Stuck in a timewarp

[Lanolin]

Just wondering if this is normal for many people.

For example, my dad is always listening to 50s music and wont listen to anything else. 50s music is all about teenagers having crushes in each other and wanting to be married. The. he will go on an on about trams public transport system which dont exist anymore, they got scrapped in 1956.
Anything past 1964 he doesnt really want to know, and then talks about people who lived before that as if everyone should know about them and remember them.

Its very hard to get through when someones stuck on Bing Crosby or Doris Day or whoever got number one on the billboard charts in 1958. Or maybe its just my dad?

I certainly dont remember every chart position of any hit singles in the 80s and 90s and go round listening to them all the time. Even with books I dont keep track of what was the number one best seller. I wonder if maybe this is kind of on the spectrum as people say but maybe lots of older people do this not just my dad. Maybe the 50s music and that postwar era is the epitome of time and I was born too late to really appreciate it. lol

 

[Billyd]

We love 40s, 50s and 60s music, TV, and movies. It was a time when we could walk our streets, play ball in the streets, court the opposite sex, go to the drive in, community socials, ...

We hold on to those days where the toughest of times, we could find joy all around us.

 

[Lanolin]

oh you were lucky what happened? how did you guys end up ruining it all? I think maybe it was because people bought too many cars and people started getting run over, and choking from all the pollution.

 

[Lanolin]

Grease the movie..showed teens in the 1950s with no parents, chasing after cars and each other and not caring about their studies lol

 

[UCA4J]

Just wondering if this is normal for many people.

For example, my dad is always listening to 50s music and wont listen to anything else. 50s music is all about teenagers having crushes in each other and wanting to be married. The. he will go on an on about trams public transport system which dont exist anymore, they got scrapped in 1956.
Anything past 1964 he doesnt really want to know, and then talks about people who lived before that as if everyone should know about them and remember them.

Its very hard to get through when someones stuck on Bing Crosby or Doris Day or whoever got number one on the billboard charts in 1958. Or maybe its just my dad?

I certainly dont remember every chart position of any hit singles in the 80s and 90s and go round listening to them all the time. Even with books I dont keep track of what was the number one best seller. I wonder if maybe this is kind of on the spectrum as people say but maybe lots of older people do this not just my dad. Maybe the 50s music and that postwar era is the epitome of time and I was born too late to really appreciate it. lol

maybe your dad wants to remain living in the past .... ?

 

[Lanolin]

also, if you smoked and slept around, it was meant to be 'cool' and daring. According to that movie anyway.

 

[Lanolin]

maybe your dad wants to remain living in the past .... ?

any idea why tho? He kinda forgets that everyone else did not grow up at the same time he did. I mean obviously not but why keep assuming that everyone is the same age as you? I dont do that with children!

 

[UCA4J]

any idea why tho? He kinda forgets that everyone else did not grow up at the same time he did. I mean obviously not but why keep assuming that everyone is the same age as you? I dont do that with children!

i don't know your dad, so i cant really speculate.
i like remembering the 80s which is the decade i was born in, because for me, the 90's absolutely sucked.
then the 2000s were questionable.
and now the 2010s have been.
what will the "spirit of the age" be for the 2020s.
for me, few things in life are now guaranteed.
maybe your dad, is dealing with things the best way he knows how; his way.
may i ask, what age your dad is?

 

[Lanolin]

i don't know your dad, so i cant really speculate.
i like remembering the 80s which is the decade i was born in, because for me, the 90's absolutely sucked.
then the 2000s were questionable.
and now the 2010s have been.
what will the "spirit of the age" be for the 2020s.
for me, few things in life are now guaranteed.
maybe your dad, is dealing with things the best way he knows how; his way.
may i ask, what age your dad is?

hes in his 70s. Mum isnt like that tho and shes the same age. She doesnt look back.

 

[UCA4J]

hes in his 70s. Mum isnt like that tho and shes the same age. She doesnt look back.

did he have a mid life crisis ?
Does he have memory loss or even dementia ?

 

[Bingo]

"Listen up folks...myself and those of my age group, hold dear...to the time that was.
The 50's / 60's have precious memories of a by gone era, and I assure you this generation Y,
or young millennial age, unfortunately, will never know truly these good times actually did exist!
For those of us that know, no explanation is needed, and those that don't know, there is
absolutely no explanation that would suffice...believe it. I have lived it, and glad...it is disturbing,
to witness the malady of the time now. And, I firmly believe 'growing pains' now has an ominous significance!"
I leave it at that!
'Bingo'...Believe I need God, Ok ( and many need a closer look at SELF! )

 

[Lanolin]

did he have a mid life crisis ?
Does he have memory loss or even dementia ?

nope hes always been like that lol

 

[Lanolin]

oh we millenials have good times, for like a day or so. But dont really remember them as our attention spans are so short.

Its more like 'the power of now" since whoever was around in the 70s badly stuffed the world up.

 

[UCA4J]

nope hes always been like that lol

have you actually discussed this with him ?

 

[Lanolin]

have you actually discussed this with him ?

sure but you try discussing something with someone who wasnt there at the time. I often have no idea what hes talking about but he assumes I do.

A girl at my school, shes about ten years old, says HER dad is obssessed with Elvis presley, though hes been dead for years. Interesting guy sure but cant really see the appeal....hes not like Jesus right? He didnt die for anyone and got resurrected and turned peoples lives around.

 

[UCA4J]

sure but you try discussing something with someone who wasnt there at the time. I often have no idea what hes talking about but he assumes I do.

A girl at my school, shes about ten years old, says HER dad is obssessed with Elvis presley, though hes been dead for years. Interesting guy sure but cant really see the appeal....hes not like Jesus right? He didnt die for anyone and got resurrected and turned peoples lives around.

well then, I don't know what else to say or ask.
I can only go with what you have shared.

 

[Lanolin]

thats ok just wondered if anyone else had the same thing.

I dont think I would like to live in the past too much. even if it was like the 'golden era' because, obviosuly something happned to end it and thats not where we are right now and you cant ever go back there.

I think Jesus said dont look back like Lots wife.

 

[Lynx]

So your father likes to have his whole life one certain way... And he assumes everybody else should be living the same way too... And he complains a lot about everybody who is doing anything different from the way he thinks everybody should live...

Sounds familiar somehow.

 

[Lynx]

Talking about people wishing this was a former time:

I shoulda been born in '45
In '54 I woulda been 9
White shirt, poodle skirt, silk hair tie
Dancing in the moonlight
That woulda been nice

 

[soberxp]

Maybe it's just that your father misses his time of youth. He may have a young heart under his old ages