug me she started crying too lol. That little girl that I remember is long gone now. Time can be a really cruel bastard sometimes.
Wow, I’m also a 27 year old wracked with nostalgia about old CoD games and memories, among other things. This channel should be a fun ride, excited to hop on!
It really is scary how fast your 20s fly by compared to your childhood. It felt like I experienced everything as a kid and had all the time in the world. Now as a working 9-5 adult, every moment of free time I get is gone in a second on to the next day. A fear of mine is waking up at 60 years old and not being able to recapture where the time went or what I’ve done with my life. It’s honestly depressing to feel like nothing seems to grab my enjoyment or attention now.
You need to leave your comfort zone and do something that will help chip you a way out of the matrix so you aren’t stuck in the mundane 9-5. Find a side hustle to make money in whatever little free time you do have, so that you can eventually supplement your income enough to break free from a job and start living life with true freedom again, just like when we were children. Then you can begin to have new experiences which will seemingly slow down the passage of time. The goal is to create new memories from those new experiences.
I’ve always thought about this but I’m 20. I feel like as a kid we aren’t aware to how much/little time is to come and we just lived in the moment. We were making memories nearly every day even if it was the littlest thing. Then life hits you and now all you can think about is anything but the present and your wondering how tomorrows gonna go/ the next week and boom.. it’s that time. And while you were passing that time you were thinking about how action packed and how care free your childhood used to be.
Have you ever seen that episode of Ed Edd n Eddy where Ed wakes one day as a very old man in complete disarray because he couldn't believe he was old and thought he was still a kid? That episode still haunts me to this day, and reminds me to not let life just pass me by. Well, I try to not let it, at least.
Just turned 30 last month and the day was just filled with me looking back on the last 10 years and wondering what the heck have I even accomplished. But nostalgia is a hell of a thing. It makes me think that my childhood and school life was better than it actually was, but it was just riddled with anxiety and depression, bullies, and... crazy girls. Maybe that... action, itself, is what I miss, the craziness feeling like adventure. But I still can't help but feel like it was the good ol' days. The video games were magical back then, too. I used them to escape from the real world because of how hectic it was for me. All I can say is that it's important to live in the moment. Like the cliche says, we need to make sure we're living life to the fullest. A better version of yourself may yet await in the future, and more great memories are yet to be made. We just got to make sure we're not blinded by nostalgia enough to miss what's happening in the current moment, because you just might be making more memories that you're going to be nostalgic about in the future and not even realize it.
Chiming in as a late 30's gamer and multi-time Dad. I'm just gonna let you know - the nostalgia doesn't go away. Even when you have a family, a career and a home, etc. It might sound crazy, but the older I get the more vivid and powerful the nostalgic feelings are actually becoming. With more real life responsibilities, the youthful activities and the hobbies I loved and enjoyed have become more scarce and more spaced out. So, when I stumble into a feeling of nostalgia, it quite literally hits different. It can often be entirely consuming for the brief moments that it's there as well. My advice for those younger than I am - enjoy the times while they last and do your best to be present in the moment with whatever activity you're partaking in and enjoying. And particularly the people you're there with. More often than not nostalgia is linked to shared memories, hobbies and activities. And those fond memories are so truly wonderful because of the people you were with at the time and how those people made you feel.
I think nostalgia is just a natural part of how our brain works. We tend to only remember the good parts of the past, and easily forget the bad ones. With that being said, life is a kid/teen definitely was better than it is now for me. I was pretty "successful", managed to enter a top university and get a Master's degree and my parents had enough money to help me buy an apartment. I also worked part time during my studies. However, life after my degree have been rough, its still a nightmare to get a job. The job market today is awful, you need to apply to 50 -100 jobs on average to land a decent job, and most entry level jobs now requires several years of experience. Its just stupid, but it is supply and demand. The companies get over 100 applicants a SINGLE DAY after their job posting. They can choose what they want. I'm into economics/finance but I know its the same for engineering as well for instance. Everything today is just bad, gaming sucks now, sports isn't the same as it was, everything is just soulless coorporate greed now. The dating market is awful now, but still most people actually meet their partner online today, not irl. I don't think I want to have kids at this point, just don't want them to suffer and have to join the rat race. It's not worth it, whats the damn point in it?
Just turned 33 and 80 % of my life is wallowing in nostalgia. I listen to the music I listened to in 2002-2012 and actually teach at the same school I went to as a kid. Think about past relationships and places I lived in. How happy it feels now even though I know there were hard times and nothing felt that special when it happened really, just now later.
Damn this video hits hard... I’m 30 now and spent much of my teenage years gaming and creating content. I even landed a job in the gaming industry, moved to a new country, and got married. Unfortunately, I also lost my mom. Life is tough, especially with the current economic challenges. Stress seems to be mounting year after year, and gaming doesn’t bring the same joy it used to. I often wish I could go back in time and relive those days. Take care, everyone.
@@TheWorkshop190 hard to say that when you have obligations, need to earn money and this kind of stuff. not everyone has rich parents and can afford to travel around. stop saying some mean BS
I did an experiment with myself one time involving nostalgia. I used to work as a sushi restaurant when I was younger. It was a fine job, I enjoyed it well enough, but it was nothing remarkable. I liked my coworkers and my boss but it wasn't like some really exciting job that I was always looking forward to doing. I knew I was only going to work there for one year before I began college, and I told my boss that when I began. After eleven months, I reminded my boss I would be leaving in a few weeks, and he said that was okay. In the last little bit of time I was working there, I challenged myself to take stock of exactly how I was feeling and what I was thinking one night while I was at work, and I said well I'm feeling alright, I'm fairly happy, but there's definitely things I'd rather be doing. Nothing about this situation stands out as especially good, but it's satisfactory and I feel good. I said watch I bet in a few months or a year when I'm working somewhere else or back at school or whatever, I'll think back to working at the sushi restaurant and feel a sense of nostalgia and longing for it like it was "the good old days." And sure enough about nine or ten months later, I was riding the bus through the neighborhood where the restaurant was in and I felt that sensation. And I said to myself see, I knew it, but remember when I did that experiment? Often times nostalgia happens because we remember things more fondly than they may have even been. Good times become great times in our minds, and even great times become legendary life defining moments. And even those moments that ARE truly legendary to us, we forget that we're making new memories like that all the time, it's always happening to us, we just don't realize it in real time.
Bro I think that you are so right, never done that experiment tho but when being hit by nostalgia I’m always asking myself « why was it so better back then » and can rarely answer the question . I even have nostalgia for « bad » moments sometimes so yeah. Nostalgia really is a weird thing lol
@@Pismice You're right. I've had nostaglia for bad moments too. I read about a study one time about why people can enjoy watching a movie or a television show they've seen many times already, and one of the takeaways was that there's something cathartic or even therapeutic about knowing how something ends. When you know what the ending is, it gives you a subconscious sense of comfort. I think that applies to nostalgia as well. Because you already know that you were okay and you made it through a certain period of time, and there's no uncertainty, it makes you want to go back to it.
Oh wow! Yep sounds about right. I'm currently travelling the world. And i reminisce about when i was travelling Australia. We romanticise the past. It's just about becoming present and enjoying the Now. Super powerful book that talks about THIS. It's called The Power of Now. Changed my life.
Yes, I think you are correct that we have a blindness of joy in the moment. We humans are very bad at living in the present and being mindful. We are always stuck in the past or the future and tend to ignore the only thing we will ever have, which is the present moment. I do think part of this comes down to surviving a situation. When I worked minimum wage I absolutely hated it. Now when I look back after working in corporate for a few years, I find myself missing that old retail store because I can see now just how clearly everything worked out. Back then, the future was much less clear and more hazy, so it made me anxious and not enjoy the present. Once I made it out, suddenly I realize "hey, that was actually not that bad". But we also tend to forget the bad moments of the past or at the very least, minimize them. I also realize how much more communal and friendly it was. We all had each other's backs working the registers. We would talk throughout the day about each other's lives and struggles, and people bond through that stuff. But in the corporate tech world, people tend to be isolated in their cubicles. I barely knew my coworkers in corporate even though I worked their longer than retail. People felt much more shifty, although that is likely just my perception from limited contact. I think that's something I miss the most about being in school and working an hourly job.
This is so true, I got stuck wanting to be gaming all day everyday and got way too comfortable, now I’m 26 and scared as shit to go out and try working some shit job I don’t want, wish me luck
Same thing happened to me man, about to turn 26. I feel like not having a job during lockdown really made it easy to stay where I was at. I feel you, I struggled with that fear so much. Was like consumed by it. I've only been out of the house for like a bit over a year, the shit can be hard but it feels really good to face that fear head on. Just feels different being out in the world again. It's hard, but I mean different in a good way. Scrolling job postings looking for things to apply to sometimes feels really hellish haha, but the experience of actually being at whatever job is totally different than that once you get there. I've thought about whether I wasted my time, but honestly I just don't think I was ready yet, and I feel like that's okay. Good luck! You're not late to anything, it's your life!
Nostalgia hit me hard today. Im also 27 and cant get passed the thoughts of the past. I still play Battlefield 3 on my xbox since 2012 and Im still looking for that spark i had as a kid. Its truly difficult to grasp my purpose in life now since I have very little time and i have to keep up with the bills. Beautiful video🔥
I found this channel today and watched a few videos on the importance and navigation of your 20s. These are good to hear that no one knows what they're doing and everyone wings life and figures it all out on the way. Im 20, junior in college(Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering), and im stressed from all of what is happening around me, and i feel sorta lost. But these vids make me feel like im actually making progress in my life. I just struggle with relationships and feel like it would fill a huge hole in my life. These vids make me feel that everything will be ok and i just have to wait for life to come at me.
Everyone is winging it in life! That's one thing I learned as I got older. When i was young I used to think everyone understands what's going on, i couldn't have been more wrong haha. You have a very challenging yet valuable major! Keep pushing forward in school and life and eventually you will find the right people. Give it time
I am pretty much in the same situation as you. 20 yo, mechanical engineering, trying to balance school, work, physical activity and realtionships lol. I think about what the hell im gonna do pretty much all day
You both are in a way better spot than a lot of people! Keep focusing on yourself and the relationships will build, just make sure yall get to know the person well. Keep it up my dudes
Mate, im 28 with Chronic heath issues, still living in my teenage room with no real prospects of things improving. I found God and it keeps me Nourished. Its still hard but the weight of the world is lighter now. You're in a beautiful stage of life, uncertainty is a challenge and I garuntee you, you will look back after things settle down that it was a good moment in life as you overcame it. God Bless Brother Goodluck and keep grinding.
I found this channel couple videos ago and I don't really leave comments but on videos but I feel compelled to tell you that I really admire you. I've watched a lot of videos on the topics you have discussed and you truly stand out to me. I really like the positive and calm way you go about talking about things, you seem super genuine, you don't bring anyone else down with your words to prove a point but above all you seem like more of a human and less of a 'content creator'. With you it truly feels like you are someone I can relate to, and therefore I feel compelled to listen to what you say. I agree with a lot of what you say but also learn a lot from you. You are the type of person that I wish I had in my life that I could be around more often as I know being around someone like you would be super beneficial for anyone, and anyone who does have you in their lives are probably super grateful. I'm a 22 year old still navigating things and it's super awesome to take in all the advice, encouragement and general positivity that you share. Keep doing what you're doing bro it's awesome!
I was 21 when Mw2 came out, I'm 35 now. God I miss the old days. I played this game all day everyday for 6-7 years, smoked a shit load of weed and wouldnt change it for the world. Some of the best days of my life.
This video came at such a crucial time in my life. Getting married next week and moving out of my parent’s place with just 3 months after quitting my job and becoming an entrepreneur. Lately, life has felt so overwhelming to the point where I don’t feel like getting out of bed and I remember these times when we were 12 playing CoD and only worrying about our K/D and playing with friends. Great video and I really appreciate these words.
I'm 29 and can really feel the accelerating passage of time, I think the best way to slow this down is to make the most out of your vacation time if you have the means, go to as many new places as possible to keep creating those novel experiences that will stick with you.
After a rough breakup of a 5 year relationship I ended up spending 2 years doing nothing but smoking weed, drinking, and watching TV or playing video games everyday. That was the fastest 2 years of my life. It felt like I blinked and two whole years had passed.
Another facet of this video and growing up is the “what you’re supposed to do” things of life. The moving out, getting the car, the family, the nice job, etc etc.. which is also a linear rail in which we are ALL expected to do, what society expects of us. We are all essentially carbon copies of each other except for the individualised experiences that we obtain along the way… and then you find out others have done these things too. Whatever you do in life, finding YOUR happiness is the most important thing. Childhood nostalgia is often where we were our happiest so that’s why a lot of us cling to it, and the remnants of it as we grow up.
