My maybe hot take: if Christmas stuff can show up before December (or even mid November), it should also be acceptable for Halloween to bleed into November. Let the spooky girlies live 🦇
to be fair the people who like halloween like me are kinda doing it year round anyway. like if half my clothes are halloween themed. dont got much choice. we spookin
For me, its the melancholy......... The memories are painful. I feel it in my skin. Things will be good again, but without certain people it is painful. i went from being super popular online and in my circle in my town to having NO friends. I scroll insta, interest and youtube so sad remembering when i wouldn't be able to sleep from the notifications. Now, all i get are my medication and calendar reminders. Its ok, as mental illness got worse for me so i don't want to put that on others. Anyway, at least as a mucker i am apart of something bigger. Not to be pathetic, just your typical chronically online& in-pain Scroller.
I relate to this so much. I struggle with quiet bi-polar, so I isolated myself HEAVILY after highschool. I’ve realized recently that I miss a few people that I stopped talking to when I spiraled, so I’ve started reaching out to people with little “hey! I was thinking about you, and I hope you’re well” messages. I now have plans with someone I haven’t seen in years this weekend bc of one spontaneous message, and I’m so excited. If you’re someone who feels better after some socialization, I’d recommend reaching out with something noncommittal like “hope your well” dms to see what happens There’s also a mental health social media platform I recommend to people that I’ve met incredible people dealing with similar issues on. It’s amazing how much peace I’ve found since finding people struggling as much as me that I can relate to. At a bare minimum, it’s nice to post my struggles and have some support from people I don’t have to face again when I need to shout in a void metaphorically speaking (it’s Talklife btw 💅🏻)
@thegrimlooper I'm not one to comment on posts or on anything really, but I read your post, and it stopped me in my tracks. I thought I was reading something I unknowingly typed myself. When I tell you, I 100% relate to how you feel. I was in a severe car accident in 2017, and it really messed up my back. Countless surgeries/procedures/and medications later, here I lay, worse off than when it happened. I was always that bubbly happy, let's have fun, go adventuring, celebrating people I love, DOING what I love, including decorating for holidays, cooking/baking, creating things. I'm now a hermit who only leaves the house for doc appts bc driving hurts (so no more traveling for me either), I basically pulled back more and more as the years went on, also just lost friends bc I couldn't DO anything anymore, I suffer from severe anxiety, I'm afraid to leave my house (someone who used to blow through the door to go be/do stuff), I have severe depression, pain that is too much to explain, PTSD, and have stopped talking to everyone. My 2 bffs of over 30 yrs, even fam members hear from me once in a blue moon. I'm no longer that fun bubbly person, and the person I am today is someone even I don't want to talk to. Holidays are extremely hard for me. I always decorated, always cooked/baked, always attended all the celebrations and my heart was so full. Now...I just lay here and cry. I miss the old me. The me that LIVED! Now I'm just here....existing. In saying all of that, it was to let you know you're not alone in how you feel. There are others of us out here going through it too. Sending a warm and comforting hug to you!
The magic comes and goes for me. Last year I didn’t decorate and I was overly stressed about how to split time with family evenly. This year I’m pregnant with my first baby and I feel the magic even more than when I was a kid. It’s crazy to think that next year we will start holiday family traditions that my daughter will grow up with. That pressure to create the magic is on me now, but it doesn’t feel like bad pressure at all. It feels very joyful!
I’m 30 with no kids and I still watch track Santa 😂 and make sure I’m in bed before Santa gets to Northern Ireland . I love Christmas so much and I think we all need these little things
I feel so seen hearing you say you cry on your birthday. I've cried and thrown up like the past 3 years for mine. 😭 growing up is hard and I'm also struggling seeing my loved ones get old. My mom has finally embraced her grey hair and she still looks 40!
Ugh... I've had gray hairs since my 20s, and I'm 36 now, so I feel for your mom, lol. Definitely struggle with seeing my loved ones getting older, as well, but it's life.
It’s okay to change your mind about Christmas decorations! Clear lights, some Christmas candles that are pretty, a little greenery with some holly berries as red accents, simple stuff! A couple of door mats, winter themed shower curtains, hand soaps decorated with Christmas label and scents, etc. It’s your place so do as you please! That just made me feel a little sad too. I haven’t decorated for a couple of years and I’m starting to again this year.
I am older than you, and I love listening to videos like these when you talk about how you think. When you said we romanticize the past and cling onto something good, when it was really mostly shitty, hence the nostalgia, I was like YES! He figured it out so much sooner than I did! It's a life lesson you have to come to on your own.
I am now 30, but I also cried about not being a teen anymore when I turned 20. I felt like I was so old. But I didn't get the same feeling turning 30 this year.
