currently at my cubicle preparing a presentation, wishing this moment will once forget
That’s a dope wood carving of a turtle
Stop living in the past and live now. Everything becomes a memory.
That moment where you don’t even have memories of the good times anymore.
Some people call that mindfulness and pay professionals to achieve that state. Others, like me, consider it hell to be constantly aware of this without the ability to turn it off.
The view out that window could be any number of European cities.
I’m guessing Madrid
looks a lot like Paris.
Paris for sure, interior & outside match 100%.
One day we’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember
I’m currently in the “one day” phase. Enjoy those friendships while they last. You will miss them.
Maybe I’m mentally ill but I don’t look fondly back upon my youth hanging out with people. I also feel like life was miserable until I was 35 because that’s when I kind of broke free of shitty old habits and thinking and starting making decent money.
I think about it and I regret it. Wish I had been doing more interesting/productive stuff with my time other than getting high/drunk and dicking around. But sadly the option didn’t really exist where I grew up, so you had to fill the void.
I also don’t get the sentiment of people who like wish they could go back to being a teenager or child. But I like being an adult.
Sure you had the right kind of people around you back then?
I like the saying “time that is enjoyed wasting isn’t wasted”, but it sounds like it wasn’t enjoyable to you back then…
There were no better people to be around.
We don’t get to pick our parents or where we grow up. I’m just grateful I was smart and driven enough to get out of there and I didn’t make stupid choices that would have made my life miserable as theirs were.
I know that experience. I’m glad you got out.
yeah, what sucks is a lot of people who don’t directly have that experience think it doesn’t exist.
or the folks who think you’re a ‘traitor’ for improving your life.
I don’t really have an issue with that, a little nostalgia is ok. The stuff that does bug me is friendships that have disappeared. Whether just by distance and time or because the people in it have changed so much that you can’t really relate well anymore.
Enjoy the moment for what it is, not worrying about if you’ll be able to do this later in life. You’ll have plenty of rewarding experiences later in life they’ll just be different experiences because your priorities change and what you find enjoyable changes.
