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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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We’re all experiencing life differently. Never take anything personally. Stay in your own lane. Do what makes you happy and give others the same grace.

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

• the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
• taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
• at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
• 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
• it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
• it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
• you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
• young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
• there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

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Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

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From ‘Transfiguration’ by Robert Gligorov, 2013 

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