Quote from: Wild Nature Acolyte on July 09, 2025, 03:34:32 AMQuote from: FreakAnimalFinland on July 08, 2025, 01:50:24 PMOne thing is also conditions in life, what enable things. I hear horror stories of men meeting woman who eventually concludes that your records are now going to storage, or garage or something. It will be drastic difference is your daily life happening in front of huge flat screen tv, book shelves, empty white stylish room or.. perhaps stereo system and bunch of all time favorite albums. I think there is direct correlation of where your focus will be drifting.
There's nothing worse than seeing a man being psychologically castrated in his own home under the guise of "settling down" but it unfortunately happens all too often.
Staying on topic, despite knowing people from different walks and backgrounds of life, I've never strayed away from the music I listen to or unconventional interests/beliefs I have. I always found it strange when people do a complete 180 and never look back. Feels inauthentic and disingenuous to me.
I totally agree! It's the absolute worst. I use to have some metal head friends in my 20s and all of them are gone as far as music interest is concerned, mostly the whiffle thrasher type, which was force fed popular thrash metal by MTV in the late 80s early 90s, once that shit stopped they stopped and couldn't find bands anymore... and then the "settling down" conditions hammered them down forever and once in awhile they'll have this nostalgia about something from back then that has no big impact on me anymore, but to them it's like still the greatest band or music or whatever, cause while settling down they didn't follow along, all they got is this one distant memory from a long time ago and then it becomes very hard for me to relate to these types of people, because I've invested most of my adult life into music and mostly as a listener, so I've become very alienated with those types of people, whom I originally only connected with through music. You start to almost feel like this immortal vampire after awhile, haha your interests have remained as always, may have changed or evolved in some ways, while you see people come and go for decades. The process almost seems normal to me now, cause I've seen a lot of people come and go with music interests in specific.