You’ve done what many cannot: leave the comfort behind to forge your future. And like you said, that doesn’t mean leaving it always. I have a friend who is so addicted to the comfort of this nostalgia (primarily world of Warcraft) that he is doing nothing with his life… we are both 30 now- I stopped playing years ago but still enjoy a game of other titles in the evening. However he plays from about 2pm until 6am the following morning… I believe there are many who are like this. A tip for your memories… take pictures! When you have moments that you enjoy, take a picture… it could be the smallest thing. But you will realise that you really do a lot in a year, and there’s much joy to be had! Never lose that inner child, and find that balance. But don’t waste away in the nostalgia of the past
Just turned 30, and have a 6 month old son. The end of the wife's pregnancy and these last 6 months have been the worst of my life. Everything I enjoyed is gone. No time to play any video games, barely enough time to get done all the things I don't want to do. The worst part is I knew that the 2008-2014 gaming of when I was 14 to 20 was going to be the best days of my life. Playing Ark with a group of friends every day for 10+ hours, friends I don't even talk to anymore. Halo 3 with a rotation of almost everyone in my class. Forza motorsport 4 until the sun came up with my best friend, just doing 50+ lap races on maple valley and talking about everything. We're both too busy to talk let alone game together now. I miss it all so much. Nostalgia isn't a strong enough word. When I see old COD footage like this it makes me want to cry I miss those times so much. I get a pit in my stomach. I even fired up my 360 and got a month of xbox live to play some old games around a year ago. It was just like the old days with people playing still. Just as fun as I remember, more fun than I have had on a modern game in years.
I'm going to write you something, because I know your situation and how you feel. It's just advice, and you choose what to make of it. First off, congrats on your son. That's a big milestone for you. It's crazy how the free time just evaporates, isn't it? That part can suck. I'd ask that you please do your best not to project what you feel onto your son. The world needs more good parents, those who can give more time than they have in their day to their kids. They deserve it. And you deserve free time. Even though it will never be like it was, I hope you know that the trade off you are making is priceles. There will be so many moments of joy, the kind that millions of people miss out on and don't even know it, if you choose to be an active and engaged parent. I wouldn't trade the memories I have with my kids for any opportunity to relive my nostalgic past. Never. What I did to fix the free time issue: trained myself to be an early riser. I never was before, and it took a lot of trial and error, but now I'm up at 5am everyday, 2 hours before the household. This does mean I'm asleep by 9pm every night, but it's worth it. The morning is my space to be myself and that time is mine to do whatever I choose. I don't know your situation, but if you can talk with your partner and establish your need for something similar, for your mental health and wellbeing, I'd highly recommend it. The last thing you want is to become a depressed wreck, resenting the world and your loved ones, wondering if continuing another day is even worth the effort, just because you feel trapped and unable to breathe. Please, trust me on that one. Even if you can only carve out an hour, or 30-miutes, in your day you should do it. Best of luck.
@PunkerNinetySix I appreciate that. Already get up at 5 for work, been working 50+ hours a week just to get by. I do usually stay up as late as possible Friday nights playing something but it's barely enjoyable because I'd rather just get some rest. Weekends are just work for no pay trying to get caught up around the house. I'm so looking forward to winter. No more mowing grass and family get togethers. Just quality inside time.
Hope you're doing okay man. I don't think you're a "fallen soldier" or anything like that; you're a man now, doing man stuff. Kids change your life forever and are a wonderful blessing, and require a lot of TLC, but so do you! I'm in my late 20''s with a 3yo and 6mo btw. My advice is to game plan with your partner, carve out some "me time" for you both. Find out what time works for you guys and support each other in achieving your "me time". When it's my wife's personal time I know I'm in charge of the kiddoes and vice versa. I say all this because "you can't give water from an empty bucket", and that sounds like where you're at (I know you'll scoff at this but it won't last forever either!). Best
I’m 28, turning 29 in less than a week from now. Can’t say I completely agree, but I hear you and deeply resonate with most of what you’re saying! It’s a weird time in life, because up until recently most of our lives have pretty much been choreographed by parents and other elders in society. Most things that happen in our lives from here on out are largely down to decisions we’ll be making. It’s a bit bittersweet and daunting, but I guess we’ll do our best!
For me it was when my dad passed away due to suicide. After that I stopped gaming, stopped doing a lot of things that once meant a lot to me. I spent a couple years just reflecting, it felt like time just froze and nothing mattered. If my life were a book then it would be a duology. The first book has been written and now the second one has started.
The MW3 nostalgia times really got me. Everyday coming out of high-school, straight to my room turning on my xbox360 to play all day with my friends and classmates. Every day, every week, every month of the year. 2011 and 2012, you were amazing.
I Just got your Video recommended. Im 29 years old and often think about my childhood. It was Just a golden Time and i really Miss it. Life is Short and you need to Make the Best of it. I wish you all the Best in your Future. I Just subbed now.
I’m 28 and this really resonates with me as well. I’ve been living away from home for that last 4 years and I’ve feeling existential about my life before moving away for work. How things are different and just never will be the same. I miss the life I used to have and how it felt like there was endless possibilities. And also coming to terms with the fact that life just keeps going, it morphs and changes completely over many years. It makes me sad to think that who i am and the life i have will one day be completely unrecognizable from the one i was leading when I was 21. It feels like I’m at a bridge between two lives and can’t just move on. Its scary. My only solace is that we just need to take these changes with grace. Accept it for what it is. And make positive decisions to ensure your present and future is setup for success and happiness. Stay open minded. Invest yourself into new relationships and opportunities that you have. Very few things about your present reality are garunteed to be forever. So enjoy the present and don’t lose yourself over the past.
All of us around the 25 up to 28 we really feel this video cause we were kids playing such great games and we just miss the nostalgia because we want to go back and do more than we did I accepted my childhood was over at 25 and that was TUFF but it's a beautiful thing because all those people you played with even if you don't know them they probably have a full family good career happy life and that is what is beautiful about the end of nostalgia because why would you ever want to be stuck in one part of you're life that is not living that's dwelling this is my first time watching you and all I got to say is god bless bro cause this video was real💯
@@Cosmo_P0litan being a child at heart is what keeps the memories of you're childhood alive it definitely sucks we can't turn on the xbox 360 after school or playing outside and actually enjoy playing the game almost so much it's like we got lost in it now that we have bills and responsibilities we can only enjoy the game for a couple hours at most shit truly does suck but I found that if you dwell on good memories it makes the nostalgia sad instead of something beautiful man I wish we could all of just stayed kids a little longer 💯
@@DamnMarcus Why as kids? Being a kid, you have restrictions and rules to deal with. I would much rather return to high school and be a teenager again. It's all subjective, but for me, those were some of the best times in my life. It's almost like being a kid except you drive cars, stay up late, gather and go out, girls grew nice t1ts and @$$es... SOOOOO beats being a kid.
I love his video and you found something that I realised only at a much older age. In terms of getting novelty as we get older, I have been trying to use our "been there, done that" to my advantage. Instead of dismissing a familiar situation as "same old, same old", I try to force myself to see what is unique in these moments. This helps me get anchored to the present moment and makes life a lot more juicy. I'm definitely not an expert, but I'm getting better every day. I wish you all the best, my friend!
This awesome video reminds me of a quote I was shown when I was feeling really down about how life started to get very mechanical and repetitive, creativity suck hit me hard as I didn't have time, or the energy as life took hold of me. "Life is a series of little deaths, out of which life always returns" - Charles Fieldelson Jr. Truth is you are never meant to stay the same, or do the same things. Here is another way to think about this... "At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it"
As a 20 year old in college right now, your videos really do help put things in perspective for me. They serve as a source of inspiration for my later 20s. Please keep up the good work, these are very high quality videos for a channel that is just beginning to thrive.
Last year I did reminisce about the era of my childhood, and while it was great for a little while, this eventually ended up in me spiraling into a deep depression. It was the worst time in my life.
31 years old and this is the exact video I needed. I recently had to clean out my parents house and the nostalgia hit me like a brick wall. Being in the house I grew up in, remembering all the great times in MW1, Halo 3, and being a kid for some reason really hits hard. I look bad sometimes and think man I was such an A-Hole. I could have studied harder, I could have worked out more, I could have had better looking girls, but you know what? I had a great time at least and my life has worked out and I’ve been able to build a life that fulfills me. Anyway, great video, you just earned a new subscriber! Cheers.
This one hit home man. 27 years old and growing up in the middle of MW2. Nostalgia is powerful indeed! What I wouldn’t give to go back to those worry free times.
Hey man, you've made me realise all my nostalgia and regret in the past about not making more youtube videos on my old account back when it new is no excuse not to do it now. I still think about doing youtube to this day 14 years later so there MUST be something there thats important to me. I'm thinking of just making some fun videos that id want to watch on cod bo6, talkn shit, raging out at the sweats and just uploading it for the fun of it like I would have in 2010. I suffer from chronic health issues so my life hasnt moved on much since I was 16 still in my old room etc at 28, but again, thats no excuse to feel sad and like its not worth it to start doing things i found fun as a teen now! God Bless brother.
If it's a passion of yours I think it's important to give a fair and honest investment into it and give yourself a time frame of 1-2 years to see some growth. You don't need to "make it" in that time frame but you should atleast see if there's any growth. Actively refining the basic skills to content create and not creating corners is the key just as you do for anything else in life. Give yourself an honest try and you might make your passion a career. Give it a shot Will! Go invest in a setup and just make yourself proficient! ❤
Same here man, Due to health circumstances, my cherished memories were that of playing CoD and GTA 5 throughout my teens and 20s. And those memories are extra special for me!
21 here and having grown up with video games since I was basically a toddler and having found myself in this cod4, mw2 rabbit hole today, this really is a perfect encapsulation of, I believe, most people's experience in our time with coming of age and so on. The amount of stress many of us have to deal with concerning money, personal relationships, school and work, oftentimes alone, can be very exhausting emotionally.
I can still remember my positive conversations online and outside interactions from the early 2000s. I despise now myself but I feel my younger self would’ve been destroyed and disappointed in my current me. I guess I carry on for not disappointing the innocent happy child thinking that his dreams will become a reality.
This video brought me back to the days of Seananners commentary vids. Don't worry man even my 60 year old father still tells me he feels like a child and still plays video games and enjoys life just like when he was younger. Just because you have more responsibility doesn't mean you have to give up your childhood for that. Don't watch yourself turn into a miserable old man, because we are all children of God. Enjoy the time you have, life's too short to be worried and stressed all the time.
Currently 26 realizing my life was never really what I thought it was. My perception of the world has changed so much I can never go back to that place. Even if I could it wouldn’t be the same. Hard to accept the only path is forward.
Dude I just wrenched listening to this. I’m one year younger than you aged 26 and im in an identical position to you in life, career, gf, moving out, the lot. My heart yearns for these days, the nostalgia compared to how mundane life is today has been consuming me since I was around 20 & its honestly pretty depressing, I think i also cling onto those days as my dad hadnt been taken from cancer until 2014. I hope to find a way to deal with this emotion sometime soon because its honestly unbearable.
I turned 30 last month. I am engaged and we have a 10 month old daughter. Life is going well, but I can’t help myself from looking for nostalgia. Installing old games, only to stop playing them after 30 minutes. Probably because none of the people I played with, are still around playing that. Lately I’ve been looking for a house in my old childhood village. For some reason I am really drawn to living there again. Is it nostalgia of a simpler life, or will it really improve my life? I have yet to find out. Thanks for this video and this comment section. It’s good to see that I am not alone struggling with these thoughts of past days.
I think that's probably the hardest part. The people that were around you playing the games with you are too busy or no longer around anymore. Moved on in life and don't play anymore. Don't talk anymore. A combination of many of things like that.
I’m 25 years old and feel the same. I work in the ICU and am surrounded by death which adds to my fear of accepting my place as an adult and aging. It feels weird and I usually escape with nostalgia. I am still figuring things out, but what has helped me is dealing with the emotion and fear instead of escaping. It’s scary and really uncomfortable, but it’s been helping me cope. You’re not alone with how you feel, and we will get through it. One day we will miss our 20s just like how we miss our childhoods and the “simple days”. It’s an honor to be able to be alive and even age. I need to remember that sometimes. Peace brother
love that graph about perception of time speeding up as we get older. another way to think of it is a year when you’re 8 is 1/8 of your entire life and at 25 it’s only 1/25. And that logic can be applied to any length of time…Months, weeks, days too. Time quite literally does move faster the longer we live. And I feel like subconsciously we’re always aware of it.
