To try an avoid being out of touch with the young whipper-snappers, I finally decided to look up YOLO this week because it's everywhere. Well, that and I had no idea what it meant.
You Only Live Once.
Really? That's what it stands for? That's disappointing.
It's not even a new idea...
Haven't we had that whole "eat drink and be merry because tomorrow we die" thing since the printing press made the Bible available to the masses? (ok I'm not that old). But I felt old because I had to look up the phrase to begin with.
I was hoping it was a new Trololo guy since he died earlier this year. I wouldn't mind having more of this:
But alas. It's not. YOLO is just a reminder that I'm not in high school any more. (which I'm totally fine with, but I do like keeping up with things... not the Kardashians, but other pop culture-y things).
In other getting old news, I heard Eminem's "My Name Is" on the radio today, which brought me back to middle school. And then I thought about tan M&M's and how kids that are going to college this year don't know Eminem* or tan M&M's because they were born in 1994. Born.In.1994. I know that's not even a decade after I was born, but it just seems crazy that everyone is just getting older.
*Ok. Maybe they do know who Eminem is, but "Love the way you lie" just isn't the same as getting the real slim shady to stand up.
