May 16Liked by Samuél Lopez-Barrantes, Meg Oolders
I really enjoyed the candid nature of this, and the thoughts. I tend not to think about the future (at best, we could say I'm driven by impulse, at worst, that I'm irresponsibly impulsive) but I am currently at a moment in life (a second adolescence indeed) where for the first time in my life I am actually thinking about "late" life, the scary second half. And what I imagine is not so bad. I'll tell you more about it sometime, but I imagine we'll still be in similar orbits.
I really like this idea of reclaiming the adolescent moments in our lives versus relegating them to singularly embarrassing memories of acne and middle school crushes. There's a liberation, too though, in having the wisdom and/or experience to be able to envision a future and go out and capture it, versus stare wide-eyed at the possibilities whilst wondering why Rosanna hasn't responded to my AIM in 3 hours and I thought yesterday in the snack line she smiled at me what's going on?
We will surely be orbiting as planets in the same Parisian galaxy for many decades to come. It's a vision I abide.
I love the warmth and hope in this exchange.
Thanks friend. We need a bit of warm hope these days--and a lot of it.
Thank you for reading, John. Samuel has a way of bringing out the warm hopeful in me. And probably lots of other people. 😊
It's usually a pretty even match between warm and hopeful and existentially daunting and potentially a low-hum bummer. The pendulum swings.
You're telling ME, it swings. 😊
That's quite a succinct summary of life...!
Could not adore this more!
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Thank you friend.
I really enjoyed the candid nature of this, and the thoughts. I tend not to think about the future (at best, we could say I'm driven by impulse, at worst, that I'm irresponsibly impulsive) but I am currently at a moment in life (a second adolescence indeed) where for the first time in my life I am actually thinking about "late" life, the scary second half. And what I imagine is not so bad. I'll tell you more about it sometime, but I imagine we'll still be in similar orbits.
I really like this idea of reclaiming the adolescent moments in our lives versus relegating them to singularly embarrassing memories of acne and middle school crushes. There's a liberation, too though, in having the wisdom and/or experience to be able to envision a future and go out and capture it, versus stare wide-eyed at the possibilities whilst wondering why Rosanna hasn't responded to my AIM in 3 hours and I thought yesterday in the snack line she smiled at me what's going on?
We will surely be orbiting as planets in the same Parisian galaxy for many decades to come. It's a vision I abide.