I’m 27 too and I still watch my Gaming Edits back-to give me a hit of nostalgia, back to when I had big dreams, back to when everything was so simple, my only worry was being better then my IRL’s and the online mates I played with. I dragged that out so long that I went to uni and competitively grinded fornite and made some edits before I graduated and got a full time job. My ego has been recalibrating and letting go the big dreams of being a CoD/FN pro that I once had, accepting I work a 9-5 like the rest of the drones I know. Ironic, isn’t it? Your parents tell you to chase your dreams as you’re growing up but when it comes to it they would rather you be secure with a normal path to a job because the risk is too high. All I can do now is embrace stoicism and setup a foundation to enable my future kids to achieve their dreams before they get thrown into the corporate cesspit or destroy their back working manual labour. Dreams and creativity is all they will have when AI and robotics replace the workforce.
Great comments and explains Nostalgia so well. 32 here and I can resonate with most of what you have said. Each day just blends into the next and the next thing you know, life's changed. Time sucks. Live life the best way you can.
2:00 and this is great, you’re tapping into topics i’ve been thinking a LOT about but haven’t found the words to describe them. Days blending into each other, the good old days where one day seemed so nostalgic and long enduring, like the bike ride home in the cold weather felt different than the car ride (which you dreamed about driving yourself) to your now new home.
I’m 35, married, have a full time job and I’m responsible, I do home tasks, cook, etc. But I never lost my “younger me”, I love playing videogames although it’s not the same as before, mostly because now I have no friends. When I’m with my parents I still feel that I’m their little kid. I have big nostalgia and miss those days but the only thing we can do is to enjoy life and don’t waste time. Do what you love and be with the people you love, enjoy every moment of it!
Man I just turned 26 in a similar boat, good career so far, still at my parents and in the next stage of my life where things like video games don't feel the same anymore. For me MW and MW2 are my goats for COD, accepting the new responsibility and pursuing new adventures in life can definitely slow down the time and help get through some of the monotony when working for an employer.
Hi mate, im a French Guy. I never post any comment but its fantastic how i recognize myself in you. Im also a 27yo man and i have the exact same feeling of nostaligia and the research of balance between the nostalgia and the future. Because time fly very fast, i have a girlfriend, a job but not much friends. By the time it was like I was a part of a big community and Even if it was not friendly all the time during the game, it was a community. And i miss it. I realise now the importance of my mom, who was taking care of everything. Thanks a lot for your video bro !
Same situation here bro. A gf and not many friends, connections just slipped by, cant control it. You lose people along the way and takes too much effort to get back.
I think a big part of it is just that when ur 10 a single years worth of memories is 10 percent of your life. But when your 20 its only 5%. I remember being in K-6 elementary school feeling like it was never gonna end. When i finally went to junior high (grades 7-9) high school still felt very far away but i started to feel the passage of time. High school I only lasted until grade 11 before i started to fill it all slipping away, my childhood. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, i knew that soon highschool was gonna end and everyone i knew up to that point was gonna go their separate ways. I kept the same friend circle from K to 12 but now it was all going away along with my childhood. University i barely even remember it feels like a blip, the friends i made there feel like acquaintances and the memories of experiences i had there dont have the same sheen as memories from my K-11 years. I truly think that sometime in grade 11 my childhood ended.
When you are a kid, you dream of the freedom you will gain as an adult. When you enter adulthood, you then realise childhood was freedom. You are now bogged down by your job and other responsibilities. I am at this stage now. I'm turning 24 soon and currently training to become a teacher. I only began the course two weeks ago, but I have already seen my free time disappear. I will always envy the times I had during high school and the sheer number of hours I had to game with my friends.
31 here. Since the days of og MW2 ended I’ve switched to PC, moved out of my parents house, got an AA degree, completed an enlistment in the Marine Corps., got married, got a BFA, became an animator, grays are popping up more frequently on my head and in my beard, friends and relatives have died… a lot has happened since then. One of the casualties of me making those steps was losing my passion for gaming. I still game once in a while with my real friends, but my gaming has almost completely stopped and pretty much every friend from my PSN era has moved on same as me. We must accept nostalgia as part of life but not get lost in it. Most days I do not think much of the glory days of gaming. I do get lost in the routine - which I try to break when I can. I try to remind myself more glory days are ahead - kids, a great job, a nice friend group, ect ect. They’re wrapped up in the stages of our lives that can never be replicated later. Enjoy the now and be glad the past happened.
I'm sitting here watching this at 17, 10 years younger than you. It's so strange how I have nostalgia for when I was even 12 years old, which was only 5 years ago. It doesn't feel like it was very long ago, but at the same time I've changed so much. Anyway, I am still in my childhood and I want to enjoy it as much as possible.
we're the same age and yeah we're definitely getting older but there's a couple more years of us being a teenager so maybe lets not worry about the old times yet and just create new experiences
i’m 25 years old and this video just hits.. man thank you for those words sometimes it’s nice to hear other people talk about similar feelings i’m facing as well. feels nice to know i’m not the only one.. remember to stay strong guys !
I don't think it's even nostalgia it's the lack of quality in gaming. All devs seem super lazy and the games reflect that. They care more about skins than the quality of gameplay. It's just made for a completely new audience the originals never intended on hitting
While I DO indeed think its nostalgia, you’re totally right about the industry as a whole. Live service games existed on PC for a long time, but the concept really took over the whole of the gaming industry, to the point where companies put most of their emphasis on the model of micro-transactions. It’s less about putting their best foot forward into making the customer happy, and more about hooking the customer and milking them over a set period of time; this feels like they never really try to offer us something stellar. Don’t get me wrong, there are still good gaming experiences out there. But I agree with you that the industry has changed and gems are rarer than they were.
I really appreciate this video man, you described how I feel perfectly. I am 25 now. I can remember being 10 years old playing MW2 like it was yesterday. This video helped me realize there's many people out there who feel the same way. Cheers man, and best of luck to you!
This video really hit me and reminded me how I always feel I’m 29 and honestly it makes me feel sad knowing how amazing life was as kids and honestly how depressing it gets as it goes on .
2:06 100% - After school and when you begin to stop partying and settle down and have responsibilities, the “friends” you used to have that have no responsibilities just dwindle away, as if you never even knew them.
You have hit the nail on the head, it's almost as if you spoke my mind. I needed to hear this right now, as it's comforting to me knowing I'm not going through these emotions alone. It's quite crazy how relatable your words are with me. I'm a very sentimental 28-year-old who has a lot of nostalgia for my peak gaming era (2007-2014), I often think about it and the nostalgia hits hard, but especially right now, as I'm currently going through a lot of significant changes in my life, such as moving out from my parents home and into a property with my girlfriend. I'm anxious and excited, as there's things to look forward to, but it's a trigger for nostalgia. I took a moment in my bedroom earlier to reflect because so many significant memories happened in here, particularly to do with gaming, as most of the golden era happened here. It felt like bittersweet farewell to that chapter of my life, but not a farewell to gaming overall, as even though I game less these days due to adult responsibilities taking up a lot of my time and energy, I will always be a gamer.
I feel exactly the same, I’m only 20 but the past few weeks I’ve spent more time in my room again as I used to when I was in my early teens ( majority of my teens really) and I’ve come to realise I’ve felt really nostalgic from little things from looking down stairs and it being dark at night, to just walking to the bathroom from my bedroom and for some reason it just feels like I want to relive them moments.
I also don’t want to move out right now as I have younger brothers and yes now they are reaching their teens or even halfway thru with one but I feel like I wouldn’t see them even 75% as much as I do now and I don’t want to miss that
ooo I remember those walks downstairs, when I was younger my xbox 360 was down there. When i'd turn it off and the lights off to go to bed, I'd always sprint up the stairs for no reason 😂
I did not expect to find a random MW2 commentary in the algo in 2024 that somehow aligns perfectly with the thoughts I had this week, crazy. Glad I'm not alone, we're all in this boat together. Letting your inner child out once in a while is a great motivator to do cool shit, I find that being curious is really all it takes. Thanks for this vid man
Im 24, lost my mother few weeks ago died of cancer, and nostalgia now hits 10 times harder than before and i miss those good old days 20 times more. I get you when you said the death of your grandparents is an end of an era, it really is. Nothing is life changing more than a death of a parent. R.I.P to my mom and your grandparents 😢
Same.. we were busy experiencing the games. Now, I think our minds are constantly judging and comparing them. I do think games then were better, but our perception plays a role too. It is more difficult to enter the moment now days. That's our battle.
I turned 24 yesterday, I started playing cod very early, started with cod4 at my cousins house every wednesday after school, then got a PS3 myself and bought MW2, prob my n°1 cod along with BO1, I really REALLY miss those times, especially BO1 times for some reason.. now let’s not get into the shitshow that my life is, bus great video, earned a sub
I'm 26 rn and you really struck a cord in me, time passes and we can't do anything about it, but we do decide what to do with it, so might as well make the most of every moment That was a beautiful introspection brother, I'll make sure to watch more of your videos, all the best
Sadly, I'm 35 and I'm still a child in a bad sense. I never had a real job or an education. I never had a girlfriend or friends. I still live at home. I don't have any money. Adult life sucks.
I hear that brother. Adult life sucks and what you’re going through is common. It’s not that adult life sucks, it’s that no one told us what we would have to do/prepare for. One thing I guarantee would help you is setting a goal and working backwards. Adult life sucks, but ask yourself, what specifically sucks? What do you need to do change that and what are small steps we can take to get there. My goal is to make everyday better than the next, and while it’s tough, it’s possible but it comes down to a mindset. Goodluck with everything but just seeing you take to the comments shows that you’re acknowledging where you’re at right now and that you have room for improvement. Day by day brother!
I still play games and I don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as I used to when I was playing the old cod games. Except from a few games over the years I've always been craving the feeling and nostalgia they gave me. Friends don't seem interested in trying to go back and play older games, gaming is so competitive and unenjoyable now.
I got 2 nukes in one day on MW2 and I don’t think I ever got a nuke after that. First one on Favela and second on the snow map with the train. That was a decade ago or so and I remember it like it was yesterday.
Childhood nostalgia gets real strong in the late 20s into early to mid 30s. My unsolicited advice is that once you have had your fun with your reminiscing, bring a new life into this world. There is nothing like seeing the world become fresh and new again through the eyes of your child. A FAR more powerful feeling than your own nostalgia! Overwhelming at times!
You know what’s crazy I have the latest Xbox with the biggest tv and an awesome set up in my own house as a kid I struggled to get Xbox live gold I had to borrow accounts to play on !the issue is I sit on the dashboard scrolling for 20 minutes thinking what to play …..my wife asks what are you doing are you going to play anything?? In my head I’m thinking how good gaming used to be now it’s all trash so I end up putting the controller down and letting the Xbox turn off …..how insane is it that no one can make anything similar like the old days I really don’t understand. (At least we all have these fantastic memories of what real gaming used to be boys ) oorah
I’m 25 years old. I just finished a 2 hour sesh of going for nukes in Mw2, laid down in bed, set my alarm for 7:00 to work my 9-5, and opened TH-cam to this video. It’s comforting to know that other people experience nostalgia the way I do. This game especially always brings me back to the good ole days - friend’s house after school, Xbox after dinner, Saturday morning pancakes. I’ll always miss it, and I think that’s okay. We’ll always be kids at heart.
I just turned 30 and the original MW2 was the last COD game i played with friends faithfully. Around that time I graduated HS and went to college and never really played COD as much from that point on… MW2 was the literal GOAT 😢
I got over nostalgia when nostalgia convinced me to buy very bad modern games a few times lol I just appreciate the good stuff we had and don’t try to chase capturing those feelings anymore. Truth is all these game franchises I grew up with are effectively dead, not a single one of them are any good and are remarkably different than the originals, not in a good way. If people enjoy that then all the power to them but Battlefield with no classes, CoD with Nicki Minaj instead of US Marines, and Marcus Fenix playing second fiddle to a bunch of millennial/zoomer self insert gears isn’t for me.
I’m 32 now. It feels like just yesterday I was diving into gaming sessions with friends, pulling all-nighters on games like *Battlefield* and doing carefree things. Life was simpler back then. Time has flown by, and so much has changed. Some of my family members are no longer around, and I’ve lived in different countries, making new memories along the way. Friendships from school and college seem to have faded away as everyone’s lives became busier. I’ve found myself pursuing different passions, focusing on my career, fitness, and personal growth. It’s wild to think that those days are now distant memories, but they still hold a special place.