9:24 i resonate with this SO heavily. I literally had a moment as a kid where i woke up in the middle of the night on christmas eve, and now that im older i know it was just a very realistic dream, but i swore to god i saw santas sleigh flying off in the distance in the night sky. it was just so real and nothing abt the dream was anything other than my normal room and window and that *feeling* of waking up and seeing something and then going back to sleep. I believed in santa for a good while bc of that 😂😂
OH BTW ADAM!! I wanted to thank you so much for your videos!! I am currently 19, and without you I would've felt so alone and lost in life. You are always the reassurance I need. Especially next year since I will be moving to another country all on my own. Thank you Adam for always being there for me whenever I need you.💓
Omg, here in Canada we did rain deer dust 11:19 and one year my mom went to the thrift store and found a pair of gold old man glasses, and then Xmas morning we woke up and Santa had forgotten his reading glasses at our house! That solidified my belief for a few more years. And we also had a personal elf named Arowyn, she was a small ceramic statue elf that my mom moved around the house, sprinkled glitter around her new spot, and then printed a letter from Arowyn. It was awesome, but then one year me and my little sister found the elf in my mom’s closet while looking for something else, I was crushed.
reasons for nyc: -you know that if you don't like it, you will move to Paris! -you will still have Paris as your romantic vacation getaway magical mysterious dream location -you are a Swiftie and who else lives in nyc??? (one of her many homes but still 😅 also she especially sings about new york!) -you speak English and that makes a new place less intimidating plus its easy to meet new people -nyc has SO much live jazz and live music of all kinds! (I'm a musician!) -you will make so many new friends and I bet many will even be from Paris so you can coordinate your Paris trips with them too! -NYC has so many people from every place on earth (so does Paris!) but I am from nyc and everyone who moves here tells me its their favorite thing about nyc -nyc is TOO dog friendly. if u love it here your fur babies will be little celebs on the street (which may be a bad thing since ur already a celeb and may want some privacy! -you may get annoyed, but you will NEVER be BORED -so many tv shows make me so homesick for nyc if I ever go on tour (sex in the city, seinfeld, Girls to name a few...) -you can meet actual real housewives of new york!!!! my friend randomly got caviar with Countess LuAnn! -you can go to watch what happens live/bravo con -you'll already be in the US which means more people will know ur here and ask u to be a guest on their podcast/etc -you'll get to do more in person interviews for YOUR amazing podcast -more live tours in America and you will develop favorite venues to perform in and etc. -museums -broadway -amazing clothes/fashion/style/thrift shops -so many different options for where you live (bronx? manhattan? brooklyn? etc...) -people move here from all over the world and never leave...there's a reason! reasons for Paris: -more privacy -closer to your family -you love it so much already -the best food -best art museums -the most romantic -less noisy -more fancy fashion -audiences are very respectful of live music (as a person who has performed music there) -you will end up learning to speak French! -cleaner/better air quality -closer to any other place you want to go to in Europe -a break from american pop culture and online culture (that your job already makes you so immersed in) -safer -so many nostalgic films take place there -amazing tv shows and cinema *i know a lot of my reasons go for both places haha sorry I am from nyc and biased 😂
Welcome back to the channel!! Halloween in Derry must’ve been unique since that’s where Halloween began! I get the sad nostalgia thing bc we did the reindeer food and cookies and everything too, but my family is now estranged and I’m divorced so you know. It’s up to me to make it special. I’ll be north of London for Christmas, maybe I can find something nice to do. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Christmas now bc as life goes on things become more bittersweet and it’s nice to know we’re not alone in these feelings
14:45 i used to set traps for the tooth fairy. I would leave out handmade questionnaires! And then, one time, I caught my dad filling one out🤣 it was over with. p.s. he cleverly came up with the name "Mr. Fairy" 😭😑
I think its because our parents did such a good job with celebrating Christmas when we were kids. Now that were adults, the vibrant filter is off and we missed that time of our life. That's why if I have kids, i promise to give them the same spark and excitement my parents gave me.
Now that I’m 29…I could go back to 4yo with Christmas and birthdays. Santa. Birthday magic. Now, definitely crying on my birthdays. It feels cleansing.
