>when you realize that historical times looked like real life and not like old movies
Am I the only one who's done this?
I do this everytime I see a high quality colorized photo of the past.
>>3137033
It's incredibly difficult for me to picture something as recent as the 1950s without film grain and faded colors.
Do crabs think fish can fly?
>>3137026
Yep. And to all those people in the "past", it wasn't "the past". It was "right now".
When I realised that I became so depressed. Also when you take into account how fast time passes and how little time there really was between the ancient philosophers and us. Best thing is just to not think about it
>>3137033
The older I get, the closer the past gets in a certain sense. When I was 15 reading about the campaigns of Napoleon, Napoleon lived about 12 of my lifetimes ago. Now that I'm 34, Napoleon lived about 6 of my lifetimes ago.
>>3137744
Continue until you are at 0 lifetimes
That's me when
>you realize people are still the same and capable of acting in the backward ways of the past
>>3137026
It's pretty weird to imagine just by looking at black and white photos
That's why I love good colourizations
>>3137036
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War
For those who wonder where he got that idea (probably).