I guess I'm a bit of an oddball here, I'm turning 30 soon and it feels like being 15 was forever, almost lifetimes ago. The new experiences part is probably what makes the difference, as in this time I have lived in 5 different cities, studied in 7 different schools and worked 5 jobs. I was a fucked up kid and I remember the intense depression and anxiety from my childhood and I know that right now I'm probably living the objectively best time in my life. But it still hits me different to remember the summers that felt neverending, playing Call of Duty and going out and about with my friends every day. It's odd, I woke up at 4am today and had the "Crossfire" map from CoD 4 in my mind, had a bout of nostalgia and the first thing I saw when I opened TH-cam was this video. There's a lot of work for me to do still, as the passage of time fills me with dread and the pressure to spend my days well and live my life to the fullest feels crushing, when just staying afloat has never been easy.
Thanks for this video, I’ve never shed a tear like ever before hearing this. I’m 24, going for 25 in January, the work, eat, sleep process topic makes life drive the days faster, I just pray for better times to come
Hi everyone, I'm 29 now and a lot of you seem a little younger but I thought of myself as peak MW2 audience. I was 14 in 2009... How time flies. So yeah I just wanted to say this brought me so much emotion just listening to the voice over but what did it was the gameplay too. I haven't watched MW2 gameplay in so long and we all must have spent so many hours in these streets running around.... anyway, now I live in a small town in a flat. I waste 60+ minutes on my commute and spend my evenings doing chores. When I've finished cooking, cleaning, I'm so tired from the days work that I just hit the sofa or bed and fall asleep ready for the next day. Nothing beats the good old days. So all sounds pretty suckish right? Well, yeah. Most of it is. Growing up is a trap, and all that. Except, when I was 21 (2017) I had this little thing. I had a boy with my long term GF. And in 2022 we had our second son. My boys William and Eddie are now 7 and 2. We bought WIlliam a Switch and he plays super smash brothers, kirby and Mario. and we have to give his younger bro Eddie a controller unconnected just so he can join in! I get to experience so many things again through their eyes (soft play, video games, running around outside, riding bikes, playing football). They have made my 20's bearable. And to anyone who may be in the wilderness of their mid to late twenties, I hope you look forward to these times. To all those guys who are to yet settled down into relationships, or have kids of your own, it's true what they say about kids. They are a huge burden and responsibility. They will give you so much repsonsbility you've never ever had, but they are the most rewarding thing - even allowing you a window back into the age that you no longer are. I wish you all amazing luck. Look forward to the future. It won't be the same as the past, but that doesn't mean you cant make it amazing and special and memorable.
I stumbled on your video in the recommended section, what a great find man. I'm 28 and just recently moved out with my GF and have been going through that phase myself. You explained it very well and you even helped me to understand it better for my life situation, I appreciate you and your video! Nostalgia is very addictive and if you let go of responsibility it can be very unhealthy for your progress in life and for your relationships! We have to keep focus on our goals, objectives and who we want to become in life to not get sucked into that nostalgia pull. Thats my 2cents Edit: It's all about balance in things.
Thanks man. Im 27, and my fiance just left me and is still living in our house…im at the point where life feels lived and unlived at the same time. I am grateful that I am not alone in this odd feeling of transition.
I'm 27 and your video brought a smile to my face . I don't necessarily think that the present is worst than the past , but the old days were definitely simpler . MW2 was my first call of duty . I still remember how I didn't spend any money just to buy the game at the end of the year with my PS3 . Hunting tactical nukes , MOABS , BO2 nuclear medals . I didn't buy a single COD game until 2019 and that game definitely brought back some memories . The bad thing was even then as a 21 year old I didn't feel the same joy playing , that excitement if you know what I mean. Warzone was refreshing until I reached Crimson , after that I lost all motivation to play these kind of games . It became way to sweaty and competitive . As you get older you find other things and activities that give you pleasure , happiness and joy . But your video brought back some memories and I thank you for that
Wow! this video was really insightful and touched nostalgia in an interesting way. Im about to be 25 late this month, I don't have a career but I'm making the right steps towards it. I've come to terms that my childhood is long gone, but I would be lying if I said I didn't dwell or look back on all the old friends, and awesome moments that have passed me by. It feels as though I graduated highschool only a couple years ago.. this is life and adulthood after all, life really shows how short it is when you can't even remember last week and it feels like 3 months ago was just yesterday. Thank you for the video, you earned a subscriber and I look forward to seeing what else you have in store. live life to the fullest, spend time with those you hold dear, and remember anything you love doing is not a waste of time. we don't have forever.
I always said how nostalgia is a drug. Looking through old photos and just reminiscing about old times. It kept me sedentary for many years before I realized I need to live life to make more moments worth looking back on.
Just turned 26 last month and I'm moving overseas to London UK and tonight's the big night that I fly off and start a new life for myself. Where did the time go, felt like last year I was 12 years old playing black ops 1 with ny older brothers and suddenly it's 14 years later and we're all in different periods of our lives and I'm leaving everything behind. It's all so bittersweet, my heart aches but I'm excited for what the future holds. This reminds me of a quote from a fallout new vegas dlc called Old World Blues: "there is an expression in the wasteland, old world blues. It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future for what it is. The stare into the 'what was', eyes like pilot lights guttering and spent as the realities of their world continue on around them"
It's really refreshing seeing a positive view on growing up. I've been worried sick of graduating and dealing the passage of time of seeing free time i once had go away and relationships begin drifting apart ever since 8th grade
Growing up reminds me of finishing a beloved trilogy like halo 3 or mw3. You’ve been waiting years to reach that point. All the build up, the anticipation to finally see the closing of a chapter. It’s fulfilling to look back at all the events you experienced, at the same time it’s somber. You know you can’t step in the same river twice and get the same sensation. It’s a bittersweet sensation.
I'm also 27 and had struggled by extreme nostalgia. I couldn't enjoy the present because the past seemed so much better. My best tip is to do new things. Get outside and be active. Go fishing, go on hikes, play a sport, etc. Breaking your routine is what makes new memories and experiences.
Sometimes when i think back i almost want to cry of how good we had it all the games where always exciting and a different feeling as of today and not just games but the playfulness and excitment you had as a kid you start memorizing and thinking back of the good old days with you`re childhood friends and realize how good you really had it, its like i really want to feel that feeling again that you have almost completely forgot about its a different feeling you just can`t explain but its a magic feeling when you think back about it.
This might be the most beautiful comment section on all of TH-cam. Nostalgia really is something else. Thanks for all the support and sharing your stories here on this video. I had no idea so many other people felt this way. I'll return to these comments when I feel down or missing the good old days. Keep pushing forward in life boys! Also, sorry for my dog barking at 2:16 😅
Golden age of gaming. Will forever look back on those days.
28 years old and feel this. I miss the MW2 - BO2 days so much. That was peak gaming and I’m glad I got to experience it.
Same here, though I’m 20 and the Golden Age for me was BO3 - BO4.
Yea bro 28 aswell, i was real good at sniping and made videos and stuff early on back when it wasnt popular on an old account, got subs fast but stopped only after a few vids. I Think often about how I liked it and how exciting that time was and regret I didnt keep at it. But thats no excuse for me not to start again now! Really liked the Black ops 6 beta so might just do it for the heck of it.
Yep, it was the best 😭
Sad that you missed Cod4 by 2 years, although the first 2 weeks of MW2 was definitely the peak in the history of the CoD community, you know before everyone unlocked the dual 1887s. We're the same age, but I managed to convince my parents to get me a 360 and CoD2 as the launch title probably too young because I always got straight A's in history class and it was a "historical" game hahaha
Same brother. 29 years old family career etc. but no days felt as simple and fun as the MW2-BO days
I own my own place, have a steady job, but strangely enough my nostalgia drug is watching old Cod commentaries from my favourite TH-camrs from the Machinima era.
Yep. Got a house, married, good job. Still watching old Halo and CoD vids.
31 yo. Moved out. Got some new friends. Travelling every few years. Still watch COD weapon showcases while at work. Still love talking about video games like I did when I was 16.
Those were the days my friend
I guess it’s a sort of feeling of safeness
seananners man.
I'm 30 now. It feels like just 5 years ago I was a freshman in high school playing MW2 with all of my best friends; pulling all nighters, gaming, doing stupid stuff. Grandparents are gone, most of the family is gone, dad is gone, moved across the country, got my own house. I don't speak to anyone from high school or college anymore. No one has time for anything and always seems to pick better options. It's crazy to think it's been 15 years since all of this.
I come across nostalgia videos on Tiktok of Halloween and Christmas and think my only last real shot at experiencing this again is to have my own kids. I myself will never get to experience this as that life is LONG gone. Time flies, CoD sucks, and life ain't getting any easier. I'm 30 now but in 5 years I'll probably be 45 at this rate. Cheers to new memories, I guess.
This is how I feel as well. Everyone made the better choice than me, but part of it is my own laziness and unwillingness to just let go of the past.
Having my own kids is probably the way to re-experience it and to do something with my life.
At this rate I'm pretty much unwilling to do anything for anyone except myself and my family members.
I'm 34 now and it's just insane how quickly I jumped up to 34 from 30.
I haven't had a girlfriend in 10 years. Just honestly got tired of trying and worried that if I get married I'm going to get divorced and lose everything including my own kids
Well said, I feel very similar here. Hard to believe how fast time goes by. Those were simple days.
@@Rain1 That's the likely outcome of getting married. I share the same feeling and fortunately my current gf and I are on the same page of never getting married. If we do it, it's just going to be a ceremony and no government being involved so we don't have to deal with asset issues in case we ever split.
You should try to reach out to some of your old friends from high school or college. You never know! :)
@@colefeltman638 Unfortunately they are all bums now. They are all in and out of jail or still live in their parents' garage. I'm one of 3 people in my graduating class of 100 that became successful and/or moved away from the area. College, my best friend got married and is a "happy wife, happy life" person so they never leave the house now without permission. Even if the story was different, I'm 1000 miles from where I grew up now so reconnecting wouldn't be possible.
44 here and I see a lot of 20-somethings in the comments. Believe me, the nostalgia is only going to grow stronger. Your life is going to change here quickly. Everything you think that's going to last forever.....it's not going to. Friends, girlfriends, parties, family, feeling like you have lots of time, all of that fades quickly. You're 25 and you blink and you're staring at your mid 40s. Life moves fast, and as you get older, the ride only speeds up, and you do everything you can just to hang on. Take the time to look around and really take in the moments. Enjoy the people that are around you, because you're going to start losing them. Either to lost connections or death. Look, it's not all bad here, I like my life now, but there will never be another time in your life like your youth. Please, believe me, do everything in your power to take it in and enjoy the ride. Before you know it, you'll see a movie, play a game, hear a song, etc that will be extremely bittersweet as it brings you onto that nostalgic ride of you looking back wondering where all the time went.
I just turned 24 a few days ago & this comment hit me hard as I always have a bad habit of looking ahead & doing what I can to be successful for the future. I need to slow down sometimes & learn to live in the moment. Appreciate you for sharing!
Im 26 consumed by this nostalgia, Thanks for the heads up. Im really trying to deal with it and to move on in life. Wish you all the best brother
Thanks for the advices man !
24 years old here, dad just died at age 62, 3 months ago. You don't truly feel how.. non permanent.. life is until something like that happens. I was never addicted to games but I'm annoyed that I wasted slightly more time playing games than I should have, since he passed.
@@Millermacs so sorry for your loss man, my condolences to you and your family
I'm 25 now and this video really encapsulates how I've been feeling recently. I'm 7 months into my new "Adult" life and during my commute home from the office the other day, sitting in traffic amongst the sea of other adults doing the same, a wave of nostalgia hit me like a truck. It really does feel like just yesterday I was 11, waiting in line outside gamestop on a cold october night for BO1's midnight release. Im so thankful I got to experience all the simple things life offered back then, but at times it sucks cause things don't feel/aren't that way anymore. Your description of feeling like a kid and an adult at the same time really hit me to the core. I get sad sometimes w/ that the feeling you described..as its just evidence of my childhood finally slipping away as I make my transition into full adult hood. Wish I could just experience those things again one last time before my life shifts completely.
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We are the same age. You’ve perfectly encapsulated my memories and feelings for that time period. I try to smile because it happened. I don’t want to go back, but I know it’ll never happen again. That’s okay. I’m grateful we all had the shared experiences of playing online and have retained the references and good times we all had playing together.
@@bmcanulla Glad to know I'm not the only one brother! Hope you're doing well now :) I totally agree with you. So glad I can look back and say that I got to experience those things and be a part of it.
How did yall get that game, for us it was banned from minors? I was 18-19 at the time
@@DandyHippo Dragged my mom to gamestop with me LOL the worst part was always getting to the register and having the cashier read out all of the reasons why the game was RATED M for MATURE xD (MW2, GTA IV, BO1, etc.)
