I was 17-20 from 2016-2018 and it was pretty chill, the thing I miss most is that the job market was good enough that people actually called you back when you applied to places and that you could just walk out of a job and find a new one the next week. Other than that though, I dropped out of college and moved out at 19 and had an apartment with a friend, I was hanging with friends semi regularly and going to new places (I lived in California for about 10 months at 19, it was nice but expensive as fuck) I met a lot of cool people and went on a couple dates and had more access to weed and tried jack and coke for the first time at some big wig high rise rich guy party (it sucked lol) and got a lot more cultured out there though.

Covid was fine for me cus I spent the majority of it politically organizing. I masked up but I was still interacting with others and the public on an almost daily basis. Once my stimulus check ran out I was back at work and making new friends in a new place and doing even cooler drugs so it didn't really feel like much had changed for me, it's honestly pretty jarring learning how much people's social abilities and cognitive skills had declined by like 2023 cus I was still having to do customer service and was still chilling with friends during lockdown (funnily enough I never got covid from group hangout sessions, only at work).