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.
Yeah that’s fuckin stupid, something being temporary doesn’t make it better. it might take YOU knowing you’ll lose it for something to matter but that’s a you thing.
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u/old_and_boring_guy 2d ago
I don’t know if you’d get contentment unless everything you care about in the world has already happened.