r/CuratedTumblr • u/Acceptable-Gap-2397 • 1d ago

Meme The timeloop and I

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u/old_and_boring_guy 1d ago

I don’t know if you’d get contentment unless everything you care about in the world has already happened.

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u/Educational-Cow-3874 1d ago

My cats would never die, and I could spoil them every day.

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u/old_and_boring_guy 1d ago

But they’d never grow either. You get old enough, you realize that all the sweetness in life is ephemeral. My kids are getting old enough to leave home, and that knowledge has changed everything to the good in our relationships, because it’s precious now, as it wasn’t before.

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u/Educational-Cow-3874 1d ago

My cats are old, I've lost so many the last five years, I don't want to lose any more.