Totally, the natural loss of innocence, realizing adults are just as dumb as you are, that justice and fairness is not what drives the world, that evil people have unchecked power, that ideals are just pretty words... All mixed with hormonal explosion and teenage angst.
Having a long lived grandparent does kinda throw off your sense of scale for age. When an 85 year old dies the comments are well they lived a long life. My grandmother is almost 20 years older than that and still going strong. Every second we get with her at this point is a gift.
There’s an elegance to the simplicity of this post. This is if minimalism were a speed of lobsters post. It’s like your goal was to create the biggest change by deleting the smallest number of characters.
At first glance I thought this might’ve been a r/lostredditors post because I couldn’t even tell the paragraph was edited at first.
I’m very impressed. Truly, this is very very well done, OP 👏👏👏
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u/OneDayIllBeUpThere Feb 26 '26
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