Uncomfortably familiar Childhood places but it’s sad and nostalgic (Liminal Space)
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- A liminal space is a place that Sparks bizarre emotions in you. These feelings are usually saddening or uncomfortable. With a very common emotion being déjà vu
The Sense of nostalgia from our childhood or earlier times in our lives can often be a sad feeling. The sense of sadness occurs when we are reminded of a better time, or when things were so much more simple. When we look back on childhood, it’s usually very vague and unspecific, but that is part of the reason why many of us feel so sad. Our memories are often vague because it was a simple time, where we didn’t have to stress or worry, we were all happy. And it’s sad to see that feeling go...
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Hey everyone, this time I tried something a little different. If I’m being honest with myself, I really miss my childhood, and looking back on the nostalgia can be a little sad sometimes
It was a time when everything was so simple, and there wasn’t any worries in the world greater than the playground and the toys you got. Even though the memories are vague, I remember being happy, and carefree. Times have been pretty hard for me lately, and sometimes I just hold out for a chance to feel like that again. Looking back on the memories I have from a child, it brings back happy memories, and you can’t help but smile, but there’s also a little sadness in that smile
All we can do now is look back on our memories, and cherish the memories we once had
When I die I hope I’m able to go back to my childhood hood I just wish I can start over sometimes
@@foreverstraps_9208 It's sad that we never notice that time passes very quickly. If I had one desire, I would only wish to start all over again in order to relive my childhood once again, and this time - enjoying it.
@@drive4326 It's pretty painful. Growing up, I genuinely was convinced I'd be a kid forever. I didn't care about anything except when the ice cream truck would show up. Life felt so easy.
But I didn't know it. I didn't cherish anything, I didn't savor any moments and now I'll never ever get them back. I'm only 17 now but I know it gets worse from here.
If I could go back in time and do one thing, I'd tell my past self to worship every second of his life. He has no clue how fast it's going at all.
Ikr I used to not be so nostalgic because I was younger but now those memories make me want to go back.
This is so true; I feel nostalgic for my childhood so often. I'm only 16, but my childhood feels like so long ago and like a different era.
What's interesting about these is that you can return to most of them. You can revisit the same places, but what is sad is that they can never be exactly the same as they were. There is a new context behind them, a sad, forsaken context.
Yeah... true....
Same with my old freindgroup before it was fun and I want to return to it evrey day as my new one is toxic but I also know it won't be the same as in the time period that we haven't met I went through a good amount of trauma and now were not innocent little kids anymore the world won't look as bright and things will be awkward. Before evrething seemed like a comforting nostalgic limal space now it all seems like those eerie ones. So if we meet there won't be that fun summer spark to it.
My preschool was amazing before but in present day it closed and now just a empty room with nothing inside
Places that looked big and adventurous in your childhood often look small and boring when you revisit them again as an adult.
@@salam-peace5519 so what you're saying is that we need to shrink ourselves
This is like inviting all your friends to your birthday party but everyone already left years ago.
WTF HAHAH “last online 6 years ago”
What
Inviting your friends but they never come
This isn’t what birthday parties normally look like?
Jokes on you I never had a birthday party :D
I feel so bad for the one's who had an horrible painful childhood and never had the chance to experience what we did.
Hello, that would be me
Mhm
Or maybe they did experience it and still had a bad childhood.
I am mostly in a wheelchair so I did not get to experience most of these. But yeah
That's me
This is why I tell 4-9 year olds to enjoy it. They can never go back. We can never go back.
I got told it so many times. It’s almost a punishment that at that age. You can never understand the weight of what your being told. You just look forward to being able to do “adult things” because your told you can’t. The curiosity of your mind shields you from the appreciation of simplicity and fun. The biggest pain is that kids these days. Won’t even have this…
yes but you make it worse. ignorance is a blessing, and you break it by telling them what happens when you are an adult. the reaction to this is most likely either dread, sadness, or curiosity
You gain something new but you loose what you had
@@irumasuzuki9074 "You got what you wanted, but you lost what you had."
I am 10 years old, i can still enjoy it until I head of to larger grades
This feels like going outside and playing with your friends for the last time but none of you know that it's the last time.
Well said. Yes!
Y’all really tryna make us cry
So deep... 😔
True
🥲
Nothing's more terrifying than when you feel your youth slipping away.
I kinda hope I'll die before 30 tbh. Because of the youth thing and my discomfort with life.
I just wanna see if I can experience some things first
True
sometimes i need to remind myself i’m still 16 and i’m still really young, but it just doesn’t feel like it, and it’s slipping away faster and faster as the years go by. i want to be 10 again...
these times weren’t even that long ago, but these liminal space photos still elicit tears from me nonetheless.
edit. now i’m 17 and a half. i be aging af
I don't even remember my youth.
@@trashygrape2922 wow u explained my feelings well
A stuffed bear once said, "we didn't know we were making memories, we only knew we were having fun"
Yeah, that’s probably why as adults and teenagers, we feel as if our childhood slipped away, and is now a distant memory... but isn’t it strange that we all had the same experience? We all have these same memories and childhoods, we recognize the music, we all made friends with a kid we would only see until mom was ready to leave the jungle gym. A comment above me said that the 2000s felt like a collective dream we all had, and the kids in those dreams were us, but we have woken up, we are not kids anymore...
@@GlutenFreeStudios the difference for me is that i don’t exactly feel sad leaving it behind. the past is the past, it’s done, it’s over with. i know i can do whatever i want to right now. i know i can make similar memories again in the perceived future. whether they’re good or bad, i’m just glad i can live my life at all.
@@ruesylvester true, but you have to admit, there was a certain sense of curiosity we had as kids, I get chills whenever I start up Wii Sports. It’s a reflex, the enjoyment of when we were little, the certain feeling we had of seeing what was on those screens, in the jungle gyms. So really it’s not that we are having terrible lives as adults, but more so we just know that we won’t have those new reactions to things, when I first heard the minecraft music in that time, all I heard was music, now I hear 8 - year old me and my friends playing the tutorial world.
