Conversation

Aella
@Aella_Girl
I always knew I was gonna die, so I spend attention cherishing the present moment. But I don't think I fully appreciated, as a young adult, how many of the joys in my life were going to pass - friend groups, passionate interests, nice places I lived, etc.
23
1,126
Aella
@Aella_Girl
My life is good now, but it's so different from what it was. Younger me didn't anticipate that one day I *wouldn't* want to be reading a fantasy novel every day, or spend 8 hours/day chatting in online groups with people I'd never met. I thought that would be me forever
32.1K
Views
10
Retweets
464
Likes
Fake Mustache
@Bent0916
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."
2
shortsandblacksocks
@scarchin
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
I had a heart attack on a holiday weekend, so I had to stay in the hospital for a few extra days. Time to think. I thought of all of the things I'd been worried about before the HA. All total bullshit when put against the big picture. Changed my life.
5
Ernest Fasanya
@ernest_fasanya
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
Give it a few years, and even what you have just written will seem...trite. Next big realisation: it comes around again! You'll love that stuff again, but in a different way. And then? Looks circular, but is actually a helix looked at from the top down. Plus ça change...
4
Ding Kamb
@authentickemp
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
Consider the exact same phenomenon in the context of polyamory and what your life might look like when you are no longer able to find various groups of people to be romantically and sexually involved with and then you may understand why monogamy is the human default
1
2