BUS STOP - Aging

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#25263 Name: Anonymous 12h

Getting older is hard to cope with. You can never go backwards, only forwards. Nostalgia stings, and regrets accumulate. It would be nice to wake up and be young again; Living in a world where adults are authority figures, life is on rails, and everything can wait.

Living in the present is clearly the way to go, but I am so bored and understimulated.

#25265 Name: Anonymous 12h

>>25264
Talking to people is great, adds some much needed colour, for sure.

Perhaps the grave mindset is a sign of burnout? Hard to accept burning out as someone who isn't career-minded anymore. Or as someone who is a child at heart.

Another thing is missing when everything was new to you. Then over time, nothing becomes surprising.

Hopefully this can all be undone. Stubbornness makes giving up a non-option.

#25267 Name: Anonymous 15h

>>25266
Social pressures as a teen, whatever your family's circumstances, hormones kicking in. Being a teenager is definitely not a time to romanticize much. Life before 13-14 was much more ideal to me.

cheering someone's day up with something I made

Never really thought about marking art with that purpose. Usually I make art to amuse myself, regardless of how half-baked the attempt is. But as a tool of brightening the world, might be a good idea.