I went through this "transition" a few years ago when my wife and I finally packed up and moved across the country. Prior to that, and pre 2020, I basically had this extreme attachment to my childhood memories and experiences. I fought so hard to not let go of my youth because I didn't know who I would be on the other side.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing, beautiful at times. However I no longer live there in my mind. It's a place I visit from time to time...but my entire goal in my 30s has been creating new experiences, learning new things, and stepping outside of my comfort zone.
Life TRULY is what you make it, no matter the age. If you choose to succumb to routine, your life will just pass you by. I don't care what you do...never stop learning. Live a full life.
Loved the vibe of this video. You've earned a subscriber.
Thanks for the support, glad you have a healthy view of nostalgia and are striving to create new experiences! it's something i'm trying to improve at. I'm a fan of your content!
This is great advice!! 25 here and feel the same way about getting sucked into the mundane, 9-5 lifestyle. It's easy to get depressed and overwhelmed if you aren't careful. Living outside of my comfort zone and trying new things has been a big part of my life lately, and it feels good knowing others value that as well. Cheers
thank you for giving me a new perspective.
What's helped me feel less like I'm letting go of my childhood is passing along the things I enjoyed to my nephews and seeing them genuinely enjoy it.
For me it's not necessarily watching them get into the exact same games, but seeing them enjoy gaming as a whole and be able to experience that alongside my nephews has been something I value a lot, and feel I kinda needed in order to heal my inner-child. For me I just hope the "adult on the other side" is the same kind of adults that got me into gaming in the first place, who were calm and gentle when teaching me how to play. Even better if they have siblings or cousins to play against so they can be competitive
33 years old and feel this. You never know how good you had it until it is gone. That is nostalgia. But that does not mean the best days are behind you! It means we never realize such great moments of happiness in our life until looking back. But never stop looking forward with optimism boys! Set one goal each day, and accomplish it! No matter how big or small the goal is, the point is, you finished and accomplished it! That is the key. I miss hearing all of us in the MW2 pregame lobbies when everyones mics were plugged in and no one was in party chats. And you played the same people over and over again as long as no one left the lobby.The trash talk and competitiveness was wild and unfiltered. And WE LOVED IT!
I’m 33, many life changes this year. I finally packed up my pc after not using it for months and months. Sucks when you realize a chapter is over
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go find something else to do
This is a brilliant comment mate , It made me smile, I’ve just turned 26 and hoping the best it’s to come!
Good time for sure
I’m 25 and this hit deep. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and I just can’t let go of my past. Watching TH-cam videos about some of my favorite childhood games and replaying them over and over is the only thing I have left of experiencing my childhood again. I lost my best friend and the rest of my childhood friends and I went our separate ways. Most of my family is thankfully still here but who knows for how much longer. It really is such a bittersweet feeling thinking of the good times. I just hope I’ll be able to make some more good times in the future.
Your explanation on how our perception of time changes as we grow older is really spot on. An example of how I realized this was just from seeing how fast kids around me grow up. Like I’m only 25 now and when I was a kid some of my older family members whenever I saw them in person after not seeing them for a while would always get emotional and say things like ”your growing up too fast” and of course I didn’t understand what that meant at the time. Now just recently I saw my cousins daughter who’s just starting middle school. I remember seeing her at the hospital when she was born, playing with her when she was just a kid, and when I saw her just recently I couldn’t even recognize her at first, I asked my cousin who’s that girl over there, he said “that’s my daughter bro” and I actually stared crying and when she came up to hug me she started crying too lol. That little girl that I remember is long gone now. Time can be a really cruel bastard sometimes.
Wow, I’m also a 27 year old wracked with nostalgia about old CoD games and memories, among other things. This channel should be a fun ride, excited to hop on!
It really is scary how fast your 20s fly by compared to your childhood. It felt like I experienced everything as a kid and had all the time in the world. Now as a working 9-5 adult, every moment of free time I get is gone in a second on to the next day. A fear of mine is waking up at 60 years old and not being able to recapture where the time went or what I’ve done with my life. It’s honestly depressing to feel like nothing seems to grab my enjoyment or attention now.
You need to leave your comfort zone and do something that will help chip you a way out of the matrix so you aren’t stuck in the mundane 9-5. Find a side hustle to make money in whatever little free time you do have, so that you can eventually supplement your income enough to break free from a job and start living life with true freedom again, just like when we were children. Then you can begin to have new experiences which will seemingly slow down the passage of time. The goal is to create new memories from those new experiences.
I’ve always thought about this but I’m 20. I feel like as a kid we aren’t aware to how much/little time is to come and we just lived in the moment. We were making memories nearly every day even if it was the littlest thing. Then life hits you and now all you can think about is anything but the present and your wondering how tomorrows gonna go/ the next week and boom.. it’s that time. And while you were passing that time you were thinking about how action packed and how care free your childhood used to be.
You may be functionally depressed there, i heard someone say that finding everything boring is a sign, hope this isn’t the case for you
Have you ever seen that episode of Ed Edd n Eddy where Ed wakes one day as a very old man in complete disarray because he couldn't believe he was old and thought he was still a kid?
That episode still haunts me to this day, and reminds me to not let life just pass me by. Well, I try to not let it, at least.
Everything is boring to me these days as well 28. I feel you.
Just turned 30 last month and the day was just filled with me looking back on the last 10 years and wondering what the heck have I even accomplished.
But nostalgia is a hell of a thing. It makes me think that my childhood and school life was better than it actually was, but it was just riddled with anxiety and depression, bullies, and... crazy girls. Maybe that... action, itself, is what I miss, the craziness feeling like adventure. But I still can't help but feel like it was the good ol' days. The video games were magical back then, too. I used them to escape from the real world because of how hectic it was for me.
All I can say is that it's important to live in the moment. Like the cliche says, we need to make sure we're living life to the fullest. A better version of yourself may yet await in the future, and more great memories are yet to be made. We just got to make sure we're not blinded by nostalgia enough to miss what's happening in the current moment, because you just might be making more memories that you're going to be nostalgic about in the future and not even realize it.
Chiming in as a late 30's gamer and multi-time Dad. I'm just gonna let you know - the nostalgia doesn't go away. Even when you have a family, a career and a home, etc. It might sound crazy, but the older I get the more vivid and powerful the nostalgic feelings are actually becoming. With more real life responsibilities, the youthful activities and the hobbies I loved and enjoyed have become more scarce and more spaced out. So, when I stumble into a feeling of nostalgia, it quite literally hits different. It can often be entirely consuming for the brief moments that it's there as well.
My advice for those younger than I am - enjoy the times while they last and do your best to be present in the moment with whatever activity you're partaking in and enjoying. And particularly the people you're there with. More often than not nostalgia is linked to shared memories, hobbies and activities. And those fond memories are so truly wonderful because of the people you were with at the time and how those people made you feel.
thanks for this advice brett, i appreciate it immensely.
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I think nostalgia is just a natural part of how our brain works. We tend to only remember the good parts of the past, and easily forget the bad ones. With that being said, life is a kid/teen definitely was better than it is now for me.
I was pretty "successful", managed to enter a top university and get a Master's degree and my parents had enough money to help me buy an apartment. I also worked part time during my studies. However, life after my degree have been rough, its still a nightmare to get a job. The job market today is awful, you need to apply to 50 -100 jobs on average to land a decent job, and most entry level jobs now requires several years of experience. Its just stupid, but it is supply and demand. The companies get over 100 applicants a SINGLE DAY after their job posting. They can choose what they want. I'm into economics/finance but I know its the same for engineering as well for instance.
Everything today is just bad, gaming sucks now, sports isn't the same as it was, everything is just soulless coorporate greed now. The dating market is awful now, but still most people actually meet their partner online today, not irl.
I don't think I want to have kids at this point, just don't want them to suffer and have to join the rat race. It's not worth it, whats the damn point in it?
@@Skumtomten1ur right, tou need to get rich so ur kids wonr take part in the rst race
Just turned 33 and 80 % of my life is wallowing in nostalgia. I listen to the music I listened to in 2002-2012 and actually teach at the same school I went to as a kid. Think about past relationships and places I lived in. How happy it feels now even though I know there were hard times and nothing felt that special when it happened really, just now later.
Damn this video hits hard...
I’m 30 now and spent much of my teenage years gaming and creating content. I even landed a job in the gaming industry, moved to a new country, and got married. Unfortunately, I also lost my mom.
Life is tough, especially with the current economic challenges. Stress seems to be mounting year after year, and gaming doesn’t bring the same joy it used to.
I often wish I could go back in time and relive those days.
Take care, everyone.
Well said. Feel the same. School days truly are the best days of your life.
Time is absolutely flying by, and every day is almost exactly the same
That’s so deep. And sad.
So get some new hobbies.
That is entirely your fault and only your fault.
@@TheWorkshop190 it’s usually what happens when you have a job and work a lot it’s something about 90% of adults feel like at some point.
@@TheWorkshop190 hard to say that when you have obligations, need to earn money and this kind of stuff. not everyone has rich parents and can afford to travel around. stop saying some mean BS
I did an experiment with myself one time involving nostalgia. I used to work as a sushi restaurant when I was younger. It was a fine job, I enjoyed it well enough, but it was nothing remarkable. I liked my coworkers and my boss but it wasn't like some really exciting job that I was always looking forward to doing. I knew I was only going to work there for one year before I began college, and I told my boss that when I began. After eleven months, I reminded my boss I would be leaving in a few weeks, and he said that was okay. In the last little bit of time I was working there, I challenged myself to take stock of exactly how I was feeling and what I was thinking one night while I was at work, and I said well I'm feeling alright, I'm fairly happy, but there's definitely things I'd rather be doing. Nothing about this situation stands out as especially good, but it's satisfactory and I feel good. I said watch I bet in a few months or a year when I'm working somewhere else or back at school or whatever, I'll think back to working at the sushi restaurant and feel a sense of nostalgia and longing for it like it was "the good old days." And sure enough about nine or ten months later, I was riding the bus through the neighborhood where the restaurant was in and I felt that sensation. And I said to myself see, I knew it, but remember when I did that experiment? Often times nostalgia happens because we remember things more fondly than they may have even been. Good times become great times in our minds, and even great times become legendary life defining moments. And even those moments that ARE truly legendary to us, we forget that we're making new memories like that all the time, it's always happening to us, we just don't realize it in real time.
Bro I think that you are so right, never done that experiment tho but when being hit by nostalgia I’m always asking myself « why was it so better back then » and can rarely answer the question . I even have nostalgia for « bad » moments sometimes so yeah. Nostalgia really is a weird thing lol
@@Pismice You're right. I've had nostaglia for bad moments too. I read about a study one time about why people can enjoy watching a movie or a television show they've seen many times already, and one of the takeaways was that there's something cathartic or even therapeutic about knowing how something ends. When you know what the ending is, it gives you a subconscious sense of comfort. I think that applies to nostalgia as well. Because you already know that you were okay and you made it through a certain period of time, and there's no uncertainty, it makes you want to go back to it.
Oh wow! Yep sounds about right.
I'm currently travelling the world. And i reminisce about when i was travelling Australia. We romanticise the past. It's just about becoming present and enjoying the Now.
Super powerful book that talks about THIS. It's called The Power of Now. Changed my life.
Yes, I think you are correct that we have a blindness of joy in the moment. We humans are very bad at living in the present and being mindful. We are always stuck in the past or the future and tend to ignore the only thing we will ever have, which is the present moment.
I do think part of this comes down to surviving a situation. When I worked minimum wage I absolutely hated it. Now when I look back after working in corporate for a few years, I find myself missing that old retail store because I can see now just how clearly everything worked out. Back then, the future was much less clear and more hazy, so it made me anxious and not enjoy the present. Once I made it out, suddenly I realize "hey, that was actually not that bad". But we also tend to forget the bad moments of the past or at the very least, minimize them. I also realize how much more communal and friendly it was. We all had each other's backs working the registers. We would talk throughout the day about each other's lives and struggles, and people bond through that stuff. But in the corporate tech world, people tend to be isolated in their cubicles. I barely knew my coworkers in corporate even though I worked their longer than retail. People felt much more shifty, although that is likely just my perception from limited contact. I think that's something I miss the most about being in school and working an hourly job.
This is so true, I got stuck wanting to be gaming all day everyday and got way too comfortable, now I’m 26 and scared as shit to go out and try working some shit job I don’t want, wish me luck
Same thing happened to me man, about to turn 26. I feel like not having a job during lockdown really made it easy to stay where I was at. I feel you, I struggled with that fear so much. Was like consumed by it. I've only been out of the house for like a bit over a year, the shit can be hard but it feels really good to face that fear head on. Just feels different being out in the world again. It's hard, but I mean different in a good way. Scrolling job postings looking for things to apply to sometimes feels really hellish haha, but the experience of actually being at whatever job is totally different than that once you get there. I've thought about whether I wasted my time, but honestly I just don't think I was ready yet, and I feel like that's okay. Good luck! You're not late to anything, it's your life!