I get nostaligic about school which is so crazy because i was treated so bad by other classmates. I miss band and being able to play instruments with others. I know what you mean by losing your christmas sparkle and i feel that honestly. These past few years christmas havent been as great as it used to be but now that im a first time mom and get to do it with my baby it has brought back christmas sparkle in a different way. Also my childhood was great but my parents never bothered with santa claus which i wish they did. 😢
I feel my nostalgia most when I lived in Texas at the age of like 8-9. My family is military so we moved around a lot so I was always forced to make new friends but now that I’m older I always look back to this time where we had a whole group of the neighborhood kids and we were this big friend group. Everyday we could hang out we all would go out and just be kids and like ride bikes or make up silly dances. I really miss those times and it’s sad to think about now because I follow only a few of those people and it’s just kinda sad to see how we’ve all grown up apart from each other and how different we are and how different all of our lives ended up… I’m feeling those same growing pains as I’m approaching 24 now fighting for my life just to exist and pay rent… oh to be a kid again…
I remember putting That reindeer food right outside our house Christmas eve and waking up in the middle of the night to see deer hooves in the snow I was so convinced it was Santa's reindeer 🤣 we just have a lot of deer around my area being so close to the woods lmaoo
Mucker I’m watching this and as an eldest sister, i have to refute about not decorating for the holidays. I know you travel a lot, but try to build your own collection of holiday decorations over the years to come. Create your own nostalgia! If anyone for the girls. I have lived alone since I was 17 and realized this. Love you.
I have been sad the past couple years due to nostalgia. As I’ve grown up, I’ve missed all the memories I have had with family and friends. My birthday is in November, and I loved Halloween the most. Though obviously once I grew out of trick or treating, we would attended haunted attractions for a couple years, and that lost the novelty once I grew older post college. Also, following Halloween, when it’s November, I wouldn’t be in the Christmas mood like everyone else seemed to be. Actually Christmas had lost it’s luster for me, for years. I work in retail, and dealing with the crowds of people shopping really does drain me of caring about the holiday. It’s actually depressing when I think about it. Also I’m not as close with my friends as I once was, so I feel like I’m losing out on making new memories with them. 😢 I do have one close friend who has made me feel special on my birthday at least. But Christmas has been overrated for me for the most part. I used to try and decorate and bake cookies to heal the depression, but I wish I had as much fun as everyone else seems to have during the holidays.
Christmas to me was always about CHOIR!! I was in choir every year of school and Christmas season was my favorite! I am totally a snob about the classics on the radio though 😅 I prefer the choir songs and they're difficult to get unless you make your own playlist. My Junior year we got selected to sing in the Disney World Candlelight Christmas show! It was soooooo cool! Chita Rivera was the guest speaker for the show
adam i feel the christmas thing so much.. i was in high school choir and we’d sing christmas songs at our state capital and it was always so magical since they had a huge tree 🩵 i really do miss it 😭
I truly understand where your coming from there is so many people who longs for the nostalgia this time of year, so your not alone at all. But unfortunately, I was one of those people who didn't have a "great" upbringing, so around the holidays I don't feel nostalgia, I think "envious?" is a right word to use. And not for nefarious reasons, I just wished I experienced joyful events like others. So, I vicariously live through others experiences, so yeah. sorry for the rant😅
see, i’m very iffy on holidays, because i never really did holidays as a kid (except halloween.) and all in all my family just never was super close. but now at 21, i want so bad to get into the holiday spirit but i still don’t have anyone to do it with for the most part (yes, i’m aware i can do it on my own but it’s not as fun) and it still makes little me jealous of the kids who got to celebrate, but also so sad i never got to do it. so i honestly just hope one day i have a family of my own, because i would go above and beyond to do everything to celebrate, because i think in a way it will heal parts of the inner kid in me too. this year i’m doing Friendsgiving with my best friends group of friends (i don’t have a big group of friends, and she kinda does bc she goes to college, and i’m honestly just so happy she included me in it) so i’m really hoping that goes well, and i feel some holiday cheer from it.
My family has celebrated HallowThanksMas before! We dressed up for Halloween on Christmas and had a full on Thanksgiving meal 😋it was fun, I think we only did it twice though...
the older i've gotten, the holidays are nothing like they used to be unfortunately. i've been struggling every year trying to make my own traditions or make it enjoyable again, but i fear nothing will compare to the christmas/holiday magic and nostalgia of when i was younger
I think I went through the same Christmas thoughts at your age. The first couple of years of working... I was spending 100+ dollars per person (was living with parents). Now, it's not feasible for me to get "large" gifts (especially since both my mom and dad live 1000+ miles away from me and both live near their siblings). It's also just... not necessary? If I'm with my family, that's a gift itself.
Very insightful video ❤️. I suppose the way I see nostalgia, or just looking at the past in general is in 3 ways (in my opinion, not a factual statement) : Some things can and will stay and become a part of you, be it the smallest thing or the biggest gesture. Some things change with nuance, for better or worse- but they change nonetheless and your relation to them evolves because of it. Some things you will have to let go and keep moving forward without them.
