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People of Lemmy who have either "reinvented themselves" or gone through a mid/quarter-life crisis, where did you start off and where did you end up? (lemmy.world)

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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I found I had some backsliding when I went back to my original hometown too.

I expect it's the same mechanism where even if you know you're adult and might even have grown beyond where your parents were, you still feel like a little kid around them sometimes? Even if they don't DESERVE to have that sort of power over you these days?

I wouldn't consider it proof of anything bad beyond our little monkey brains sometimes doing the things monkey brains do, like hold onto bad stuff and bad memories.

[-] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You’re right, and I generally remember that I have many blessings to count… but like you said, primate brains doing primate brain things.

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