@ so true man so much life ahead, wish you nothing but the best
Nostalgia hit me hard today. Im also 27 and cant get passed the thoughts of the past. I still play Battlefield 3 on my xbox since 2012 and Im still looking for that spark i had as a kid. Its truly difficult to grasp my purpose in life now since I have very little time and i have to keep up with the bills. Beautiful video🔥
I found this channel today and watched a few videos on the importance and navigation of your 20s. These are good to hear that no one knows what they're doing and everyone wings life and figures it all out on the way. Im 20, junior in college(Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering), and im stressed from all of what is happening around me, and i feel sorta lost. But these vids make me feel like im actually making progress in my life. I just struggle with relationships and feel like it would fill a huge hole in my life. These vids make me feel that everything will be ok and i just have to wait for life to come at me.
Everyone is winging it in life! That's one thing I learned as I got older. When i was young I used to think everyone understands what's going on, i couldn't have been more wrong haha. You have a very challenging yet valuable major! Keep pushing forward in school and life and eventually you will find the right people. Give it time
I am pretty much in the same situation as you. 20 yo, mechanical engineering, trying to balance school, work, physical activity and realtionships lol. I think about what the hell im gonna do pretty much all day
You both are in a way better spot than a lot of people! Keep focusing on yourself and the relationships will build, just make sure yall get to know the person well. Keep it up my dudes
@@TheJmsJose97 thanks brother, appreciate the advice
Mate, im 28 with Chronic heath issues, still living in my teenage room with no real prospects of things improving. I found God and it keeps me Nourished. Its still hard but the weight of the world is lighter now.
You're in a beautiful stage of life, uncertainty is a challenge and I garuntee you, you will look back after things settle down that it was a good moment in life as you overcame it. God Bless Brother Goodluck and keep grinding.
I found this channel couple videos ago and I don't really leave comments but on videos but I feel compelled to tell you that I really admire you. I've watched a lot of videos on the topics you have discussed and you truly stand out to me. I really like the positive and calm way you go about talking about things, you seem super genuine, you don't bring anyone else down with your words to prove a point but above all you seem like more of a human and less of a 'content creator'. With you it truly feels like you are someone I can relate to, and therefore I feel compelled to listen to what you say. I agree with a lot of what you say but also learn a lot from you. You are the type of person that I wish I had in my life that I could be around more often as I know being around someone like you would be super beneficial for anyone, and anyone who does have you in their lives are probably super grateful. I'm a 22 year old still navigating things and it's super awesome to take in all the advice, encouragement and general positivity that you share. Keep doing what you're doing bro it's awesome!
Thank you so much for your kind words! YOU inspire me to continue to make these videos. Wishing you success and happiness in your life journey
This convo made me so sad and so happy at the same time. Gg brothers
I was 21 when Mw2 came out, I'm 35 now. God I miss the old days. I played this game all day everyday for 6-7 years, smoked a shit load of weed and wouldnt change it for the world. Some of the best days of my life.
back when u could still get high and have a good game
This video came at such a crucial time in my life. Getting married next week and moving out of my parent’s place with just 3 months after quitting my job and becoming an entrepreneur. Lately, life has felt so overwhelming to the point where I don’t feel like getting out of bed and I remember these times when we were 12 playing CoD and only worrying about our K/D and playing with friends. Great video and I really appreciate these words.
I'm 29 and can really feel the accelerating passage of time, I think the best way to slow this down is to make the most out of your vacation time if you have the means, go to as many new places as possible to keep creating those novel experiences that will stick with you.
Totally agree with this! Traveling on vacation is the best way to have those new experiences as you get older
After a rough breakup of a 5 year relationship I ended up spending 2 years doing nothing but smoking weed, drinking, and watching TV or playing video games everyday. That was the fastest 2 years of my life. It felt like I blinked and two whole years had passed.
Agreed I'm 29 and been doing this a lot after covid, I wished I've done this earlier in my 20s
Another facet of this video and growing up is the “what you’re supposed to do” things of life. The moving out, getting the car, the family, the nice job, etc etc.. which is also a linear rail in which we are ALL expected to do, what society expects of us. We are all essentially carbon copies of each other except for the individualised experiences that we obtain along the way… and then you find out others have done these things too.
Whatever you do in life, finding YOUR happiness is the most important thing. Childhood nostalgia is often where we were our happiest so that’s why a lot of us cling to it, and the remnants of it as we grow up.
You’ve done what many cannot: leave the comfort behind to forge your future. And like you said, that doesn’t mean leaving it always. I have a friend who is so addicted to the comfort of this nostalgia (primarily world of Warcraft) that he is doing nothing with his life… we are both 30 now- I stopped playing years ago but still enjoy a game of other titles in the evening. However he plays from about 2pm until 6am the following morning… I believe there are many who are like this.
A tip for your memories… take pictures! When you have moments that you enjoy, take a picture… it could be the smallest thing. But you will realise that you really do a lot in a year, and there’s much joy to be had!
Never lose that inner child, and find that balance. But don’t waste away in the nostalgia of the past
Just turned 30, and have a 6 month old son. The end of the wife's pregnancy and these last 6 months have been the worst of my life. Everything I enjoyed is gone. No time to play any video games, barely enough time to get done all the things I don't want to do. The worst part is I knew that the 2008-2014 gaming of when I was 14 to 20 was going to be the best days of my life. Playing Ark with a group of friends every day for 10+ hours, friends I don't even talk to anymore. Halo 3 with a rotation of almost everyone in my class. Forza motorsport 4 until the sun came up with my best friend, just doing 50+ lap races on maple valley and talking about everything. We're both too busy to talk let alone game together now. I miss it all so much. Nostalgia isn't a strong enough word. When I see old COD footage like this it makes me want to cry I miss those times so much. I get a pit in my stomach. I even fired up my 360 and got a month of xbox live to play some old games around a year ago. It was just like the old days with people playing still. Just as fun as I remember, more fun than I have had on a modern game in years.
Rest in Peace to a fallen soldier
Hang in there man
I'm going to write you something, because I know your situation and how you feel. It's just advice, and you choose what to make of it.
First off, congrats on your son. That's a big milestone for you. It's crazy how the free time just evaporates, isn't it? That part can suck. I'd ask that you please do your best not to project what you feel onto your son. The world needs more good parents, those who can give more time than they have in their day to their kids. They deserve it.
And you deserve free time. Even though it will never be like it was, I hope you know that the trade off you are making is priceles. There will be so many moments of joy, the kind that millions of people miss out on and don't even know it, if you choose to be an active and engaged parent. I wouldn't trade the memories I have with my kids for any opportunity to relive my nostalgic past. Never.
What I did to fix the free time issue: trained myself to be an early riser. I never was before, and it took a lot of trial and error, but now I'm up at 5am everyday, 2 hours before the household. This does mean I'm asleep by 9pm every night, but it's worth it. The morning is my space to be myself and that time is mine to do whatever I choose. I don't know your situation, but if you can talk with your partner and establish your need for something similar, for your mental health and wellbeing, I'd highly recommend it. The last thing you want is to become a depressed wreck, resenting the world and your loved ones, wondering if continuing another day is even worth the effort, just because you feel trapped and unable to breathe. Please, trust me on that one. Even if you can only carve out an hour, or 30-miutes, in your day you should do it.
Best of luck.
@PunkerNinetySix I appreciate that. Already get up at 5 for work, been working 50+ hours a week just to get by. I do usually stay up as late as possible Friday nights playing something but it's barely enjoyable because I'd rather just get some rest. Weekends are just work for no pay trying to get caught up around the house. I'm so looking forward to winter. No more mowing grass and family get togethers. Just quality inside time.
Hope you're doing okay man. I don't think you're a "fallen soldier" or anything like that; you're a man now, doing man stuff. Kids change your life forever and are a wonderful blessing, and require a lot of TLC, but so do you! I'm in my late 20''s with a 3yo and 6mo btw. My advice is to game plan with your partner, carve out some "me time" for you both. Find out what time works for you guys and support each other in achieving your "me time". When it's my wife's personal time I know I'm in charge of the kiddoes and vice versa. I say all this because "you can't give water from an empty bucket", and that sounds like where you're at (I know you'll scoff at this but it won't last forever either!).
Best
I’m 28, turning 29 in less than a week from now. Can’t say I completely agree, but I hear you and deeply resonate with most of what you’re saying! It’s a weird time in life, because up until recently most of our lives have pretty much been choreographed by parents and other elders in society. Most things that happen in our lives from here on out are largely down to decisions we’ll be making. It’s a bit bittersweet and daunting, but I guess we’ll do our best!
For me it was when my dad passed away due to suicide. After that I stopped gaming, stopped doing a lot of things that once meant a lot to me. I spent a couple years just reflecting, it felt like time just froze and nothing mattered. If my life were a book then it would be a duology. The first book has been written and now the second one has started.
i feel you big time 🤗. except for me, the gaming time reduced a couple years after
The MW3 nostalgia times really got me. Everyday coming out of high-school, straight to my room turning on my xbox360 to play all day with my friends and classmates. Every day, every week, every month of the year. 2011 and 2012, you were amazing.
I Just got your Video recommended. Im 29 years old and often think about my childhood. It was Just a golden Time and i really Miss it. Life is Short and you need to Make the Best of it. I wish you all the Best in your Future. I Just subbed now.
Good luck to you as well brotha
I’m 28 and this really resonates with me as well. I’ve been living away from home for that last 4 years and I’ve feeling existential about my life before moving away for work. How things are different and just never will be the same. I miss the life I used to have and how it felt like there was endless possibilities. And also coming to terms with the fact that life just keeps going, it morphs and changes completely over many years. It makes me sad to think that who i am and the life i have will one day be completely unrecognizable from the one i was leading when I was 21. It feels like I’m at a bridge between two lives and can’t just move on. Its scary. My only solace is that we just need to take these changes with grace. Accept it for what it is. And make positive decisions to ensure your present and future is setup for success and happiness. Stay open minded. Invest yourself into new relationships and opportunities that you have. Very few things about your present reality are garunteed to be forever. So enjoy the present and don’t lose yourself over the past.
All of us around the 25 up to 28 we really feel this video cause we were kids playing such great games and we just miss the nostalgia because we want to go back and do more than we did I accepted my childhood was over at 25 and that was TUFF but it's a beautiful thing because all those people you played with even if you don't know them they probably have a full family good career happy life and that is what is beautiful about the end of nostalgia because why would you ever want to be stuck in one part of you're life that is not living that's dwelling this is my first time watching you and all I got to say is god bless bro cause this video was real💯
I'm Peter Pan, though, so my childhood never has to end if I don't want it to...
@@Cosmo_P0litan being a child at heart is what keeps the memories of you're childhood alive it definitely sucks we can't turn on the xbox 360 after school or playing outside and actually enjoy playing the game almost so much it's like we got lost in it now that we have bills and responsibilities we can only enjoy the game for a couple hours at most shit truly does suck but I found that if you dwell on good memories it makes the nostalgia sad instead of something beautiful man I wish we could all of just stayed kids a little longer 💯
@@DamnMarcus Why as kids? Being a kid, you have restrictions and rules to deal with. I would much rather return to high school and be a teenager again. It's all subjective, but for me, those were some of the best times in my life. It's almost like being a kid except you drive cars, stay up late, gather and go out, girls grew nice t1ts and @$$es... SOOOOO beats being a kid.
@Cosmo_P0litan I agree I would want to be in high school again better times I'm 24 now just so sad how time Flys
I love his video and you found something that I realised only at a much older age.
In terms of getting novelty as we get older, I have been trying to use our "been there, done that" to my advantage.
Instead of dismissing a familiar situation as "same old, same old", I try to force myself to see what is unique in these moments.
This helps me get anchored to the present moment and makes life a lot more juicy.
I'm definitely not an expert, but I'm getting better every day.
I wish you all the best, my friend!
bro almost made me cry half way through that
video really hits hard dude. specially that mw2 gameplay on the background
This awesome video reminds me of a quote I was shown when I was feeling really down about how life started to get very mechanical and repetitive, creativity suck hit me hard as I didn't have time, or the energy as life took hold of me. "Life is a series of little deaths, out of which life always returns" - Charles Fieldelson Jr. Truth is you are never meant to stay the same, or do the same things. Here is another way to think about this... "At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it"
As a 20 year old in college right now, your videos really do help put things in perspective for me. They serve as a source of inspiration for my later 20s. Please keep up the good work, these are very high quality videos for a channel that is just beginning to thrive.
super glad I can help! 20s are a tough time, but thankfully there's plenty of time to learn and make mistakes
Last year I did reminisce about the era of my childhood, and while it was great for a little while, this eventually ended up in me spiraling into a deep depression.