@@GlutenFreeStudios I feel like no matter what time period we are in, we will always look back at what we are living through now and miss it. When we are kids, missing all the birthday parties, and the bouncy castles, and all the fun stuff we don’t get to do anymore. And then we grow up a bit, and we’ll miss our teenage years, we’ll miss being young and wild, going out with our friends till we can’t see the sun anymore, the feeling of having our first love, all of it. And when we get a little bit older, I’m our early twenties we’ll miss the excitement of being released into the world to do whatever we want, where we have become a functional member of society, moving out and buying our first home, getting married, all of it
And I know when we’re grown old, we’ll miss the moments of watching our children grow up, raising them the way we would have loved to be raised. And watching their progress in life will make us think back to each stage of our life that I mentioned, watching our children relive all your old memories that you miss. And at the end of it all, when we are on our death beds, I want to be able to look back and appreciate the life I lived, and to be thankful I got the chance to live all these moments, even the painful ones, for every painful moment there was, every rejection or time of mourning, I could learn, and made myself into the man I always dreamed of
And I chose the perfect life
@@GlutenFreeStudios we can enjoy and find curiosity just as much as when we're teens and adults, we just have to be open to it. doing things we enjoyed as a child or when we were younger can help with that, like playing wii sports for example. we might not be children forever, but we still have an imagination. it's all about keeping it active and thinking in creative ways
I'm 34. My little brother died when I was 11 and he was 9. These images evoke memories of my time with him, especially the waterpark ones. It's so weird to think about how over twenty years have passed for me but he will always be 9 and remembered in a world where these pictures were the present.
I Hope your all good now bro
May he rest in peace 🤍 So sorry for your loss.
That must have been so hard on you and your parents. I'm sorry for your loss. I wish you all the best in life.
I have a younger sister. I hope I never have to feel what you feel now. God be with you brother.
I hope your doing well we all pray that your doing well. God bless your soul. I’ll be there for you.
it’s sad that we once were so excited to be “big kids”, and now we just want to go back to the time when all of these places were magical to us.
I was just thinking about that. It's sad that we all view this as the happiest point in our lives. And it was only happy because we truly genuinely believed things would get better when we got older, but nope, this was the peak.
I just want my mama back
I just want my childhood back
Man I’m old
@@Morning_Dewdrop that sentence tear me up
This feels like you’re stuck in a time loop, but it’s only you. There’s nobody or anything else except for your memories. Like an upside down universe.
That makes me sad... Anyone feel the same... ?
@@afreshstrawberry5326 you not alone :,)
@@afreshstrawberry5326 it make me feel like I’m walking in space with my memories to the present day.
@@afreshstrawberry5326 I feel the same way my friend.
True
this is stupid but sometimes, when i see pictures like this, i always think of how quickly i let childhood slip away/how i was kinda forced to grow up quick. i feel like i pushed my childhood away and seeing stuff like this makes me regret it and makes me wanna curl up and cry. i miss when things were this simple.
Same....
Is 14 too late for childhood bc I am having an early life crisis bc of this video wtf happened to when I was younger why did it go so fast.
@@donovanennis7252 Nah you're right on time. Hang out with friends, try new hobbies, make mistakes all of them. Literally. Don't pass up any opportunities bc you are in a point in time where you are old enough to control your actions, but still young where when you mess up it's not a big deal. Live your life because you only get one.
@@chicub7749 literally tysm I needed something like that Rn. I just find it hard to balance basketball, relationships (I know 8th grade relationships sound dumb), school, and trying to find out My passion while still having a childhood. Don’t wanna be the person that always has an excuse I just don’t know where to go with this problem so... maybe some ppl in yt comments can help me
@@donovanennis7252 These are all very mature and valid thoughts to have. First off go easy on yourself you are human so it is natural not be perfect all anyone can ask is that you give it your best shot even when it gets hard and don't give up. Ever. Secondly remember that life is not linear there are a million different paths for you to take and nothing is final. Thirdly don't take life so seriously. Yes, some days you are going to work until you fall asleep, but others you gotta get out there and explore the world with people you care about. You have a lot of time to develop and find your passion just gotta keep working hard and you'll make it. You are smart, hardworking, and most of all persistent. When things get hard think of all the people you have rooting for you and will get your back if you ever fail. Your story is just getting started make one you'll be happy to remember when you get older.
Being a kid born in 2000 and living through the leftovers of the 90's this stuff is very familiar. Crazy how much can change in 23 years.
Best way to describe those times. I remember when kids still played outside and could actually be kids before technology took over. I’d do anything to go back to those times
@@dedted9579 Most of the kids today that I've seen are addicted to disposable vapes, they bully eachother and they're glued to social media. I'm trying really hard to not boomer-post but it just seems to be true. It's sad.
Well I’m born in 1999 and the stuff is familiar to me as well
Born in 1998 and I understand what you are saying
You never know that your childhood is just remains of your parents’ until the same happens with you and your kids
Sometimes I feel like the 2000s were this collective dream everyone had that faded away somehow.
I was born in 2003 and i agree.
@@Scionmaster5213, rhymes.
I agree immensely.
I was born in 2005 and I agree too... *Hugs someone while crying in nostalgic Hylian sadness*
2000s and the early 2010s were the best
There’s a reason our parents told us “don’t rush to be an adult” we didn’t listen....
We were tired of being treated like”kids” that it went over or heads....
So I get it, except I figured out the world when I was 7 years old, with all it's flaws. So I never really got to experience the childhood everyone else says they had because nothing really felt the same to me after that.
It’s...honestly heartbreaking, when we’re little all we want is to grow up and become adults but when we finally are adults...all we want is to be kids agian...
Enjoy while your still a kid until it lasts you don't realize how much time you have on your hands until you grow up
i feel like i never got to have a complete childhood and it’s coming from me, someone under 15.
i was and still am emotionally neglected by every adult around me. they told me to deal with it and that only adults felt those feelings, therefore what i felt did not exist. it was a phase. this made me feel like an adult and try to act more like one. i wish with all that i have, that i was still naive and dumb at my current age. but now i don’t feel or think in a child mindspace anymore.
i lost enjoyment in toys.
i lost enjoyment in playing pretend.
i thought that if i was mature people would believe me and understand me and help me feel okay. i began feeling embarrassed doing things my age. of other kids in my age. no more dolls, no more pink, no more pretty things, no more dresses. and here i am. i never got to enjoy these things for so long. i grew up too early, and i hate it. i grew up too early, and i can never, ever, go back, and now that i’m “mature” people just believe me less.
that’s why every time i see videos like these i just want to cry because i feel like i missed out on being the child i wanted to be. i hope someone out these feels the same as i do. i missed out on so much and just want to be a dumb kid getting stuck in the tubes at chuck e. cheese.
true...