This birthday talk is making me realise that next year is the last year in my 20s. I’ll be 29 in January 😂 But spending the year upset about it won’t change anything...it is what it is. I just wish housing and living wasn’t so expensive, so I could actually reach “milestones” and not feel so behind every year I get closer to 30 and I don’t have my own place 😂
Because we need magic. We really need to believe in magic, we need that unpredictable dimension to have hope, to move forward. And there isn’t a thing wrong with that.
The whole Christmas present concept is odd to me as an adult. For my kids, they love making Christmas lists and I gift them a few things that they really want. Adults just want wine and peace lol
I had a great childhood but just always a skeptic and never believed in him like that lol, I think for a sec believed tooth fairy but not really lol 12:43
Good evening Adam perfect timing as I was walking to the bathroom to brush my teeth I hear the discord notice that you posted a new video and I was like oh hell yeah😁😁😁
One year I found the Santa shop in the lesser used attic at 8, I think. They convinced us it was for charity for other kids. Which didn’t flag back then as even then I knew those bitches weren’t and still are not that charitable. Anyways they had to make a great effort every year to try make sure I still believed. The last year at 12, they got my cousin next door to ring the doorbell at like 8pm. Our whole lives Santa came in the middle of the night. Anyways door bell rings so they send me out. I open the door look around and go back in saying no one was there. Not seeing the bags 😂 My cousin nearly killed herself trying to get back over the wall and not been seen by me and then I didn’t even notice the bags. Black bags in the dark front hall so what did they expect anyways 😂
We do Secret Santa, one sister doesn’t partake and her and her husband do their own thing at Christmas. The rest of us and brother in law do it, limit is €100, but you can go above if you want. We make wish lists and that if you are stuck. We have always opened gifts on Christmas Eve, sk we still do that. Christmas dinner at around 3pm is what makes Christmas Day, then watching movies and the turkey sandwiches later at night, usually around 10pm after coming out of the dinner food coma. I love Christmas but I am very guilty of not making an effort to do Christmassy things. I plan to do some baking, see some carol singers, drive around looking at other peoples decorations. The SAD has hit me hard already, so I’m looking forward to putting the lights up and tree is going up early too
💜🩵 Nostalgia is normal. I feel it helps us cherish the now when we healthily process the nostalgia. That is what you're trying to do now. It's beautiful to see 🩵💜
I used to LOVE feeding the reindeers omg 🥹 My parents used to have us make reindeer food at home and I remember vividly the way it would shimmer in the yard and I don’t know how the ever loving fuck they did it, but in the morning the glitter and “food” was always gone 🥹🥺
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My maybe hot take: if Christmas stuff can show up before December (or even mid November), it should also be acceptable for Halloween to bleed into November. Let the spooky girlies live 🦇
The worst part is that I’ve seen Christmas stuff out in August..
Yes please 👻
Yeah exactly! Also there's Christmas horror movies that I enjoy!
Totally agree! Also, Cosplayers exist! Going to an anime convention next month, so I'll be seeing a lot of people in cosplays near Christmas 😂 .
to be fair the people who like halloween like me are kinda doing it year round anyway. like if half my clothes are halloween themed. dont got much choice. we spookin
Felt this heavy. The feeling of Christmas when I was a kid was like no other. I’ll forever miss it
“Nostalgia is a mind trick, If I’d been there I’d hate it”
For me, its the melancholy......... The memories are painful. I feel it in my skin. Things will be good again, but without certain people it is painful. i went from being super popular online and in my circle in my town to having NO friends. I scroll insta, interest and youtube so sad remembering when i wouldn't be able to sleep from the notifications. Now, all i get are my medication and calendar reminders. Its ok, as mental illness got worse for me so i don't want to put that on others. Anyway, at least as a mucker i am apart of something bigger. Not to be pathetic, just your typical chronically online& in-pain Scroller.