It was the worst time in my life.
31 years old and this is the exact video I needed.
I recently had to clean out my parents house and the nostalgia hit me like a brick wall. Being in the house I grew up in, remembering all the great times in MW1, Halo 3, and being a kid for some reason really hits hard.
I look bad sometimes and think man I was such an A-Hole. I could have studied harder, I could have worked out more, I could have had better looking girls, but you know what? I had a great time at least and my life has worked out and I’ve been able to build a life that fulfills me.
Anyway, great video, you just earned a new subscriber!
Cheers.
This one hit home man. 27 years old and growing up in the middle of MW2. Nostalgia is powerful indeed! What I wouldn’t give to go back to those worry free times.
Hey man, you've made me realise all my nostalgia and regret in the past about not making more youtube videos on my old account back when it new is no excuse not to do it now. I still think about doing youtube to this day 14 years later so there MUST be something there thats important to me.
I'm thinking of just making some fun videos that id want to watch on cod bo6, talkn shit, raging out at the sweats and just uploading it for the fun of it like I would have in 2010. I suffer from chronic health issues so my life hasnt moved on much since I was 16 still in my old room etc at 28, but again, thats no excuse to feel sad and like its not worth it to start doing things i found fun as a teen now! God Bless brother.
If it's a passion of yours I think it's important to give a fair and honest investment into it and give yourself a time frame of 1-2 years to see some growth. You don't need to "make it" in that time frame but you should atleast see if there's any growth. Actively refining the basic skills to content create and not creating corners is the key just as you do for anything else in life. Give yourself an honest try and you might make your passion a career. Give it a shot Will! Go invest in a setup and just make yourself proficient! ❤
@@iiZAPPx oh yea bro thanks a lot for the reply 😀
Same here man,
Due to health circumstances, my cherished memories were that of playing CoD and GTA 5 throughout my teens and 20s. And those memories are extra special for me!
Go for it brother !
21 here and having grown up with video games since I was basically a toddler and having found myself in this cod4, mw2 rabbit hole today, this really is a perfect encapsulation of, I believe, most people's experience in our time with coming of age and so on. The amount of stress many of us have to deal with concerning money, personal relationships, school and work, oftentimes alone, can be very exhausting emotionally.
mw2 gameplay over this video is just brutal in a good way
I can still remember my positive conversations online and outside interactions from the early 2000s. I despise now myself but I feel my younger self would’ve been destroyed and disappointed in my current me. I guess I carry on for not disappointing the innocent happy child thinking that his dreams will become a reality.
This video brought me back to the days of Seananners commentary vids. Don't worry man even my 60 year old father still tells me he feels like a child and still plays video games and enjoys life just like when he was younger. Just because you have more responsibility doesn't mean you have to give up your childhood for that. Don't watch yourself turn into a miserable old man, because we are all children of God. Enjoy the time you have, life's too short to be worried and stressed all the time.
Hes definitely lying to you
Also, you dont have to play video games to not be miserable
Currently 26 realizing my life was never really what I thought it was. My perception of the world has changed so much I can never go back to that place. Even if I could it wouldn’t be the same. Hard to accept the only path is forward.
i've never had someone read my life like a book like you did
we all are brothers & sisters on & off the battlefield..
much love.
Love that quote, bro. We're all human, and we're all on the same team here.
same rh :(
Dude I just wrenched listening to this. I’m one year younger than you aged 26 and im in an identical position to you in life, career, gf, moving out, the lot.
My heart yearns for these days, the nostalgia compared to how mundane life is today has been consuming me since I was around 20 & its honestly pretty depressing, I think i also cling onto those days as my dad hadnt been taken from cancer until 2014. I hope to find a way to deal with this emotion sometime soon because its honestly unbearable.
I turned 30 last month. I am engaged and we have a 10 month old daughter. Life is going well, but I can’t help myself from looking for nostalgia. Installing old games, only to stop playing them after 30 minutes. Probably because none of the people I played with, are still around playing that.
Lately I’ve been looking for a house in my old childhood village. For some reason I am really drawn to living there again. Is it nostalgia of a simpler life, or will it really improve my life? I have yet to find out.
Thanks for this video and this comment section. It’s good to see that I am not alone struggling with these thoughts of past days.
it seems like its mostly the people you shared those memories with are the thing that really ties the nostalgia together
I think that's probably the hardest part. The people that were around you playing the games with you are too busy or no longer around anymore. Moved on in life and don't play anymore. Don't talk anymore. A combination of many of things like that.
I’m 25 years old and feel the same. I work in the ICU and am surrounded by death which adds to my fear of accepting my place as an adult and aging. It feels weird and I usually escape with nostalgia. I am still figuring things out, but what has helped me is dealing with the emotion and fear instead of escaping. It’s scary and really uncomfortable, but it’s been helping me cope. You’re not alone with how you feel, and we will get through it. One day we will miss our 20s just like how we miss our childhoods and the “simple days”. It’s an honor to be able to be alive and even age. I need to remember that sometimes. Peace brother
love that graph about perception of time speeding up as we get older. another way to think of it is a year when you’re 8 is 1/8 of your entire life and at 25 it’s only 1/25. And that logic can be applied to any length of time…Months, weeks, days too. Time quite literally does move faster the longer we live. And I feel like subconsciously we’re always aware of it.
Yessir it's all ratios and fractions when you think about it. Each year is literally less time as it goes on.
I’m 27 too and I still watch my Gaming Edits back-to give me a hit of nostalgia, back to when I had big dreams, back to when everything was so simple, my only worry was being better then my IRL’s and the online mates I played with. I dragged that out so long that I went to uni and competitively grinded fornite and made some edits before I graduated and got a full time job. My ego has been recalibrating and letting go the big dreams of being a CoD/FN pro that I once had, accepting I work a 9-5 like the rest of the drones I know. Ironic, isn’t it? Your parents tell you to chase your dreams as you’re growing up but when it comes to it they would rather you be secure with a normal path to a job because the risk is too high.
All I can do now is embrace stoicism and setup a foundation to enable my future kids to achieve their dreams before they get thrown into the corporate cesspit or destroy their back working manual labour. Dreams and creativity is all they will have when AI and robotics replace the workforce.
Great comments and explains Nostalgia so well.
32 here and I can resonate with most of what you have said. Each day just blends into the next and the next thing you know, life's changed.
Time sucks. Live life the best way you can.
2:00 and this is great, you’re tapping into topics i’ve been thinking a LOT about but haven’t found the words to describe them. Days blending into each other, the good old days where one day seemed so nostalgic and long enduring, like the bike ride home in the cold weather felt different than the car ride (which you dreamed about driving yourself) to your now new home.
I’m 35, married, have a full time job and I’m responsible, I do home tasks, cook, etc. But I never lost my “younger me”, I love playing videogames although it’s not the same as before, mostly because now I have no friends. When I’m with my parents I still feel that I’m their little kid. I have big nostalgia and miss those days but the only thing we can do is to enjoy life and don’t waste time. Do what you love and be with the people you love, enjoy every moment of it!
Man I just turned 26 in a similar boat, good career so far, still at my parents and in the next stage of my life where things like video games don't feel the same anymore. For me MW and MW2 are my goats for COD, accepting the new responsibility and pursuing new adventures in life can definitely slow down the time and help get through some of the monotony when working for an employer.
Hi mate, im a French Guy. I never post any comment but its fantastic how i recognize myself in you. Im also a 27yo man and i have the exact same feeling of nostaligia and the research of balance between the nostalgia and the future. Because time fly very fast, i have a girlfriend, a job but not much friends. By the time it was like I was a part of a big community and Even if it was not friendly all the time during the game, it was a community. And i miss it. I realise now the importance of my mom, who was taking care of everything. Thanks a lot for your video bro !
Same situation here bro. A gf and not many friends, connections just slipped by, cant control it. You lose people along the way and takes too much effort to get back.
I think a big part of it is just that when ur 10 a single years worth of memories is 10 percent of your life. But when your 20 its only 5%. I remember being in K-6 elementary school feeling like it was never gonna end. When i finally went to junior high (grades 7-9) high school still felt very far away but i started to feel the passage of time. High school I only lasted until grade 11 before i started to fill it all slipping away, my childhood. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, i knew that soon highschool was gonna end and everyone i knew up to that point was gonna go their separate ways. I kept the same friend circle from K to 12 but now it was all going away along with my childhood. University i barely even remember it feels like a blip, the friends i made there feel like acquaintances and the memories of experiences i had there dont have the same sheen as memories from my K-11 years. I truly think that sometime in grade 11 my childhood ended.
When you are a kid, you dream of the freedom you will gain as an adult. When you enter adulthood, you then realise childhood was freedom. You are now bogged down by your job and other responsibilities.
I am at this stage now. I'm turning 24 soon and currently training to become a teacher. I only began the course two weeks ago, but I have already seen my free time disappear. I will always envy the times I had during high school and the sheer number of hours I had to game with my friends.
31 here. Since the days of og MW2 ended I’ve switched to PC, moved out of my parents house, got an AA degree, completed an enlistment in the Marine Corps., got married, got a BFA, became an animator, grays are popping up more frequently on my head and in my beard, friends and relatives have died… a lot has happened since then. One of the casualties of me making those steps was losing my passion for gaming. I still game once in a while with my real friends, but my gaming has almost completely stopped and pretty much every friend from my PSN era has moved on same as me.
We must accept nostalgia as part of life but not get lost in it. Most days I do not think much of the glory days of gaming. I do get lost in the routine - which I try to break when I can. I try to remind myself more glory days are ahead - kids, a great job, a nice friend group, ect ect. They’re wrapped up in the stages of our lives that can never be replicated later. Enjoy the now and be glad the past happened.
I'm sitting here watching this at 17, 10 years younger than you. It's so strange how I have nostalgia for when I was even 12 years old, which was only 5 years ago. It doesn't feel like it was very long ago, but at the same time I've changed so much. Anyway, I am still in my childhood and I want to enjoy it as much as possible.
we're the same age and yeah we're definitely getting older but there's a couple more years of us being a teenager so maybe lets not worry about the old times yet and just create new experiences
i’m 25 years old and this video just hits.. man thank you for those words sometimes it’s nice to hear other people talk about similar feelings i’m facing as well. feels nice to know i’m not the only one.. remember to stay strong guys !
I don't think it's even nostalgia it's the lack of quality in gaming. All devs seem super lazy and the games reflect that. They care more about skins than the quality of gameplay. It's just made for a completely new audience the originals never intended on hitting
While I DO indeed think its nostalgia, you’re totally right about the industry as a whole.
Live service games existed on PC for a long time, but the concept really took over the whole of the gaming industry, to the point where companies put most of their emphasis on the model of micro-transactions.
It’s less about putting their best foot forward into making the customer happy, and more about hooking the customer and milking them over a set period of time; this feels like they never really try to offer us something stellar.
Don’t get me wrong, there are still good gaming experiences out there. But I agree with you that the industry has changed and gems are rarer than they were.
I really appreciate this video man, you described how I feel perfectly. I am 25 now. I can remember being 10 years old playing MW2 like it was yesterday. This video helped me realize there's many people out there who feel the same way. Cheers man, and best of luck to you!
Childhood has been over for a big minute. It just feels good to reminisce on gold times
This video really hit me and reminded me how I always feel I’m 29 and honestly it makes me feel sad knowing how amazing life was as kids and honestly how depressing it gets as it goes on .
2:06 100% - After school and when you begin to stop partying and settle down and have responsibilities, the “friends” you used to have that have no responsibilities just dwindle away, as if you never even knew them.
You have hit the nail on the head, it's almost as if you spoke my mind. I needed to hear this right now, as it's comforting to me knowing I'm not going through these emotions alone. It's quite crazy how relatable your words are with me. I'm a very sentimental 28-year-old who has a lot of nostalgia for my peak gaming era (2007-2014), I often think about it and the nostalgia hits hard, but especially right now, as I'm currently going through a lot of significant changes in my life, such as moving out from my parents home and into a property with my girlfriend. I'm anxious and excited, as there's things to look forward to, but it's a trigger for nostalgia. I took a moment in my bedroom earlier to reflect because so many significant memories happened in here, particularly to do with gaming, as most of the golden era happened here. It felt like bittersweet farewell to that chapter of my life, but not a farewell to gaming overall, as even though I game less these days due to adult responsibilities taking up a lot of my time and energy, I will always be a gamer.