5 year old me: I WANT TO BE A TEENAGER!!!
my mom: but its going to be hard-
5 year old me: dont worry, it wont be!!! ^w^
12 year old me (now): i wish i was right back then :c
This is like the end credits of your childhood man this is sad
Couldn’t have put it into words better. It doesn’t even need to have people’s name on the pictures, they do it on their own
the music is minecraft end credits
A little different for me but it is vr green brush wearing a hat that says sorry I'm retarded on it. Yes it is
I have the same feeling except add fright to that
@@spycrab3723 which one?
Born in 2004, in 2 months I’ll be 20 years old. Watching this video made me nostalgic, emotional yet comforting. We saw everything bright and magical, no stress, no worrying, no negativity, just you and your friends playing outside and having a good time. Sometimes we couldn’t wait to get older. Now we realized getting older isn’t so easy. We shouldn’t be sad because it’s over, we should be happy because we experienced it. ❤
I know what you mean, I was the same way growing up but now sometimes I wish I could tell and convince my younger self back in elementary school to not be that way.
It even weirder when you realize these were all probably real places that have since been abandoned or forgotten
Or these places continue to exist, supplying new generations of kids with these same memories we miss so much. And we’ll look back on them together someday, someday far from now we’ll miss them together. Maybe someday even, we’ll take our children to the same spot, and supply them with the childhood we miss so much
@@ObsidiousYT Damn.
fun fact:
at 0:17 I’ve actually been there. my mom has pictures of me against that wall from when I was young. It’s still open and kids still go there, it hasn’t changed in 7 or so years. :)
@@sparkIejumprope where is it?
@@ObsidiousYT like the last photo, which opened only four years ago
*”..why does nobody want to play with me?”*
@@niklam3341 Same here :(
my childhood resumed in one sentence lol
Damn that actually made me sad cuz I never had any friends during childhood and I was always sad but I never said anything abt it
HELP IM HPLDIN IN MY TEARS
feels like my life right now. nobody really wants to hear an ND kid rant about her special interest anymore :')
The sad thing is you could try to visit the places as a teen or an adult and even though it looks exactly the same as before something just seems off and the atmosphere doesn’t feel right
Sadder thing is when you visit the places as an adult when you see in the outside it looks like it’s open but right when you enter it’s empty and it’s now just an abandoned building.
Exactly! I can’t quite place it
thats so right. I remember going to a pool in my childhood (cuz i don't have a pool in my house) but it was fun but now when im older the atmostphere doesn't feel right
Facts bro
Couldn’t have said it better myself, amigo
Sometimes, I just need to cry, and in those times, I just come here to let it all out.
It's okay man. Take your time. Everything is ok :)
@@MicrowavedMediaBro today (April 1) I turn 16 and now I feel like a grandpa in the body of a teenager
@@diegonotdrkatz happy birthday man. (also I'm 15 and I feel the same way lol, my back aches alot )
Dudes, enjoy your life, I am 23 and I can really feel the pain of the old days, mark my words: tomorrow you are going to miss this current day. Have a lot of fun because torrow you will miss it.
me too lmfao
Nostalgia is one of the most saddest, terrifying, sweetest, yet unknown feeling in the world.
no, is not terrifying, is seriously good and important.
Nostalgia and arousal are the best and worst feelings in the world.
I just cry every time I think of my past, I’m really young so I really shouldn’t.
@@nourmals Fr
I love the feeling of nostalgia, it's so strange and reality-detaching, I adore it.
Oh fuck, 4:35 hits different. Being left in the kiddy spot while your mother explored IKEA, making a friend you would never meet again while a DreamWorks movie you'd never seen before played on the little screen in the corner.
Bro im spanish sorry for my english but i really feel your coment xd
@@Gosexd your English is very good!
@@Gosexd también soy española, no pasa nada jajaj
@@asantaimeep jajajaja me flipan estas imágenes dan sensación de soledad y nostalgia al mismo tiempo es una sensación difícil de expresar
Oh my gosh.... I was always scared from the web part
I remember when my mom told me "take advantage of the few years you have left of childhood, since they are probably the only ones in which you will truly be happy" now I understand what she meant
:(
Fr, when you're old enough to understand you wish you could've just gone back and cherish the good memories.
@Maxinfo910 T Hell ye
Sometimes you can revitalize your childhood by reminiscing and making new memories along the way. There some people out there I know that never had a childhood. At the end of the day it's love that really counts. Part if that kid inside you is still there.
@Maxinfo910 T Thank you for making this comment dude it helped.
3:18 This hit me hard. I celebrated my birthday at an indoor playground when I was in 5th grade and this reminds me of the table we sat at. I had a chair that looked like a throne, topped with a crown and coloured golden. I am no longer in contact with any of the friends who I invited. We grew up to be too different to remain friends, but I was still glad the friendship was there while it lasted.
I literally remember this I had my birthday there the nostalgia hit me hard.
Bro my friends literally had bday parties there too 😭
It’s pretty awful how everything that we once thought was so magical can end up being so extraordinarily painful to look at.
For me it's not painful, it's just like I cant get thru the veil and go back. It kills me inside to see we have lost our childhood innocence, these days its eat or be eaten, that picture at the end made me see things in perspective, the picture with the bedroom and the Mickey mouse plush. Holy shit, we threw it all away, but it's to late technology became advanced and we lost ourselves we lost those true moments
@@litcostello1223 yeah and for some reason it’s kind of soothing for me
Modern architecture is painful for some reason.
All those bright colours and smooth surfaces were just concealing us from the real, harsh world. I say I miss it, but if it was all just a lie, maybe it's for the best that I'm not trapped in such a fake reality.
Beautiful words, thank you Captian Cunt.
“what’s corona?”
“it’s 2006, man. it was all just a bad dream.”
“you’re home.”
“now let’s go to hot topic and listen to the strokes!”
My tears went all the way down to my chest..