I relate to this so much. I struggle with quiet bi-polar, so I isolated myself HEAVILY after highschool. I’ve realized recently that I miss a few people that I stopped talking to when I spiraled, so I’ve started reaching out to people with little “hey! I was thinking about you, and I hope you’re well” messages. I now have plans with someone I haven’t seen in years this weekend bc of one spontaneous message, and I’m so excited. If you’re someone who feels better after some socialization, I’d recommend reaching out with something noncommittal like “hope your well” dms to see what happens
There’s also a mental health social media platform I recommend to people that I’ve met incredible people dealing with similar issues on. It’s amazing how much peace I’ve found since finding people struggling as much as me that I can relate to. At a bare minimum, it’s nice to post my struggles and have some support from people I don’t have to face again when I need to shout in a void metaphorically speaking (it’s Talklife btw 💅🏻)
@thegrimlooper I'm not one to comment on posts or on anything really, but I read your post, and it stopped me in my tracks. I thought I was reading something I unknowingly typed myself. When I tell you, I 100% relate to how you feel. I was in a severe car accident in 2017, and it really messed up my back. Countless surgeries/procedures/and medications later, here I lay, worse off than when it happened. I was always that bubbly happy, let's have fun, go adventuring, celebrating people I love, DOING what I love, including decorating for holidays, cooking/baking, creating things. I'm now a hermit who only leaves the house for doc appts bc driving hurts (so no more traveling for me either), I basically pulled back more and more as the years went on, also just lost friends bc I couldn't DO anything anymore, I suffer from severe anxiety, I'm afraid to leave my house (someone who used to blow through the door to go be/do stuff), I have severe depression, pain that is too much to explain, PTSD, and have stopped talking to everyone. My 2 bffs of over 30 yrs, even fam members hear from me once in a blue moon. I'm no longer that fun bubbly person, and the person I am today is someone even I don't want to talk to. Holidays are extremely hard for me. I always decorated, always cooked/baked, always attended all the celebrations and my heart was so full. Now...I just lay here and cry. I miss the old me. The me that LIVED! Now I'm just here....existing. In saying all of that, it was to let you know you're not alone in how you feel. There are others of us out here going through it too. Sending a warm and comforting hug to you!
Yesss the second that calendar flips from October 31st to November 1st I become INSUFFERABLE 🎄 I LOVEEEE christmas music ❤️
The magic comes and goes for me. Last year I didn’t decorate and I was overly stressed about how to split time with family evenly. This year I’m pregnant with my first baby and I feel the magic even more than when I was a kid. It’s crazy to think that next year we will start holiday family traditions that my daughter will grow up with. That pressure to create the magic is on me now, but it doesn’t feel like bad pressure at all. It feels very joyful!
I've been watching you for 3 years now and it's so nice to see how you've grown into a nice young man.
literally
Been a little over 4 years for me, and I am SO proud of Adam in a parasocial way, lol. I love him because he is genuine ❤ .
I’m 30 with no kids and I still watch track Santa 😂 and make sure I’m in bed before Santa gets to Northern Ireland . I love Christmas so much and I think we all need these little things
I still let myself "believe" in santa. It was just such a light of my childhood like its just so fun to keep a little childhood whimsy LOL.
Miss the feeling as a kid when Christmas came around and the feeling when Santa came
I feel so seen hearing you say you cry on your birthday. I've cried and thrown up like the past 3 years for mine. 😭 growing up is hard and I'm also struggling seeing my loved ones get old. My mom has finally embraced her grey hair and she still looks 40!
Ugh... I've had gray hairs since my 20s, and I'm 36 now, so I feel for your mom, lol. Definitely struggle with seeing my loved ones getting older, as well, but it's life.
It’s okay to change your mind about Christmas decorations! Clear lights, some Christmas candles that are pretty, a little greenery with some holly berries as red accents, simple stuff! A couple of door mats, winter themed shower curtains, hand soaps decorated with Christmas label and scents, etc. It’s your place so do as you please! That just made me feel a little sad too. I haven’t decorated for a couple of years and I’m starting to again this year.
I am older than you, and I love listening to videos like these when you talk about how you think. When you said we romanticize the past and cling onto something good, when it was really mostly shitty, hence the nostalgia, I was like YES! He figured it out so much sooner than I did! It's a life lesson you have to come to on your own.
I love nostalgia. Gives me the happy feels.
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I am now 30, but I also cried about not being a teen anymore when I turned 20. I felt like I was so old. But I didn't get the same feeling turning 30 this year.
I get sooo sad around Christmas bc it use to feel so magical as a kid. Now its just streasful. 🥺💔😭
9:24 i resonate with this SO heavily. I literally had a moment as a kid where i woke up in the middle of the night on christmas eve, and now that im older i know it was just a very realistic dream, but i swore to god i saw santas sleigh flying off in the distance in the night sky. it was just so real and nothing abt the dream was anything other than my normal room and window and that *feeling* of waking up and seeing something and then going back to sleep. I believed in santa for a good while bc of that 😂😂
OH BTW ADAM!! I wanted to thank you so much for your videos!! I am currently 19, and without you I would've felt so alone and lost in life. You are always the reassurance I need. Especially next year since I will be moving to another country all on my own. Thank you Adam for always being there for me whenever I need you.💓
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Omg, here in Canada we did rain deer dust 11:19 and one year my mom went to the thrift store and found a pair of gold old man glasses, and then Xmas morning we woke up and Santa had forgotten his reading glasses at our house! That solidified my belief for a few more years. And we also had a personal elf named Arowyn, she was a small ceramic statue elf that my mom moved around the house, sprinkled glitter around her new spot, and then printed a letter from Arowyn. It was awesome, but then one year me and my little sister found the elf in my mom’s closet while looking for something else, I was crushed.
woah - it is 2am in germany rn and nostalgia is exactly what is keeping me up at the moment & is on my mind for quite some few days now!!!
reasons for nyc:
-you know that if you don't like it, you will move to Paris!
