Are you over the age of 20, with two parents who in some order married, created 1-14 smaller versions of themselves and raised them all in the same house, kept on the same career path, and marked your heights on the doorframe every year to assure you all that only one thing was changing?
What a strange life.
I meet people like you from time to time, and you all have some odd illusion of permanency that I really think would have benefitted from a divorce or two in your formative years.
You have reached adulthood without learning the following things:
- Things end
- This is okay
- Sometimes there's new stuff in their place and sometimes they're just gone; both are acceptable outcomes
- Making a decision in your 20s and doggedly sticking with it for the rest of your life is neither sensible nor modern
- Stability is useful but not guaranteed
- Relatedly, owning a house makes moving house a bloody pain
- How to pack boxes so your tiny child arms can lift them
- Sometimes it is better to pick up and leave, even if you've spent a long time digging
- Love does not lead to significantly better health outcomes than placebo
Please spend time focusing on these lessons, or you will have to spend your 20s learning them the hard way, by making decisions that are neither sensible nor modern. If you need more explaination, ask your nearest child of divorce. We're trying to work out which parent forgot to teach us to bleed a radiator.
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