I remember the strip where Tom Binkley comes apart when he turns the big 4-0. I guess from the viewpoint of anyone young (whether Binkley’s age or college aged like I was when this strip first was out in 1984) that 40 or even the 30’s do seem rather old.
Funny how one’s perspective changes as the years go by and as our frame of reference encompasses more and more years, certain periods of time such as summers and single years fly by so much ****ing faster. My college aged daughter is currently perplexed that her summers are going by much faster than 10 or 12 years ago when she said they seemed “endless”. Jesus, I remember thinking the same thing at her age. I will not enlighten her that this “quickening” will likely accelerate for her but rather I hope she enjoys these next few years of true freedom as a college upperclassmen and possibly graduate student and that she makes the best of them in order to have the most optimum future possible as I suspect we will be facing tumultuous times in the coming years and decades.
I wish Breathed would start posting again on the 2019 site.
I remember the strip where Tom Binkley comes apart when he turns the big 4-0. I guess from the viewpoint of anyone young (whether Binkley’s age or college aged like I was when this strip first was out in 1984) that 40 or even the 30’s do seem rather old.
Funny how one’s perspective changes as the years go by and as our frame of reference encompasses more and more years, certain periods of time such as summers and single years fly by so much ****ing faster. My college aged daughter is currently perplexed that her summers are going by much faster than 10 or 12 years ago when she said they seemed “endless”. Jesus, I remember thinking the same thing at her age. I will not enlighten her that this “quickening” will likely accelerate for her but rather I hope she enjoys these next few years of true freedom as a college upperclassmen and possibly graduate student and that she makes the best of them in order to have the most optimum future possible as I suspect we will be facing tumultuous times in the coming years and decades.
I wish Breathed would start posting again on the 2019 site.