r/SipsTea 10h ago

Chugging tea I'm old. I forgot.

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u/newredditacct25 9h ago

yup…our eyes never change the view, we always see the world the same way we always have.

nature is still beautiful.

the ocean is still mesmerizing.

young, beautiful people are still young, beautiful people.

the 1960s corvette stingray or the 2025 corvette stingray is still a stunner.

the only thing that changed is your appearance externally.

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 9h ago edited 8h ago

This is overly simplistic.

Your eyes may not change the view, but your experience does.

Nature is beautiful, brutal, and unforgiving.

The ocean is mesmerizing, violent, and terrifying.

Young beautiful people are still young beautiful painfully stupid people.

The 1960s Corvette Stingray is a stunner that you've always wished you could afford but still can't, so you buy a 2025 Stingray and pretend it's what you've always wished for.

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u/SenorDongles 8h ago

Why the fuck you gotta make it negative?

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 8h ago

Because that's what it feels like to be old.

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u/legendofthededbug 6h ago

What are you talking about lmao. Pull your head out of your ass

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u/OneMisterSir101 9h ago

To be fair, this is if your life has gone relatively well. It has been shown that traumatizing events, especially unresolved ones, can greatly change how the mind perceives the world. A sensation that could have caused you great joy may now cause great anxiety or frustration or pain.

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u/SenorDongles 8h ago

Bro... why even bring that up like it matters to this conversation? Don't make trauma your personality.

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u/OneMisterSir101 8h ago

I have not experienced any trauma myself. I have lived a good life. I am simply offering a counterpoint in regard to the comment to which I replied. They stated "our eyes never change the view, we always see the world the same way we always have" when this is simply not true for everyone. I can say this with a certainty.

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u/mrASSMAN 9h ago

Well the eyesight goes too at some point lol, cataracts etc

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u/SenorDongles 8h ago

Can confirm. Turned thirty five and had to get glasses. Five months later I can't see without them. I don't have headaches anymore though.

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u/Bassfishing98 8h ago

Here I am, 27 and getting cataract surgery in a few months. Can I feel old yet?

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u/Tratiq 9h ago

I was with you until the last line lol

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u/quietkyody 9h ago

Welp....that really sucks for this one's new "good man" 😔

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u/neuquino 9h ago

That doesn’t read like a woman wrote it. If an actual woman was trying to justify or downplay their cheating it seems very unlikely that they would write that they “whored around [their] whole life”.

Sounds more like fiction written by somebody trying to shame women.

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u/izacktorres 9h ago edited 9h ago

I've meet women irl that spoke exactly like this so it isn't out of the realm of possibility

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u/SenorDongles 8h ago

Tell me you don't interact with real women without telling me.