Dead pets. Miss em. Wish they could have stayed with me forever.

Playing in a band. It’s never been easier to play on my own, and in some ways I think it’s hard to be in a band since it involves a lot of compromise. But I do miss the feeling of regularly playing and making music with friends.

Mechanical fountain soda machines with free refills. This stuff costs like 2 cents and is always the best way to drink soda, but they seem to be dying out and disappearing.

Playing video games with friends. As I get older and tastes diverge it feels hard to get a group together to play games. It’s even more rare to play games together in the same room, staying up late into the night.

Finally, I miss that feeling that life is ahead of me and the ability to focus on dreaming and thinking about the future. As I get older, a lot more stuff is in the rear view mirror, the possibilities of the future seem more limited, and it’s easy to look back and question how you spent all that time in the past. I get more sad and scared thinking about the future, even though I’m sure that good things will happen too.