-you will still have Paris as your romantic vacation getaway magical mysterious dream location
-you are a Swiftie and who else lives in nyc??? (one of her many homes but still 😅 also she especially sings about new york!)
-you speak English and that makes a new place less intimidating plus its easy to meet new people
-nyc has SO much live jazz and live music of all kinds! (I'm a musician!)
-you will make so many new friends and I bet many will even be from Paris so you can coordinate your Paris trips with them too!
-NYC has so many people from every place on earth (so does Paris!) but I am from nyc and everyone who moves here tells me its their favorite thing about nyc
-nyc is TOO dog friendly. if u love it here your fur babies will be little celebs on the street (which may be a bad thing since ur already a celeb and may want some privacy!
-you may get annoyed, but you will NEVER be BORED
-so many tv shows make me so homesick for nyc if I ever go on tour (sex in the city, seinfeld, Girls to name a few...)
-you can meet actual real housewives of new york!!!! my friend randomly got caviar with Countess LuAnn!
-you can go to watch what happens live/bravo con
-you'll already be in the US which means more people will know ur here and ask u to be a guest on their podcast/etc
-you'll get to do more in person interviews for YOUR amazing podcast
-more live tours in America and you will develop favorite venues to perform in and etc.
-museums
-broadway
-amazing clothes/fashion/style/thrift shops
-so many different options for where you live (bronx? manhattan? brooklyn? etc...)
-people move here from all over the world and never leave...there's a reason!
reasons for Paris:
-more privacy
-closer to your family
-you love it so much already
-the best food
-best art museums
-the most romantic
-less noisy
-more fancy fashion
-audiences are very respectful of live music (as a person who has performed music there)
-you will end up learning to speak French!
-cleaner/better air quality
-closer to any other place you want to go to in Europe
-a break from american pop culture and online culture (that your job already makes you so immersed in)
-safer
-so many nostalgic films take place there
-amazing tv shows and cinema
*i know a lot of my reasons go for both places haha sorry I am from nyc and biased 😂
Welcome back to the channel!! Halloween in Derry must’ve been unique since that’s where Halloween began! I get the sad nostalgia thing bc we did the reindeer food and cookies and everything too, but my family is now estranged and I’m divorced so you know. It’s up to me to make it special. I’ll be north of London for Christmas, maybe I can find something nice to do. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Christmas now bc as life goes on things become more bittersweet and it’s nice to know we’re not alone in these feelings
14:45 i used to set traps for the tooth fairy. I would leave out handmade questionnaires! And then, one time, I caught my dad filling one out🤣 it was over with.
p.s. he cleverly came up with the name "Mr. Fairy" 😭😑
I loveeee your Christmas stories 🥲 BAMBOOZLED 😂
I think its because our parents did such a good job with celebrating Christmas when we were kids. Now that were adults, the vibrant filter is off and we missed that time of our life.
That's why if I have kids, i promise to give them the same spark and excitement my parents gave me.
Now that I’m 29…I could go back to 4yo with Christmas and birthdays. Santa. Birthday magic. Now, definitely crying on my birthdays. It feels cleansing.
I get nostaligic about school which is so crazy because i was treated so bad by other classmates. I miss band and being able to play instruments with others. I know what you mean by losing your christmas sparkle and i feel that honestly. These past few years christmas havent been as great as it used to be but now that im a first time mom and get to do it with my baby it has brought back christmas sparkle in a different way. Also my childhood was great but my parents never bothered with santa claus which i wish they did. 😢
I feel my nostalgia most when I lived in Texas at the age of like 8-9. My family is military so we moved around a lot so I was always forced to make new friends but now that I’m older I always look back to this time where we had a whole group of the neighborhood kids and we were this big friend group. Everyday we could hang out we all would go out and just be kids and like ride bikes or make up silly dances. I really miss those times and it’s sad to think about now because I follow only a few of those people and it’s just kinda sad to see how we’ve all grown up apart from each other and how different we are and how different all of our lives ended up… I’m feeling those same growing pains as I’m approaching 24 now fighting for my life just to exist and pay rent… oh to be a kid again…
I remember putting That reindeer food right outside our house Christmas eve and waking up in the middle of the night to see deer hooves in the snow I was so convinced it was Santa's reindeer 🤣 we just have a lot of deer around my area being so close to the woods lmaoo
Mucker I’m watching this and as an eldest sister, i have to refute about not decorating for the holidays. I know you travel a lot, but try to build your own collection of holiday decorations over the years to come. Create your own nostalgia! If anyone for the girls. I have lived alone since I was 17 and realized this. Love you.