@Philip LoCastro
You ruined it
Haha it's 2021 and The Strokes are my favorite band!
All those things are terrible and I'm graduating with no plan. Oh well, certainly this suicide attempt will HAVE to work.
Several excruciating days later: DAMNIT.
If you have nostalgia... I guess you're lucky.
I wish…
what makes this even crazier and more sad is that we’re only ever going to get farther from these memories, almost like being on a train that only takes you farther and farther away from what was once your home.
Oh god.. That's true.
All we have are our memories. Let's never lose them
Ouch..
Oof... :’ (
Never loose the memories we have, because this train will not stop and we’ll never be able to get off.
this is sad-and deep. being born in the late 2000s/early 2010s, i never got to be in any of these. kids today are born and raised on electronic devices, and these fun places are being closed down because most people got addicted to social media, tiktok has brainwashed us. some of these places are still open, but i never really got to play inside them…… i feel bad for kids today.
right on man.
I think it’s everyone born after 2008 who did this.
I was born in the late 2000s and a lot of this stuff is also nostalgic to me
@@wilcowen ye
I wish I could go back
I was in my feelings up until the dashcon ballpit.
Then I started laughing.
Oh my god the dashcon ballpit 😂
timestamp?
Yeah lmao
Literally exactly that fucked up the vibe omg 😂😂😂
I didn't laugh, but something in my closet did.
Some of these feel like the places your rich friend's parents would take you to, and then you would ask your parents if you could have a birthday party at these places, and they say no because "no", and then you realize how much nicer your friends stuff is compared to yours, and you realize the real reason why your parents said no.
Or when your parents told you as a kid they would buy you that toy next time, or told you that you couldn’t get that toy you really wanted. You’d feel angry and sad as a kid, blaming your parents for not getting you the toy, Only to realize when you’re grown up that they really wanted to buy you that toy, they wanted to make you happy, but they didn’t have the money to do so
@@ObsidiousYT Ohhh 🙁
@@ObsidiousYT :(
@@ObsidiousYT yea we were kinda poor so my grandparents would buy most of my toys and id always be so exited to see them
You hit my heart..
“You don’t appreciate your childhood until you can’t experience it anymore.” - A Wise Man
you dont apretiate anything until you cant experience it anymore
Facts
Wise fox
fax
@@inhabitantwaps3qs803 That’s the correct answer
Imagine before the moment you die you get one last chance to revist your past memories like this.
I had a feeling of sad nostalgia quite recently. I came to the realization, upon the emptying of my grandparents house after they both passed, that I will never make memories there anymore. Their dogs are re-homed and those years of Christmas scavenger hunts and hearing my grandmother sing in German are over. I felt lost without this sense of familiarity and comfort. But then, another thought came to my mind. Now is the time to make new family memories, just with a different role placed on me. I will no longer be the child, but rather the aunt or mother some day. I will be the creator of memories for the children that come into my family next. After all, if nothing ends, then nothing new can begin. It's time for me to let go and start anew.
DONT MAKE ME CRY..
IM NOT CRYING
DONT MAKE ME CR-
I’m legit crying rn and I’m having lunch help
Holy crap your right. My great grandma passed away Thanksgiving 2019. I just now realized that that was the end of the good times. No more walking over to her house when I'm at my grandma's house, no more spending the day at walmart with my grandma, sister, and great grandma, no more looking forward to spendong a week there during the summer (well we still will butbits not the same) *I'm gonna cry. I wish i never grew up*
Life really is all about moving on isn’t it
ily
*Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.*
Very nice, is this your quote or from something else? I'd like to know the source
U are so cool
True adulthood is knowing it doesn't exist
@@thediscountwombat It's a quote by C. S. Lewis :)
Why isn't this top comment?
I miss when everything was so easy. The amount of regret I have for saying I wanna grow up when I was younger is a LOT. I just wanna go back to when I was 7. Everything felt so fake, like it was a dream. But a good dream.
Same thought here...
Ikr
This is actually sad.
Same. I just wanna go back to when I was 5. I was happy almost all the time, and it felt like there was so much stuff to learn. Space, science, animals, they were wonders to me. Those topics still fascinate me, but they don't fill me with the sense of pure wonder and curiosity that I felt back at that age, and it makes me so sad.
Same; I graduated 8th grade when covid hit, so I was pretty much ripped out of my childhood. I never saw a lot of my friends again, and i haven't even been inside the school since March 13th.
I've actually seen 4:31 somewhere in a TV show I used to watch as a kid. It was about a kid with blue clothes who hung out with a duck and an elephant, and I think it was called "Pocoyo". I could swear this was somewhere in the show.
I remember it too!
I thought the same thing
RIGHT, But it is from Pocoyo a comment confirmed it
I loved that show as a kid! I'm glad other people remember it. All my life I felt like me and my brother were the only ones who watched it 💀💀
I still remember watching pocoyo and dido the gift dragon so much
I think it's safe to say:
The 90's and early 2000s were the best time to be a kid.
God i miss those simple days without a care in the world.
I wish I was born when doom came out I love that game as you can see
@@deznnob3791 yes that’s what I meant thanks for correcting me
@Bezz Make me! 😒
When I was little we used to go to the same big mall almost every weekend, then ate at McDonald's and got home when it was already dark. For my parents it was probably nothing special but for me it was always so exciting. Really miss this feeling.
i was on the cusp on 2000s i missed it by a couple of years (2009💀)
Optional title: Places you’ve met friends you’ve never seen again
EDIT: Lots of people have been really moved by this comment, nice
Omg stoppp
@@ethanstarr6435 :)
Stooooop
and that’s true :’)
Brooooooo you did not
Seeing them completely lifeless makes it just that much more sad.
Agreed
Pov: You finally came back to good ol' days but... nobody is there anymore...
Fr.
Goodbye, once again, childhood. Now I‘m viewing you like a loved one passed away. Like a second mother or maybe a loving creature that introduced me life.
Sad Reality sets in
you should be a writer
Think about this, you can drink, drive, buy McDonald’s whenever you want, get that 1 ice cream cake you saw at Walmart, and can even buy a gun.
@@elanrg Always thought of that, but I don't drive yet.. once I do. I'm gonna start my Journey to find my Liminal Home
😞This hurts
For all the people who never had the childhood they wished to have: its going to be okay, they cant hurt you anymore.
