I Outgrew Buying Experiences Not Things.

Being a nomad got old.

Photo by Tobias Tullius on Unsplash — arguably, this *is* one of the best experiences life has to offer, even when you’ve done it a hundred times. I don’t need to do it for months at a time anymore though. Give me a week or two to catch up on all the books I installed on my Kindle and I’m good.

I know any Sprinter-dwelling millennial reading this is cringing right now, but yeah, that’s what happened. Experiences are fun and I’ve traveled the world, but these days I get more enjoyment from sitting at home playing with my toys — and there’s not a damn thing wrong with it.

I don’t envy the generations that have followed mine. Right now, a lot sucks: the economy sucks, the music (mostly) sucks, the government sucks, the Supreme Court especially sucks. So does college debt and the real estate market. My parents’ generation started some bullshit and millennials and Gen Z are suffering the consequences, and that also sucks. And Gen X? Everyone forgets about us, but that’s fine. We made a lotta noise back in the day, and if we’ve made any sort of success of ourselves since, we’re generally content leveraging our social and financial power to continue to work for change.

But, as my grandmother used to say, kids these days got the shit end of the stick (my grandma was a special lady, for sure), so yeah… play music while the ship sinks, because unfortunately, there won’t be room on the door for everyone. I’m not knocking it, just don’t knock me for wanting to hang out at home (and by that I don’t just mean ‘where my heart is’).