People Are Revealing What’s Disappeared Since 2011, And I’m Sorry But Life Is Just Painfully Boring Now
Recently, a now-deleted Reddit user posted to the popular Ask Reddit forum asking, “What’s something you had in 2011 but don’t have now?” I had a lot of fun reading through them, so I thought I’d share! Here are some of the best:
1.
“A waistline.”
2.
“24-hour Walmarts.”
4.
“A headphone jack on my phone.”
5.
“The chance of affording a home.”
7.
“Friends.”
8.
“Knees that bent.”
10.
“A landline phone.”
11.
“Hair.”
12.
“Privacy. Those days are gone forever.”
—u/Betty_Boss
“Did you get a kid or a dog? Or both?”
—u/Any_Field_8184
“Neither. I’m talking about the harvesting of data, including stuff we thought was private.”
—u/Betty_Boss
13.
“A watch. It died, and I never replaced it. I just look at my phone now.”
14.
“A uterus. (The breakup was inevitable as we both wanted different things; it wanted to make my life miserable and I didn’t want that.)”
—u/Help_Me_Im_Melting
15.
“Over $20,000 in debt. Finally paid that off earlier this year.”
17.
“My toxic boyfriend. Now I’m married to the man of my dreams. Sometimes things do really work out in your favor.”
18.
“BlackBerry.”
19.
“A job I loved with coworkers who were an unusually close group. I’m retired now, so the job is irrelevant, but I really miss our group.”
20.
“DVD and CDs.”
21.
“An all-pink bathroom from the ’50s.”
22.
“A functional pancreas, an upper front tooth, and a thick head of black hair with no bald spot.”
23.
“My cats Strype and Max.”
24.
And finally: “A 2011 calendar.”
So, what d’you think? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments. You can leave your own example if you want! Or, if you want to say something but prefer to remain anonymous, you can write in to this anonymous form.
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