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For me: I'm still living with my family of origin...
It's so weird...
I remember... okay I might have said this a bunch of times throught various comments but:
I remember in 2010...
When I first arrived in the US at 8 years old
And it was like November or December
And I was in Brooklyn, NY
And there was this huge snowstorm
the entire street where I lived in was covered in snow
My first snowstorm ever
That is a memory that is forever carved into my hippocampus
The snowstorm nowadays just make me wanna be a kid again
Its so sad that the passage of time destroys everything
I never really appreciate childhood when I was in the moment, until it the moment has already gone
I never thought of taking pictures to preserve the moment
I never did journaling
I never thought of future-me... aka present-me
I was just there...
And now I'm here...
okay I sound like I'm rambling lol
Like every time there's a flashback scene in movies/tv especially depicting childhood, I just get this weird nostalgia thing where my brain triggers its own "flashback scene"
so weird
I want a fucking time machine
I want to do the time-travel consciousness transfer thing like in Travelers (the tv show)
I wanna relive that moment
Forever
Forever
Actually idk
I had no freedom in that moment
Not like I really have much freedoms now either
But I have the internet now
I didn't yet have internet access during the first few months in the US
But idk why that snowstorm is like the most memorable "first impressions" of America
Anyways, back to the present
I'm living with family
But now its so... awkward
I sort of feel that nostalgia
But still... I've been through so much emotional trauma
Now we feel like strangers
Even though we've known each other for two decades
We've been together for two decades
I remember... vaguely remember... sometimes there's like a snow storm
And this was when I was in Philly and I had my own laptop
So I'd wake up at like 5AM and check the school district website to see if there's a snow day
And the I see the text in red banner.
The text that says school is cancelled
Like...
The
JOY
So then I told my mom that and then I just chilled on the internet for the rest of the day...
So AWESOME!
but yea...
oops I rambled for too long, I doubt anyone is gonna read this... xD
Life is what you make of it. e.g., enjoy school, because if you have to go anyway then why not? Make it a good one! It's the only one you have...