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shermantanktop | on: Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
Sure, I was being extreme. The danger is getting stuck, like in “Glory Days” by Springsteen, or Brando in “On the Waterfront.” People especially get stuck on their high school years.
trick-or-treat | parent
Thinking of happy memories sounds like a perfectly healthy activity to me, TBH
shermantanktop | root | parent
Sure. I won’t be 16 again and I look back fondly on that too.

IMO it’s a problem if doing that stops you from making new happy memories. Life is for living.

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