😐
I'm not crying your crying
@@bailey-il6ui 😐
@@annagreen9560 Whats wrong?
I ha no cholehood
childhood:
world is simple
nothing to worry about
fun
can’t wait to get older
when you actually get older:
life is hard
make me 5 again
work
money
nostalgia
The world is simple when you are young and happy, while adulthood you have to pay house payment, child care, tax, money, banking, ETC
Exactly
*RIGHT IN THE FEELS BRO*
Good job explaining life
Bro your profile pic probably means you're 15 years old, you're still young
Imagine beeing a very old person watching their childhood memories though this. We loved this time because we were always protected with no worries, and just living the moment. But what an old person would appreciate is the amount of potential and time we still had back then. If you are a millenial or gen z watching this, try to do the same, because there is still a lot ahead of you.
Everything back then was so colorful and vibrant even on rainy or overcast days
Mhm
Very true. I wish I could go back to those days.
That was such a good way to describe it
Yeah.
I recently have been in a few furniture stores, and all of them were filled with very muted colors. It felt washed out and kinda sad. The only colorful item I found in an entire store was this multicolored posable lamp with 5 lights. I bought it then and there and it makes me so happy. I honestly thought that I was the only one to notice on how dim everything looks and it’s nice to see I’m not the only one
"mom I made a new friend at the IKEA play house."
"That's great Come on sweetheart we have to go home."
that hit
Me in 2015
That hit really hard, I always used to make friends in the ikea play area :(
There’s an ikea play area?????!!!!
@@NoName37124 yeah!! It’s called smaland
There’s nothing I miss more than when Carmel came with the apple bites at McDonald’s
Omg!!!
They.. they dont anymore??? 😭
I hated caramel for years because I thought all caramel tasted like that dipping sauce.
They don’t have caramel sauce anymore???😢
@@alysonk5853 no they discontinued that in 2011 for health concerns, which honestly makes sense cause I used to lick the packet clean😭😂
All this locations seem to be filled with serenity, that you used to feel as a kid in familiar places but now when you are an adult, that feeling is just... gone. You can only feel its echo in such images
If you go back to those places when you're older it is missing a certain feeling.
@Mystery Gamer id be sitting on top of that one thing I could never reach and u weren’t supposed to reach its a giant fake tree at the mall in the play area!
Oh wait I forgot it got hit by a tornado and they are tearing it down…
@@Quartz_the_Moth-cat Same
@@Quartz_the_Moth-cat oh
i went to the skating rink i went to when i was younger and i felt uncanny valley but i did not tell anyone
This music sounds like you're walking into the distance with you're childhood self.
Yes
Yes! Bring me back to before 2013!
@@DarthOkamo I will go with you
I want to be happy like how you were my childhood self!
C418
Words can’t describe how badly I wanna go back
Theres no way to go back. But dont worry, everything happens for a reason.
I feel the same way
Same
you and me both
Soon you'll be saying the same thing about now
Anywhere from 2000 through 2015 had the classic cartoon design and was full of color. Everything was just simple
I'm in my house but I want to go home.
best way to describe it
Yep, been feeling that way for a very long time.
its gets better i swear, i was there for so long
Same
Well not in my house house but still
I also realized that this is more uncomfortable because there are no people. It's lonely, limitless, and dreamlike.
Not to get too deep or anything but 🤷♀️
That's true, actually. Places that are normally crowded, now empty. It gives us a feeling of discomfort.
Everything comes to an end..
That’s liminal spaces for ya
Everything fades away... Though the image of Toys R Us at the beginning of the video made my eyes water remembering that I was 13 years old when Toys R Us closed....
Yep my childhood if no parents
I hate this thought: Every family member, pet, celebrity, neighbor, we have to watch them all die, and the only alternative is a freak accident that ends your life early. This is the morbid reality of this world. Every generation has to deal with this, and this video is my reminder that now so do we
The pet death I can so relate to so far
This made me cry you're so right
The scary part is that you'll be next.
You don't know what death will be.
Nobody told you what it looked like because they died
Cruh Lifeline!
Doesn't matter how wealthy you were, doesn't matter who you met, your job doesn't matter,doesn't matter if you had children or not, doesn't matter if you saved someone's live!
Doesn't matter, all your efforts are in vain
Not just your life, but the entire human species will eventually come to an end... Who cares about what you do? We are not alone in the universe, probably just another species that will die out and be forgotten
It's harsh but it's the truth.
I’m a teenage girl, and lately I’ve been feeling lonely. I remember a time where I was able to play with people just like that, or able to be content with playing by myself. I wish making and keeping friends was that easy. And I wish the isolation didn’t hurt as much. I do like being alone sometimes, it’s comforting. But it gets old.
Same I’m a teenage boy on the younger side(I’m 14) and I’m lonely despite having a ton of friends I never see the ones I’m still close with and I feel like I’m being left behind again by my friend group and my community. The last time I was left behind( i was 10) was after Covid where I haven’t seen a lot of my friends from before the pandemic in years
Take care you guys, hope things are going well for both of you. All we can do now is move forward, we’ll live to see the good in our lives.
Everyone else: Talking about how nostalgic the pictures are.
Me: WHO IN THE HECK TOOK THE PICTURE?!?!
The pictures take themselves.
i took the photo at 7:50 so... sorry to ruin the illusion haha
@@Samantha_Lee yooo rlly ?? why was the space so empty ?
oizyzz it’s a dying mall so it doesn’t get too much business nowadays. there were people elsewhere in the mall though just not in the arcade
@@Samantha_Lee oHH thats cool!! thanks dude
This makes me really miss the days before we learned that life wasn't fair and our parents weren't perfect people and didn't know everything. When the only things that mattered were saving up enough change from lunch money to get a cool eraser at the book fair, going to birthday parties at random local arcades, and chasing the ice cream truck barefoot on the hot pavement.
The glory days of childhood maybe over, but it's crucial to keep those memories intact. To share those with others and perhaps if you do, to your children.
this comment gave me chills :(
Damn this really made me cry 😢
“and our parents weren’t perfect people” that hit so deep
@@chiimoe4787 ikr that’s what really got me
“Pandemic? Quarantine?”
