But I don't want to go!

[andrewducker]

I'm fairly sure the third panel here is a universal fear. It certainly applies to me - it's the reason I have problems leaving places or going to bed while stuff is going on...

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[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

LOL! In total honesty, such thoughts have never entered my tiny little head. For part of it, I suppose I think fun is something I *do* not something other people provide.

I'll stay/stay up in order to get laid (and have), but really, I can't think of anything else.

[martling.livejournal.com]

I read something, somewhere, a long time ago. In some off the cuff remark, the author characterised growing up by "the constant fear that the world might be happening somewhere else". I have completely forgotten where it came from, but the line stuck with me.

[andrewducker]

If you find out then let me know!

[martling.livejournal.com]

Alas, Google knows not and it was probably in some dead tree newspaper column or such.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

now it's nagging my brain - wasn't it a word definition for that feeling?

sounds Douglas Adams-ish to me? nah, that's not right....

dammit!!!

[martling.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, something like that! I think. Maybe.

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Douglas Coupland wrote this:
'When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun - that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays - whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, "Well then, exactly what was it I was having - that interlude - that scrambly madness - all that time I had before?" '

not the same, but still good and true. I think this is more characteristic of me, too - the idea not that fun/Important Stuff/everything is happening elsewhere, without me, but that it's going to happen, just hasn't started yet. A generalised impatience but at the same time not wishing this big, indefinite Future to ever come.

(btw, hello Martin, I know you from parties chez Fergus & Padmini).

[martling.livejournal.com]

I more often have the feeling that it's the other way; that I was born just that little too late and missed all the interesting parts, and now everything is fading.

(Hello again, Alice.)

[andrewducker]

Here we are, with access to cool toys that would be considered magic a hundred years ago, rushing headlong into the singularity, and you think everything is fading?

[martling.livejournal.com]

"I've been to the future. It's the same thing with faster cars and smellier air."

[andrewducker]

I always like "Life is what happens when you had other plans."

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I told you the story of how I was at a convention long long ago with a bunch of people sitting in a hotel corridor.

I turned to my then boyfriend and said "Look! Those people down there are having way more fun than we are."

He looked sadly at me and said "Liian. that's us reflected in the mirror at the end of the corridor."

True story :)

[andrewducker]

That doesn't surprise me at all.

And deserves to be in a script.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

It is in retrospect very Coupling :)

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I don't have that fear.

I don't know whether that makes it not universal or me a freak.