I used to love Scrubs as a young teenager. I was starting middle school when I caught an episode (maybe a rerun) and felt like I was growing up with Turk & JD and saw a preview of what adult life in my 20s would be like. Independent, affable, free, and competent.

I grew out of it a few years later but I still held fond memories of it to see its series finale.

Few weeks ago, I was watching the Scrubs reboot and am kind of amazed as how these actors have aged - aged well mind you - and it is remarkable to realize that life really just flows and passes us by. The actors have commented to their colleagues that they were overwhelmed that they were born in the year 2000 and the original actors still thought of themselves as in their 30s.

I don’t know how to feel about seeing the cast aged out as a younger-ish Millenial. I get the feeling I should go and get a Masters or another Bachelors; a different career, or something to revive my creativity and passions. This reboot is reviving ambitions out of dread or hope and it’s freaking me out.

Has there been anything like this that kind of revived that spark for life?

This is giving me a severe existensial dread.

  • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Going to grad school is the 30-something crisis, I’m sorry to inform you.

    I went in my 30s because I couldn’t afford to finish in my 20s (and also health problems and undiagnosed Autism). Not everyone gets the privilege of progressing life’s milestones at the same pace as others.

    I’m also not a fan of the framing of wanting to grow and change as a person through improving your education and taking positive steps towards doing that as a ‘crisis’.

    Not trying to come at you specifically, I’m just tired of this mindset. Going back and finishing your Masters later in life isn’t a crisis. It’s a normal ass thing people have been doing forever.

    • Salem [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Thank you for your comments, and I’m grateful to everyone elses here too for theirs. Your comments helped provide me courage to go forward with trying something new. (I also plan to learn how to play an instrument.)

      I don’t think towhee was discouraging a radical change, or any change, but rather warning that my sense of anomie may linger, even if less in intensity, no matter what I do. And that is because of the phenomenon of aging.

      I had a similar moment of cathartic dread a few years ago listening to ChapoTrapHouse where Felix was talking about buying a sword from a video game. This sort of fridge light moments of angst, anomie, and enui happen to me every other year I guess.