“Dude wake up! It’s 2010. Let’s eat cookies as we watch
Phineas and ferb and play our ds!”
This made me burst into tears
I wished it happens but everything is messed up 🥈🕣🥈🔢
God damnit this just hurts my heart..
God daamn that made me cry..!! 😭
*why must you*
*hurt me this way*
“Do you ever look at an old photo and wish that you could re-live it even just one more time?”
“This looks... familiar. Vaguely familiar...
Almost unreal yet... it’s too soon to feel yet.
Close to my soul, and yet so far away...
I’m going to go back there someday.”
- Dave Goelz as Gonzo, The Muppet Movie.
corny
Shut up.
@@minimoog1600 U SHUT UP
WHATS CORNY IN THAT I CANT
@@bubblelovessans U mad for what?
Who else wishes that their childhood could just, come back to them? Is that just me?
No no it’s not just you 🥲
No.. It's not just you...😭
jokes on you i’m still in it
You aren’t alone waaaaaaah
Man I'm 17 and I really don't wanna turn 18😔
I want to go back to the 2000's when everything seemed perfect. When I could have no problem making random friends I'd never see again, when I could be ambitious, when I could be free. When I could day dream in class. When I could just.. yknow, run around in the store while mom was returning something. When I was care free. I really do want to go back. Even if I turn back into a child who can't decide for themselves, I'd prefer that. I want a fresh start.
I know how that feels...
when ignorance was bliss and it starts changing when people tell you to "grow up"
So, I am a child and turns out that I get it because I had that feeling when I was 2 and it stopped at 7 years old when I figured out the "Real World" with all it's bad things and I just hate it.
When I could still smile and laugh even when people I knew since I was born died, convinced they were “still with us”
@@crazybot1123 My parents told me about the real world when i was 4
I went to Pump-It-Up for birthdays in my childhood. That place was incredibly fun but for the most part was a distant memory. To see it here was such a mindfuck.
I remember having my birthday there it was the best experience ever now it just doesn't feel right anymore.
"It's enough to make a grown man cry and that's ok"
I’m 15, I still cry when I watch this
@@garythesnake667 i’m 18, and i’d give anything to go back, even for 15 minutes
@@garythesnake667 me too, I just miss my childhood - or what’s left of it anyways
@@lordfarquaad5268 I miss childhood, I really hope you get some clarity from this video
I guess I’m emotionless
As kids, we had no idea we were living the dream. Once we hit puberty and become a teenager, nothing feels the same.
same, even though i'm still kinda young
We're teenagers, but we're still kids.
@✨Perfect✨ Teenagers are kids, though. Plus, I don't want to grow up.
@fallen-bird Same.
Oh boy, wait till you get to your mid 20’s and are thrown into the real world. You’re gonna miss being a teenager. Or at least, you’ll miss the opportunities you never took.
As someone who grew up very poor,I can’t relate to most of these photos.A couple here and there give me a little nostalgia,but that’s about it……..sadly.
But I’m sure you have other memories that give you nostalgia…..other places and times and people that make you feel that childhood nostalgia from so long ago. Ik i do, my family never really went to these kinds of places pictured in the video, but I get so much nostalgia from different places or other things sometimes.
I can relate to that. I have a lot of other memories that can make up for it though mainly places I used to go all the time, like a friends house, old music I listened to all the time when I was little, and at least one video game which was Mario kart Wii. It was the only game me and my sister had for years and we loved it so much. Since my mom was a single parent it was hard to get are own Wii for ourselves, so me and my sister decided to put the money that we got from our mom and dad together to get it. It was really the only thing we got that year, but we loved it so much.
U had to include that u were poor?
👃 🧢
I didn't grow up in the USA so I can also relate to you on not finding these images nostalgic. But there are definitely soo many other things that do it for me
I always took the saying " enjoy your youth" for granted but now that ive gotten older I wish I would've taken it into consideration.. about how fast time flies..
I want to go to McDonald's again and feel the emotion of sliding, playing and waving at my parents from the top of the games, I want to feel careless and without any type of anxiety of the future
I don't remember mc donald's having slides anymore...
Me too
I just wish i could do that so fucking bad…
Even as just a teenager this feels like life flashing before your eyes
The image at 0:57 seconds really hit me emotionally in like 5 different ways and I don’t even remember going to a place like this. Lol
Same
Try being an adult 😞
@@douglasbullet6456 yeah I’m a teenager don’t want to be an adult just want to be a kid forever
@@Jelloonpellow same…
“W-where am i..??”
“Oh!, your awake now”
“What..?”
“You fell asleep for a while..”
“I did??”
“Yes”
“Where are we?”
“Home.”
“Alright.”
We have to grow old, but you dont have to grow up.
I swear, I was 7 yesterday and I had just been to these places and had my birthday party, played tag and climbed the jungle gym with my school friends, ran up to all the aracde games.
Cherish every day when it comes ❤
We were all children once. So young and full of hope.
Hope is a lie
@@mr.x2567 perhaps you're right, perhaps you are...
This one goes out to all the friends we made in the span of an hour at places like these, then never saw again. Though I may not remember your names, I hope you’re all living healthy and happy lives.
@Robert Cleveland 484 thats gotta be the dude that i saw at universal
I think that’s the guy I met at that waterpark
@@katishkittykat lol 👍👍
Aw I remember when I was like 6 I made a friend in the McDonald’s playground but I never saw him again after that:((
I once made a friend in the Mc Donalds play place, then I saw him again a few weeks later. One more time. And that was it. And you never know, anyone in this reply section could’ve been my friend
What’s even sadder is the fact these play places Probably no longer exist anymore because of the pandemic.
The playplaces were funner in the 2000s. Idk what happened but they became mundane
@@piss7610 wish I was around for that
Or remodels
^^ Yeah, kinda reminds me of they redid McDonalds. Now it's just some ugly brown/black building lmao
They probably still exist in Roblox weird core games but not all of them..
Don't live in the past, man. There's no shame looking back at once was, everyone does it, but please don't dwell on it. I heard someone say that these pictures are like what you would see if you went back in time, but no one is there when you go back. The reasons these pictures awaken such a feeling, is because we remember the memories of the past. But don't forget that you can make memories just like this, and in 20 years you'll see a photo that awakens that memorie. What makes life so meaningful is the people around you, you and them, make the memories and these pictures so meaningful.
