Let’s start with the most important thought from the week: eating fruit gummies is one of the most futuristic-feeling acts we currently have at our disposal as a species.
The colorful little plastic bags full of gelatinous objects formed into oblong shapes that never quite resemble the shapes of real fruit.
The artificial flavors and colors that create an experience that vaguely resembles eating the food they are meant to imitate.
The portability, the availability, and the normalcy of it all. It somehow feels foreign and familiar at the same time.
It’s true magic, and no on can tell me otherwise.
At the time of this writing, I’ve made the same mistakes quite a few times. There are many of them, too many to list, but it’s the concept here that matters.
This came up in conversation recently, and I decided that this time in my life, and for many of us, could be referred to as the “learning years.”
Yeah, typing that out now it feels real general and ambiguous, but it works for now.
If you’re smart and good at life you’ll be learning every day until the day you die. Unfortunately, most people stop learning after they graduate some level of schooling. As an aside to this main point, those people are often the loud, closed-minded ones who become unreasonably abrasive when you challenge their views (they don’t understand that people can have different, yet concurrently correct, opinions and views).
Back to the point.
I feel that now, entering my 30s, I’m starting to really learn those life lessons. I’ve gone through the cycle of being warned about the life lessons, being told what the life lessons are, living through a few of those life lessons, and now I’m finally beginning to change my way of life in an effort to no longer be subjected to the negative side of the life lessons.
It’s a really cool thing I’ve discovered about this human condition, and it’s exciting to watch myself evolve and change in real time.
An overwhelmingly positive thought recently that sort of goes hand in hand with the above point…
If you’re observant enough, you can watch friendships grow and evolve in realtime as well.
Most of us can remember one or two instances where a friendship or relationship implodes and is no more, but when was the last time you saw those same relationships grow in the other direction?
Recently I had the chance to witness this with actually a few different people, and it’s made me so appreciative of those people and the shared experiences that brought us to this new relationship dynamic.
There was a time not so long ago that I felt lost and alone and just not seen.
I’m glad to say that those days are (mostly) behind me.
Shoutout to new friends, if you’re reading this, thanks.
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