looove this second channel so glad you’re posting here again!! ❤️
I have been sad the past couple years due to nostalgia. As I’ve grown up, I’ve missed all the memories I have had with family and friends. My birthday is in November, and I loved Halloween the most. Though obviously once I grew out of trick or treating, we would attended haunted attractions for a couple years, and that lost the novelty once I grew older post college. Also, following Halloween, when it’s November, I wouldn’t be in the Christmas mood like everyone else seemed to be. Actually Christmas had lost it’s luster for me, for years. I work in retail, and dealing with the crowds of people shopping really does drain me of caring about the holiday. It’s actually depressing when I think about it. Also I’m not as close with my friends as I once was, so I feel like I’m losing out on making new memories with them. 😢 I do have one close friend who has made me feel special on my birthday at least. But Christmas has been overrated for me for the most part. I used to try and decorate and bake cookies to heal the depression, but I wish I had as much fun as everyone else seems to have during the holidays.
watching this on my birthday while crying yesssssss
Christmas to me was always about CHOIR!! I was in choir every year of school and Christmas season was my favorite! I am totally a snob about the classics on the radio though 😅 I prefer the choir songs and they're difficult to get unless you make your own playlist. My Junior year we got selected to sing in the Disney World Candlelight Christmas show! It was soooooo cool! Chita Rivera was the guest speaker for the show
adam i feel the christmas thing so much.. i was in high school choir and we’d sing christmas songs at our state capital and it was always so magical since they had a huge tree 🩵 i really do miss it 😭
I truly understand where your coming from there is so many people who longs for the nostalgia this time of year, so your not alone at all.
But unfortunately, I was one of those people who didn't have a "great" upbringing, so around the holidays I don't feel nostalgia, I think "envious?" is a right word to use. And not for nefarious reasons, I just wished I experienced joyful events like others. So, I vicariously live through others experiences, so yeah.
sorry for the rant😅
Adam I’m really struggling and you always help so much. I luv u ❤️
ughhh u discussed this so well
i feel nostalgia so deeply lol tyyy this really hit😔👊
“Praise be to Santa” is the new “merry christmas”
see, i’m very iffy on holidays, because i never really did holidays as a kid (except halloween.) and all in all my family just never was super close. but now at 21, i want so bad to get into the holiday spirit but i still don’t have anyone to do it with for the most part (yes, i’m aware i can do it on my own but it’s not as fun) and it still makes little me jealous of the kids who got to celebrate, but also so sad i never got to do it. so i honestly just hope one day i have a family of my own, because i would go above and beyond to do everything to celebrate, because i think in a way it will heal parts of the inner kid in me too. this year i’m doing Friendsgiving with my best friends group of friends (i don’t have a big group of friends, and she kinda does bc she goes to college, and i’m honestly just so happy she included me in it) so i’m really hoping that goes well, and i feel some holiday cheer from it.
Hii Adam!!! I hope you release some boston tour dates soon. Would absolutely love to go to ur tour. Love you Adam♥️
Watching this while applying to grad school!! Keeping me going fr ❤❤
My family has celebrated HallowThanksMas before! We dressed up for Halloween on Christmas and had a full on Thanksgiving meal 😋it was fun, I think we only did it twice though...
yk its a good day when adam starts posting on the vlog channel again but now we NEED vlogs but love the talks tho mucker💜💜💜
the older i've gotten, the holidays are nothing like they used to be unfortunately. i've been struggling every year trying to make my own traditions or make it enjoyable again, but i fear nothing will compare to the christmas/holiday magic and nostalgia of when i was younger
I think I went through the same Christmas thoughts at your age. The first couple of years of working... I was spending 100+ dollars per person (was living with parents).
Now, it's not feasible for me to get "large" gifts (especially since both my mom and dad live 1000+ miles away from me and both live near their siblings).
It's also just... not necessary? If I'm with my family, that's a gift itself.
"Nostalgia is a mind's trick" - from I Hate It Here by Taylor Swift
poured myself some wine & instantly clicked when I saw the notification 🥰 I’m SAT.
Very insightful video ❤️.
I suppose the way I see nostalgia, or just looking at the past in general is in 3 ways (in my opinion, not a factual statement) :
Some things can and will stay and become a part of you, be it the smallest thing or the biggest gesture.
Some things change with nuance, for better or worse- but they change nonetheless and your relation to them evolves because of it.
