2 songs released almost 40 years ago:
 




I didn't start listening to 80s/90s music until the past year or so. Idk if it's cuz I've heard these songs randomly my whole life since they're classics, or there actually is something inherently nostalgic about them, but the vibes are unmatched.
 
I've been trying to find songs from (Uncharted Waters) sports camp and (Gospel Light) VBS. Most if not all VBS songs are on YouTube but I'm having trouble finding sports camp songs. Ever since I was young, like 9 or 10, I remember liking certain songs.

Here's 2 VBS songs I hadn't heard in years, more than a decade in some cases:





So many YT links in my old posts are broken cuz the videos no longer exist. Might have to include titles now but these probably wouldn't get removed by YT right.

Possibly blogworthy thoughts:

If anyone reading this is in middle school, or even high school, the best advice I can give as an old person is to mew.
Mewing has been part of my physical therapy for the past few months and it's drastically improved several parts of my life.
Technology is making us weak and killing our rizz; touching grass and mewing is unironically the best advice for future generations.

There's a bunch of resources I can share about mewing if people are interested but it's just natural tongue posture. Our persistent bad posture from sitting, screen time, and breathing habits make us breathe with our mouths and necks instead of our nose and core, which actually puts a ton of strain on our bodies. For cases like me, my body has made compensations and adjustments that make life miserable now. My entire skeleton is not straight, and basic functions like breathing and walking are all wonky.

I work with kids (around 8-18 yr olds) and what I see is honestly shocking and super sad. I think Covid also negatively impacted this generation, but the amount of kids who move like old people is pretty depressing.

Of course I guess this is just life. My parents and people older than me always told me to fix my posture but I was lazy and didn't care. All this stuff weighs so heavily on me I feel obligated to have kids at this point.

I need to lock in and focus on myself though, I'm close to a one arm chin up.

More of my own time capsule business:
I've been reading through old posts from more than 10 years ago as part of working through my trauma, and it's crazy how much I've forgotten. I don't remember whose blog (or if it was even from AoPS) I copied the style from, but many of my irl stories used first name initials. Reading the stories now, I've forgotten who the letters stand for lmao.

The AoPS site remake in 2015 ruined so many things on this blog lmao. All the links to other users/blogs/posts/etc don't work anymore. Highkey frustrating but oh well. A lot of the missing stuff is not only for nostalgia, but also just how connected I was with everything and everyone on AoPS.

But what bothers me the most is how I was lazy or put off writing certain stories. I even knew that I wanted to store the memories here, but I procrastinated and eventually forgot. Now years later I'm going back to try to rediscover these memories and it's just a message from me like 'will write later.' There's several orchestra concerts I wish I blogged about, and a couple swim team things.

Also my blog titles were just for fun but now it's actually hard to find stuff; I gotta click on every single one.

Losing memories is scary and sad at the same time. There are very good memories that we remember for the last time at some point, and then they're just gone forever oof. I used to have a very good memory but after Covid I can't remember what happened like 10 seconds ago lol. I remember when I was young I would keep track of all sorts of things in my head, including best days of my life. At the time of writing this post, I still have a clear memory of when I felt the 'best:' AWANA camp summer 2015

Rereading my blog I also found this post: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c10h1058451p4577423
It's honestly super interesting to read through now, as I don't think I really followed that thread so a lot of it is new to me. Maybe in my next post I'll talk about all this maturity stuff, as it's something I've struggled on and off with since I started working with kids (again) in 2022.