“What’s Going On”
“Dude, let’s wake up. It’s 2004, let’s watch spongebob squarepants”
“Oh god coronavi-“
“It’s 2004 let’s go watch final wars!”
i wish...
@@kolpkii yeah I wish I can time travel so I can go back in time :(
ah yes i miss 2004 when i wasnt even born
I would love to, sadly I can’t for speecific reasons
Even as a teenager, I still miss so much from my childhood. The thought of just waking up with no worries or stress, then to just play and mess around, without ever thinking about growing up.
I wish I could go back to that.
You do realize that, as a teenager, you are still kind of a child. You still don't know a lot about the world but you are getting a vague outline of what it should be, how it should work. When you were younger the world seemed so strange, so alien, so new and you wanted to know everything you can about it.
Now as a slightly older child currently transitioning into adulthood, to world doesn't seem so strange and magical, you see it for what it is. You see what you are on the world. Just another person living out their mundane life like everyone else is.
As a fellow teenager, my advice to you is to keep those beautiful memories of the time you didn't know aside, keep it in your mind. Just don't think about it too often, nostalgia is something you should feel when something takes you back to it, you should stop longing for the days when life was all about just being in the moment and having fun. Because in these years of your life it still is, so I urge you to go and do something you enjoy whatever it is, go do something stupid, something fun. Something teenagers do.
I want you to remember all you have is now, the moment you go to sleep and wake up to a new day you lose yesterday forever. So enjoy today however badly you think it went. Might just be the last time you get to enjoy it.
True
Bruh I had to wake up full of stress already when I was 9
@@spongebobsquarepants8403 wow thanks :)
Being in the ballpark, climbing on slippery mini parks for kids in malls, sliding down the bouncy slide. It’s all gone. As an adult you can never experience what we did as kids. Our childhood was made for us to be happy.
I think the emptiness is what gets to me in a lot of these pictures. They seem so familiar, yet empty. Almost feels like a reminder that those times are gone, and I can never go back. The people I loved are either gone or still with me, but it isn't the same.
Best way to describe it.
yeah, and it makes you oddly emotional. Don’t know why.
Fr.
@@lucaseditz1817 A few make me extremely uncomfortable, as the feeling of something almost inhuman being somewhere beyond the image scares the shit out of me, while some make me sad and nostalgic, its really crazy.
Notice how there are no people in any of these images.
I am Japanese. I have never been to the U.S. and have never been to any of the places you see in these pictures. But for some reason I feel very nostalgic for my childhood in 2000's America. Colorful but empty playgrounds bring out very strange feelings. I like this very much.
These are photos that happy children would remember. As a victim of long term child neglect, I have little recollection of any of these places.
@@ChocolateCosmos Agreed, I have a longing to have these type of memories as someone who suffered from extreme sexual abuse as a child.
Poser
@@Cloudthecat666 What? I know that abusing is wrong, but a lot of people pretend to be abused on the internet and I simply don’t like that. Domestic violence is a huge problem, and taking it without seriousness is a problem.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 omg I’m so sorry, I’m just a stupid child. I thought I knew what I was talking about, I’m very sorry for saying what I thought was good but now regret.
@@Cloudthecat666 Nah, no problem. I think I should have said something more other than just “poser”
Maybe, in another life, we can fully live through these memories again.
Maybe, just maybe
I don't believe in the "past lives" thing I don't want to be someone else.
@@St0pLookingAtMyProfile you could become Steve
@@kannonkare7033 I am steve
@@St0pLookingAtMyProfile You could become Steph
Me as a kid: "I wanna be an adult already"
Me as a teenager:
Even when I was younger I didn't want to grow up. Never understood why kids wanna grow up so fast
@@lp1a_ same
I'm 12 years old am I really going to feel like that because right now I want to be a adult
@@pistolparker3605 bro, trust me even though im only 5 years older. Things change too easy. feels like just 5 years ago I was in elementary school with my best friends. Now, im a senior in high school, everything moves to fast
@@yotypicalgamer2727 are you making fun of me
I really took being a kid for granted. I miss when my mom and dad would let me sleep in their bed after a nightmare, i miss when going to the store was a fun trip with Mom, i miss when my favorite stuffed animal was the fluffiest thing i would always hold, i miss going to elementary school and having fun, i miss the games me and my little sister would play outside, i miss the naive curiosity i had, i miss going to work days with my dad. I just miss being a kid. I had a good childhood dispite the difficulties of poverty, i thank my parents for that but i definitely took it all for granted.
This just made me cry and hit me straight in the feels.
2:23 - This image for me, invokes the same feeling as leaving school on your final day. A sense of such intense, overwhelming melancholy washing over you. You understand all too well that once you leave that building, you are never coming back. It feels bittersweet, as all throughout that school year, all you really wanted was to go home, but now that the moment has finally arrived, you feel that you don’t want to leave. You don’t want to leave all of those memories behind. I mean, this is basically the setting of your childhood, this is where it all happened, and when you take one step out of that door, you’re not just leaving your school, you’re leaving your childhood behind.
Omg yessss
Seeing this reminded me of moving out of my hometown. I had friends and family there, so leaving school on the last day felt like the world was ending.
why is this so true
Or you've just arrived for a dance or event after hours.
Idk why but the same one almost made cry idk even why there’s nothing about it to trigger anything like that
I don't know what's more saddening to me: the fact that I'll never know places like this again or the fact that, chances are, nobody from here on out will ever know places like this at all.
It really is like these places just disappeared. I would not even know where to look for them.
There's an indoor playground where I live that looks like these pictures. I just took my 3 kids there a couple weeks ago and they loved it. I'm glad to know they will have memories like this 😊 Also I enjoyed watching them play, like I was reliving childhood vicariously through them.
Nostalgia is scary, yet wonderful isn't it..
20th booster
This is such a golden quote
Yeah.
Yes
When i was in My dreams I made a childrens nursery it was on a round stage with a monkey animatronic danceing the skin of it more like the fur was soft it had a slide and it was a indoor mall park for kids I really do I wish I can go back
I’m 12 and a half and I remember like half of this stuff it’s really eerie to me and nostalgia it’s like going into a grocery store and seeing no one there
Growing up absolutely sucks. Enjoy being 12 while you can.
