Having any sort of relationship with your neighbors. I just want to say hello from time to time and know who lives around me. The sense of any sort of local community is hard to find.
Just not knowing something. Not just a word or definition, but just not knowing (enough) about a subject and that being okay. Nowadays, everyone who has watched a YouTube or TikTok video claims to be an expert. It’s perfectly fine to not know enough about a subject to form an opinion.
Comments
P hub
Self decency
my happiness & sanity
Friendship
Landlines
Privacy
Vhs tapes
education
Privacy
People talking to each over the phone instead of texting, others showing courtesies to strangers people they don’t know.
Stores open past 11 PM
Newspapers
Empathy
Toll Takers
Common sense.
My sanity
My self respect
Freedoms and rights
Snow
America.
pay telephone booths
Manners, common courtesy, mutual respect, class, modesty, being nice to others
The value of money
People’s filters.
Civil discourse with people outside our echo chamber
The utility of products
Self-awareness
Media literacy
Where did the hippies go?
Fireflies
Perpetual licenses instead of paying monthly for every single thing
Manners & Respect.
Time
Democracy
Gauges in cars. They all 16:9 wide screens now
Biodiversity
Common sense
Critical thinking.
That you can read newspaper and do not think if it’s true or not. Also funny memes
Basic dignity and self-respect.
Professionalism in the government
Bugs, specifically the ones that hit your windshield on a long road trip. It’s honestly alarming.
Having any sort of relationship with your neighbors. I just want to say hello from time to time and know who lives around me. The sense of any sort of local community is hard to find.
Trick or treaters on Halloween.
Self-awareness and social cues
When I was a kid, I always heard the US called a “melting pot.”. Our strength was in our diversity.
I haven’t heard that phrase for 20 years.
Same answers we gave when this question was asked every day for the last 2 months.
Respect
Bugs.
You remember the front of cars being covered in dead bugs? and how in the summers you would have a constant pitter-patter of bugs on the wildshield?
When was the last time you saw a ladybug or butterfly vs how often you saw them when you were younger? When did you last see a firefly?
bug populations have plummeted last few decades, 70% since 1950.
Good fashion in public?
Sanity
Just not knowing something. Not just a word or definition, but just not knowing (enough) about a subject and that being okay. Nowadays, everyone who has watched a YouTube or TikTok video claims to be an expert. It’s perfectly fine to not know enough about a subject to form an opinion.
My unlimited data caps
skunks
Bees & crickets
I don’t miss the cricket’s chirping, but I’ve read that the population of bees is decreasing which is very scary.
Human decency
Where did all the bugs go?
My will to live.
Your freedom
Human decency
Almost everything replaced by a smartphone. Eg calendar.
Butterflies, and free, open, wild spaces.