Some things you will have to let go and keep moving forward without them.
Adam, I’m right there with u. I’ve thought about all that many many times. BUT like u said, u enjoy different things now
Does anyone else miss video stores? Or am I the only old one? (37 lol)
Man Adam, your parents sound wonderful. Super jealous, but so glad you’re parents put in so much effort
yessss love these type of videos !!
This video is so cute omg❤
A perfect example of nostalgia being evil:
Trish giving Jeffree another chance
omg the cozy viiiibes
Hi Adam hope ur doing well it’s so nice to see u thriving lately!!
Love you Adam ❤ would love a tour date in Dublin someday, have a great day
This makes me love you even more as a human❤
I love your videos Adam
Love you 💜
YESSSS MORE SECOND CHANNEL CONTENT!!!! I LOVE IT HERE
I love you Adam!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
This birthday talk is making me realise that next year is the last year in my 20s. I’ll be 29 in January 😂
But spending the year upset about it won’t change anything...it is what it is.
I just wish housing and living wasn’t so expensive, so I could actually reach “milestones” and not feel so behind every year I get closer to 30 and I don’t have my own place 😂
20:12 you choose the priorities
Yeah! So much in one day! ❤
the content today THANK YOU MOTHER MUCKER X
Because we need magic. We really need to believe in magic, we need that unpredictable dimension to have hope, to move forward. And there isn’t a thing wrong with that.
love these 2nd channel videos
Second channel vibes😍😍😍
The whole Christmas present concept is odd to me as an adult. For my kids, they love making Christmas lists and I gift them a few things that they really want. Adults just want wine and peace lol
Last year was my sons first Christmas but I was deeeep in Post partum depression so I’m looking forward to this year!! But fuck elf on the shelf 😂😂😂
Hiii Adam, I'm earlllyyy! ❤
you caught me in my feelings 🙄🙄
What do you mean Santa's not real?
I had a great childhood but just always a skeptic and never believed in him like that lol, I think for a sec believed tooth fairy but not really lol 12:43
adam come to sac!! love ur content ❤❤
Good evening Adam perfect timing as I was walking to the bathroom to brush my teeth I hear the discord notice that you posted a new video and I was like oh hell yeah😁😁😁
idk if it’s just me but the derry accent is really present in the last few videos
i agree
The furniture they “give”? Is it normal to have furniture supplied for you?
One year I found the Santa shop in the lesser used attic at 8, I think. They convinced us it was for charity for other kids. Which didn’t flag back then as even then I knew those bitches weren’t and still are not that charitable. Anyways they had to make a great effort every year to try make sure I still believed. The last year at 12, they got my cousin next door to ring the doorbell at like 8pm. Our whole lives Santa came in the middle of the night. Anyways door bell rings so they send me out. I open the door look around and go back in saying no one was there. Not seeing the bags 😂
My cousin nearly killed herself trying to get back over the wall and not been seen by me and then I didn’t even notice the bags. Black bags in the dark front hall so what did they expect anyways 😂
We do Secret Santa, one sister doesn’t partake and her and her husband do their own thing at Christmas. The rest of us and brother in law do it, limit is €100, but you can go above if you want. We make wish lists and that if you are stuck. We have always opened gifts on Christmas Eve, sk we still do that. Christmas dinner at around 3pm is what makes Christmas Day, then watching movies and the turkey sandwiches later at night, usually around 10pm after coming out of the dinner food coma.
I love Christmas but I am very guilty of not making an effort to do Christmassy things. I plan to do some baking, see some carol singers, drive around looking at other peoples decorations. The SAD has hit me hard already, so I’m looking forward to putting the lights up and tree is going up early too
I am pretty sure you were moving around that time?
Don’t forget about Thanksgiving first.
Just pulled lasagna out of the oven. Something to watch while I eat 🤪
Hi mucker ❤ Im early yay
I dont like gambling either i just dont get it. Like yaaaay im losing money soooo fuuuuuun.
Don't forget about America Thanksgiving
Reporting for duty mama 🫡
This video on top of the election in the states did NOT hit queen I’m sorry lol I’m depressed
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💜🩵 Nostalgia is normal. I feel it helps us cherish the now when we healthily process the nostalgia. That is what you're trying to do now. It's beautiful to see 🩵💜
I used to LOVE feeding the reindeers omg 🥹 My parents used to have us make reindeer food at home and I remember vividly the way it would shimmer in the yard and I don’t know how the ever loving fuck they did it, but in the morning the glitter and “food” was always gone 🥹🥺
Last year was my sons first Christmas but I was deeeep in Post partum depression so I’m looking forward to this year!! But fuck elf on the shelf 😂😂😂