sometimes I'm doing technical work and I get slammed with a sense of surrealness not impostor syndrome exactly, but rather \
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how boring would it be though if it were too predictable or slow?
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oh I'm not complaining! it's good I think? maybe? idk I've been really morbid about ageing since I read IT when I was twelve
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Yeah I guess it could go any way! I dunno, I've been jonesing for adulthood since I was like 8 tho. What is IT?
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https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Stephen-King/dp/1501142976 … plot has kids fighting evil thing at cusp of adolescence, forgetting it all, coming back in 40s to repeat
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I've found lately that to orient myself when I'm "lost" in work, I reimagine, sort of simulate from my beginning to now
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to get a stronger grip, get a bit more stable, wherever I am.. even if it's at a desk
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does that help? I might guess it would increase the surrealness even, sort of make one's sense of self more temporally diffuse(?)
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It's sort of like a fast moving bolt visualization from the past, and then a very quick deceleration to that moment, giving a
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sort of "push", momentum, to that present moment... I think I'd call it "narrative momentum", and then it makes sense to keep
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doing whatever I'm doing. So it helps temporarily until getting "lost" again, and takes some effort; maybe it's not so efficient
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