I feel exactly the same, I’m only 20 but the past few weeks I’ve spent more time in my room again as I used to when I was in my early teens ( majority of my teens really) and I’ve come to realise I’ve felt really nostalgic from little things from looking down stairs and it being dark at night, to just walking to the bathroom from my bedroom and for some reason it just feels like I want to relive them moments.
I also don’t want to move out right now as I have younger brothers and yes now they are reaching their teens or even halfway thru with one but I feel like I wouldn’t see them even 75% as much as I do now and I don’t want to miss that
ooo I remember those walks downstairs, when I was younger my xbox 360 was down there. When i'd turn it off and the lights off to go to bed, I'd always sprint up the stairs for no reason 😂
I did not expect to find a random MW2 commentary in the algo in 2024 that somehow aligns perfectly with the thoughts I had this week, crazy.
Glad I'm not alone, we're all in this boat together.
Letting your inner child out once in a while is a great motivator to do cool shit, I find that being curious is really all it takes.
Thanks for this vid man
Time is speeding up because we are in the end times. Even kids noticed this it's not about being older
Exactly 💯 great reset. Glad someone sees it
@@alaskanwhiskey Times are crazy and scary
Im 24, lost my mother few weeks ago died of cancer, and nostalgia now hits 10 times harder than before and i miss those good old days 20 times more. I get you when you said the death of your grandparents is an end of an era, it really is. Nothing is life changing more than a death of a parent.
R.I.P to my mom and your grandparents 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss, my condolences to you and your family.
I had more fun playing the demo discs for PS1 than I do now playing literally any new release
Same.. we were busy experiencing the games. Now, I think our minds are constantly judging and comparing them. I do think games then were better, but our perception plays a role too. It is more difficult to enter the moment now days. That's our battle.
I turned 24 yesterday, I started playing cod very early, started with cod4 at my cousins house every wednesday after school, then got a PS3 myself and bought MW2, prob my n°1 cod along with BO1, I really REALLY miss those times, especially BO1 times for some reason.. now let’s not get into the shitshow that my life is, bus great video, earned a sub
I feel like this video hit the intended audience, this helps a lot moving forward
I'm 26 rn and you really struck a cord in me, time passes and we can't do anything about it, but we do decide what to do with it, so might as well make the most of every moment
That was a beautiful introspection brother, I'll make sure to watch more of your videos, all the best
Sadly, I'm 35 and I'm still a child in a bad sense. I never had a real job or an education. I never had a girlfriend or friends. I still live at home. I don't have any money. Adult life sucks.
It’s up to soy me friend, try out something new. I know it is hard, but things will turn to the better!
I hear that brother. Adult life sucks and what you’re going through is common. It’s not that adult life sucks, it’s that no one told us what we would have to do/prepare for. One thing I guarantee would help you is setting a goal and working backwards. Adult life sucks, but ask yourself, what specifically sucks? What do you need to do change that and what are small steps we can take to get there. My goal is to make everyday better than the next, and while it’s tough, it’s possible but it comes down to a mindset. Goodluck with everything but just seeing you take to the comments shows that you’re acknowledging where you’re at right now and that you have room for improvement. Day by day brother!
I still play games and I don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as I used to when I was playing the old cod games. Except from a few games over the years I've always been craving the feeling and nostalgia they gave me. Friends don't seem interested in trying to go back and play older games, gaming is so competitive and unenjoyable now.
I got 2 nukes in one day on MW2 and I don’t think I ever got a nuke after that. First one on Favela and second on the snow map with the train. That was a decade ago or so and I remember it like it was yesterday.
Childhood nostalgia gets real strong in the late 20s into early to mid 30s. My unsolicited advice is that once you have had your fun with your reminiscing, bring a new life into this world. There is nothing like seeing the world become fresh and new again through the eyes of your child. A FAR more powerful feeling than your own nostalgia! Overwhelming at times!
You know what’s crazy I have the latest Xbox with the biggest tv and an awesome set up in my own house as a kid I struggled to get Xbox live gold I had to borrow accounts to play on !the issue is I sit on the dashboard scrolling for 20 minutes thinking what to play …..my wife asks what are you doing are you going to play anything?? In my head I’m thinking how good gaming used to be now it’s all trash so I end up putting the controller down and letting the Xbox turn off …..how insane is it that no one can make anything similar like the old days I really don’t understand.
(At least we all have these fantastic memories of what real gaming used to be boys ) oorah
I was doing this exact thing for so long i sold my Xbox
I’m 25 years old. I just finished a 2 hour sesh of going for nukes in Mw2, laid down in bed, set my alarm for 7:00 to work my 9-5, and opened TH-cam to this video. It’s comforting to know that other people experience nostalgia the way I do. This game especially always brings me back to the good ole days - friend’s house after school, Xbox after dinner, Saturday morning pancakes. I’ll always miss it, and I think that’s okay. We’ll always be kids at heart.
41 here...after say...35 it starts to go even faster. It's crazy.
I’m 31 not looking forward to that
I just turned 30 and the original MW2 was the last COD game i played with friends faithfully. Around that time I graduated HS and went to college and never really played COD as much from that point on… MW2 was the literal GOAT 😢
I got over nostalgia when nostalgia convinced me to buy very bad modern games a few times lol I just appreciate the good stuff we had and don’t try to chase capturing those feelings anymore. Truth is all these game franchises I grew up with are effectively dead, not a single one of them are any good and are remarkably different than the originals, not in a good way. If people enjoy that then all the power to them but Battlefield with no classes, CoD with Nicki Minaj instead of US Marines, and Marcus Fenix playing second fiddle to a bunch of millennial/zoomer self insert gears isn’t for me.
I’m 32 now. It feels like just yesterday I was diving into gaming sessions with friends, pulling all-nighters on games like *Battlefield* and doing carefree things. Life was simpler back then. Time has flown by, and so much has changed. Some of my family members are no longer around, and I’ve lived in different countries, making new memories along the way. Friendships from school and college seem to have faded away as everyone’s lives became busier. I’ve found myself pursuing different passions, focusing on my career, fitness, and personal growth. It’s wild to think that those days are now distant memories, but they still hold a special place.
I guess I'm a bit of an oddball here, I'm turning 30 soon and it feels like being 15 was forever, almost lifetimes ago. The new experiences part is probably what makes the difference, as in this time I have lived in 5 different cities, studied in 7 different schools and worked 5 jobs. I was a fucked up kid and I remember the intense depression and anxiety from my childhood and I know that right now I'm probably living the objectively best time in my life. But it still hits me different to remember the summers that felt neverending, playing Call of Duty and going out and about with my friends every day. It's odd, I woke up at 4am today and had the "Crossfire" map from CoD 4 in my mind, had a bout of nostalgia and the first thing I saw when I opened TH-cam was this video. There's a lot of work for me to do still, as the passage of time fills me with dread and the pressure to spend my days well and live my life to the fullest feels crushing, when just staying afloat has never been easy.
Thanks for this video, I’ve never shed a tear like ever before hearing this.
I’m 24, going for 25 in January, the work, eat, sleep process topic makes life drive the days faster, I just pray for better times to come
Hi everyone, I'm 29 now and a lot of you seem a little younger but I thought of myself as peak MW2 audience. I was 14 in 2009... How time flies. So yeah I just wanted to say this brought me so much emotion just listening to the voice over but what did it was the gameplay too. I haven't watched MW2 gameplay in so long and we all must have spent so many hours in these streets running around.... anyway, now I live in a small town in a flat. I waste 60+ minutes on my commute and spend my evenings doing chores. When I've finished cooking, cleaning, I'm so tired from the days work that I just hit the sofa or bed and fall asleep ready for the next day. Nothing beats the good old days.
So all sounds pretty suckish right? Well, yeah. Most of it is. Growing up is a trap, and all that.
Except, when I was 21 (2017) I had this little thing. I had a boy with my long term GF. And in 2022 we had our second son.
My boys William and Eddie are now 7 and 2. We bought WIlliam a Switch and he plays super smash brothers, kirby and Mario. and we have to give his younger bro Eddie a controller unconnected just so he can join in!
I get to experience so many things again through their eyes (soft play, video games, running around outside, riding bikes, playing football).
They have made my 20's bearable. And to anyone who may be in the wilderness of their mid to late twenties, I hope you look forward to these times.
To all those guys who are to yet settled down into relationships, or have kids of your own, it's true what they say about kids. They are a huge burden and responsibility. They will give you so much repsonsbility you've never ever had, but they are the most rewarding thing - even allowing you a window back into the age that you no longer are.
I wish you all amazing luck. Look forward to the future. It won't be the same as the past, but that doesn't mean you cant make it amazing and special and memorable.
I stumbled on your video in the recommended section, what a great find man. I'm 28 and just recently moved out with my GF and have been going through that phase myself. You explained it very well and you even helped me to understand it better for my life situation, I appreciate you and your video!
Nostalgia is very addictive and if you let go of responsibility it can be very unhealthy for your progress in life and for your relationships! We have to keep focus on our goals, objectives and who we want to become in life to not get sucked into that nostalgia pull. Thats my 2cents
Edit: It's all about balance in things.
Thanks man. Im 27, and my fiance just left me and is still living in our house…im at the point where life feels lived and unlived at the same time. I am grateful that I am not alone in this odd feeling of transition.
I'm 27 and your video brought a smile to my face . I don't necessarily think that the present is worst than the past , but the old days were definitely simpler . MW2 was my first call of duty . I still remember how I didn't spend any money just to buy the game at the end of the year with my PS3 . Hunting tactical nukes , MOABS , BO2 nuclear medals . I didn't buy a single COD game until 2019 and that game definitely brought back some memories . The bad thing was even then as a 21 year old I didn't feel the same joy playing , that excitement if you know what I mean. Warzone was refreshing until I reached Crimson , after that I lost all motivation to play these kind of games . It became way to sweaty and competitive . As you get older you find other things and activities that give you pleasure , happiness and joy . But your video brought back some memories and I thank you for that
Wow! this video was really insightful and touched nostalgia in an interesting way. Im about to be 25 late this month, I don't have a career but I'm making the right steps towards it. I've come to terms that my childhood is long gone, but I would be lying if I said I didn't dwell or look back on all the old friends, and awesome moments that have passed me by. It feels as though I graduated highschool only a couple years ago.. this is life and adulthood after all, life really shows how short it is when you can't even remember last week and it feels like 3 months ago was just yesterday. Thank you for the video, you earned a subscriber and I look forward to seeing what else you have in store. live life to the fullest, spend time with those you hold dear, and remember anything you love doing is not a waste of time. we don't have forever.
I always said how nostalgia is a drug. Looking through old photos and just reminiscing about old times. It kept me sedentary for many years before I realized I need to live life to make more moments worth looking back on.
Just turned 26 last month and I'm moving overseas to London UK and tonight's the big night that I fly off and start a new life for myself. Where did the time go, felt like last year I was 12 years old playing black ops 1 with ny older brothers and suddenly it's 14 years later and we're all in different periods of our lives and I'm leaving everything behind. It's all so bittersweet, my heart aches but I'm excited for what the future holds. This reminds me of a quote from a fallout new vegas dlc called Old World Blues: "there is an expression in the wasteland, old world blues. It refers to those so obsessed with the past they can't see the present, much less the future for what it is. The stare into the 'what was', eyes like pilot lights guttering and spent as the realities of their world continue on around them"
It's really refreshing seeing a positive view on growing up. I've been worried sick of graduating and dealing the passage of time of seeing free time i once had go away and relationships begin drifting apart ever since 8th grade
Never have a video been so relatable like this one I’ve watched today. Thank you for making this one👊🏽🔥
Growing up reminds me of finishing a beloved trilogy like halo 3 or mw3. You’ve been waiting years to reach that point. All the build up, the anticipation to finally see the closing of a chapter. It’s fulfilling to look back at all the events you experienced, at the same time it’s somber. You know you can’t step in the same river twice and get the same sensation. It’s a bittersweet sensation.
I'm also 27 and had struggled by extreme nostalgia. I couldn't enjoy the present because the past seemed so much better. My best tip is to do new things. Get outside and be active. Go fishing, go on hikes, play a sport, etc. Breaking your routine is what makes new memories and experiences.
Sometimes when i think back i almost want to cry of how good we had it all the games where always exciting and a different feeling as of today and not just games but the playfulness and excitment you had as a kid you start memorizing and thinking back of the good old days with you`re childhood friends and realize how good you really had it, its like i really want to feel that feeling again that you have almost completely forgot about its a different feeling you just can`t explain but its a magic feeling when you think back about it.