I'm 13 and bro I am already getting Nostalgia.. Growing up really does suck..
@@castaway6643yeen even started the worst part yet my boi. Wait til your in your 20s
Same, I experienced some but not all but still get that feeling
@@castaway6643 Even only being 14, covid took some of my family, places i used to go to as a kid burned down, the world has basically gone insane. what happened to life just being simple. School too, I'm constantly and relentlessly beaten up and called horrible things. Barely passed 8th grade. Already know high school is just gonna be worse. why cant i just be 5 again and experience the simplicity of life?
Honestly, the entire thing just felt like a dream.
I wish I could dream about these places again
Even worse, dreams fade away with time. We are loosing these memories slowly, and we can’t do much about it
It really did
I miss the times where I didn't have a care in the world.
Maube because it is a dream. 🙃
i’m scared of growing up.
think about it. in many years everyone in this video’s comments will die.
it’s scary, isn’t it?
it’s okay.
i’m here for you.
there’s still a lot of us to live for.
the good times may be in the past,
but we can still make more memories.
i love you all!
I'm literally crying.. I haven't cried like this in years
I’m scared of growing up but other people are here with me I’m not alone
I remember a couple years ago, I was at my little sisters elementary school party thing because I was bored, on the playground I just looked around and thought "In 100 years everyone here, including me, will be dead." I have always been scared of that realization.
thank you
I'm not that scared of death in general, but scared of running out of time in life. Like every now and then when I'm not doing anything very productive I get the feeling I'm just wasting time and I should do something more productive but I don't. It drives me crazy.
that’s it, we all took childhood for granted
we really did.
feels like it was all yesterday
There is sadly no going back
I didn't but I just wish it will last longer. I wanna play and be happy more
I’m in my childhood right now I’m still a kid i have 3 more years I didn’t take last year for granted I’ll do the same with these 3 years
If there are any 10- year olds reading this enjoy your childhood because when I was 10 I said I wish I lived in the 90s and I’m 18 now and I wish I could go back to my life back then. So appreciate your childhood until it is gone
Born in 92, and every single one of these places feels like I just recently visited them. The fact there are no people present in any of these photos just adds to the melancholy.
Well said 👏👏😭
Happy late 30th birthday❤️
I agree with you, as someone who was born in the 99s its sorta hard to find my place with either the 90s or 2000s. A lot of these photos I experienced and some not. I hope your childhood was okay and safe for you. There's still time I wish I could of had in my childhood. The same thought of when I was a child. No thoughts of paying bills, work, doctors, or losing family members with time. There's that little bit of me that wishes I could go back to the Olde days of complete content, no worry about big things in life. I miss my childhood, I miss my loved ones. I hope everyone cherishes their childhood and their loved ones. You only experience childhood once, keep that close to your heart. I hope everyone in these comments are safe and well.
i wish i was born when you were born. Pre all screens and free too have a childhood not worrying abt stuff.
I was born in 95, and I would truly argue it to possibly be, one of the most fortunate yet unfortunate years to have been born in all of time. I’m old enough to remember some really good times. Sports, video games, movies/tv, music. How friendly people used to be. My friends instead of texting on a phone, would gather up at “the spot”. Or, we would leave our windows open and whoever was out would let out a signature whistle. We’d go and build bike ramps. Or egg windows lol. Something productive. But it was all cut short. I remember the first iPhone. VHS to DVD to Netflix. CD player to MP3 player etc. Going on the computer/internet was like this forbidden unknown mystery. Now we all have one in the palms of our hands, and it’s addicting. Yet depressing because nothing is a surprise anymore. I grew up on an island in Scotland, swimming in the sea and exploring abandoned WW2 bunkers. I moved to a big city when I was 15 and I could instantly tell, these kids never had a childhood. At least not one like mine. So I’m grateful for that. But man, I’d give anything to go back. Lol this video has really got me in my feels lads😮💨😂
“Don’t be sad because it’s over, smile because it happened”
- Dr. Seuss
Exactly. Not a lot of people seem to want to break the cycle of continually taking life for granted. They say “We all took our childhood for granted”, yet you can still cherish the rest of the good times if you don’t wallow in the hardship.
Yeah..
Even though I don’t remember much of it, it’s good to go back to the moments I do. Everyone has those memories may them be many or not, vivid or blurred. It’s relaxing, almost relieving knowing that life can be simple and innocent, something to cherish.
More like „don't smile because it happened, cry because it's over". No point in trying to lie to yourself.I preffer grief over forced smiles
Thanks
man shut up like honestly
This is kinda the vibe when everyone leaves the birthday party and you’re the only person left
Or when nobody comes
The last person to leave my birthday party was Shaun. He gave me an illustrated Harry Potter book
@@andred9071 I’ll tell Peyton you gave Shaun a shoutout.
The last people left are your parents and grandparents, then once you leave you see their car go in the opposite direction. Then you go home...
@@imhellagay1793 The party ending isn't relieving, its sad, but the noise ending and peaceful silence is somewhat relieving I guess
The good old days when life was good and not depressing.
if i was little these pictures would be so happy to me but looking at this now makes me realize my childhood is something i cant get back and that’s depressing 😭
Same here :(
Ikr
Same here.... It hits me harder than a dagger..
They look sad
-by the comment kid
"politics?! racism?!"
"C'mon, get up man, lets go play with that new nerf gun you got"
Isn’t that still a thing
@@burntpasta3240 yea, but much less emphasis on it in the media afaik /shrug
..If only I could go back and relive those carefree times.
@@shinmadd3517 wtf??? Man you good?
@@shinmadd3517 preach brotha
"Why does nobody like m-"
"Dude wake up! Its 2013! Geometry dash has released!"
“Dude wake up! Wake the fuck up! 2.2 just released”
“WHAT!?”
“Hah, made ya wake up”
“Fuck off Gerald.”
2013 was the beginning of my worst era. My childhood ended in late 2012.
@@DarthOkamothat means you're old heh heh
@@souljynx to you of an era maybe. But I’m 20 years old. I was born in 2001 so I’m more of a 2000s kid than 2010s.
But why are you pointing out the year? have you time traveled too????