{"id":499500,"date":"2022-10-09T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/that-must-have-been-before-my-time\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:00:23","slug":"that-must-have-been-before-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/that-must-have-been-before-my-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u201cThat Must Have Been Before My Time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a300e651d44f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a300e651d44f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/that-must-have-been-before-my-time\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%9CThat_Must_Have_Been_Before_My_Time%E2%80%9D%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;\u201cThat Must Have Been Before My Time\u201d&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/that-must-have-been-before-my-time\/#Where_Young_and_Old_Find_Common_Ground\" >Where Young and Old Find Common Ground<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/that-must-have-been-before-my-time\/#The_Good_Old_Days\" >The Good Old Days<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%9CThat_Must_Have_Been_Before_My_Time%E2%80%9D%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;\u201cThat Must Have Been Before My Time\u201d&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage  wp-image-837528 size-full\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/imageedit_3_4261998848.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A caller ID screen showing the word &quot;Dad.&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-illustration\/family-3d-rendering-abstract-phone-calling-735226576\" data-credittext=\"klss\/Shutterstock.com\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-illustration\/family-3d-rendering-abstract-phone-calling-735226576\">klss\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Better than any moisturizer or old pair of pants that suddenly fit is the moment when you don\u2019t get the reference that a person a little older than you just made. Every generation does it to the generation that preceded them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat must have been before my time,\u201d we love to say, as if we\u2019re wheeling the person into an old folks home.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a disheartening experience. A poor guy is talking about some old television show or band with unbridled enthusiasm, lost in a nostalgic reverie about this thing he likes so much, and the younger person has no idea what he\u2019s talking about. They stare like a confused dog turning their head back and forth, and remark, as if thrusting a dagger, \u201cThat must have been before my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guy falls backwards a few feet, and a single tear comes to his eye. \u201cOh,\u201d he usually only manages to respond.<\/p>\n<p>When uttered or received, the line is akin to a woman mentioning she has a boyfriend or a guy announcing he\u2019s a cop. It creates a sudden distance between two people and establishes clear demarcations and limits. In this case, one has been established as the old person, and the other as the young person. They can never go back to their earlier innocence.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Where_Young_and_Old_Find_Common_Ground\"><\/span>Where Young and Old Find Common Ground<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Everyone does it. I\u2019ve heard 20-year-olds say this to 30-year-olds, and I\u2019ve heard people in their fifties say this to people in their sixties. Sometimes it\u2019s obviously sarcastic and done with the overt intention of ballbusting, but other times, it\u2019s totally sincere and underhanded and said with a cold expression on the face.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase is inherently odd because plenty of things h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened before our time: World War II, the Spanish Inquisition, Jazzercise, yarn\u2013but we all don\u2019t take pride in not knowing about those things. Perhaps it\u2019s a little different with pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>Every generation loves annihilating the collective cultural experience of the previous one while canonizing their own. We all need to believe that our window of time is the most important one. That\u2019s why, every ten years, people love talking about how the world\u2019s <em>actually<\/em> going to end during their lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not because they really believe that; it\u2019s simply ego in thinking that such a monumental event would have to happen during their lifetimes. It won\u2019t. The world is going to go on, and people will see many beautiful sunrises and Apple updates long after you\u2019re dead. Sorry.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Good_Old_Days\"><\/span>The Good Old Days<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Youth both causes us to over-romanticize pop culture we experienced while we were thin and cute and trample over other culture we didn\u2019t experience because the world hadn\u2019t yet been graced by our presence.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve both said \u201cThat must have been before my time\u201d to others and had it said to me. Once I was discussing <em>Godfather II<\/em> and a friend muttered, \u201cHaven\u2019t seen it, it was before my time,\u201d adding that great topper, \u201cI didn\u2019t grow up with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I was like, \u201cYeah, I didn\u2019t grow up with <em>Godfather II<\/em> either, but I have this ability to look things up that happened awhile ago.\u201d Then I took him for a long boat ride and only I returned. He\u2019d probably still be alive if he\u2019d seen it.<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t necessarily be proud of not knowing anything (for the most part), but don\u2019t be too proud of obscure knowledge either, and understand that it\u2019s silly to expect successive generations to relate emotionally to what you grew up with. Even if they do know the reference you just made, they\u2019ll never quite care in the same manner.<\/p>\n<p>This is all part of the reason I\u2019m looking forward to the creation of perfect AI robots. They\u2019ll never say something so cruel as \u201cThat was before my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u2019ll go, \u201cI have the total knowledge of all human existence as recorded in the digital age, so yes mortal human, I did see that episode of <em>Three\u2019s Company<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <strong><em>I Don&#8217;t Know Who Any of These People Are, and It&#8217;s Great<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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