Are the dreams of youth the regrets of maturity? Really?

posted 1 month ago

big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space

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Or was Darkness just blowing smoke?

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j4k3@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

Damn it! That is a pretty good measure for maturity. Do you have the self awareness and experience to regret your youthful dreams?

I certainly do. I fixated on car culture at 15. I didn’t know I enjoy being a Maker most, or that applied science is the field of the ultimate Maker demigods. If I could go back and explain this to myself, it would likely be deeply fulfilling.

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Tangent5280@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

Is something stopping you from going into the applied sciences?

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j4k3@lemmy.world

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1 month ago

I only barely survived a crash with two cars while riding a bicycle to work. My spine is all messed up and it appears unfixable. I’m professionally incompetent due to the deeply unstable sleep patterns. Sleeping remedies cause inactivity that create further problems. I am the undead trapped in limbo.

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