@thomasmalucelli
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@thomasmalucelli I was born in the 80s, 1986 to be exact. I’ve lived long enough to feel the weight and the wonder of time. Growing up is strange 🤷♂️ High school feels like another lifetime. People I couldn’t imagine losing are now just memories. Love ended. New love found me when I wasn’t looking (although I prepared for it). My grandparents are gone. My parents are aging. I’m aging. Life kept changing before I was ready. And still… I kept going. I remember a world before phones lived in our hand. Rocking up to a friend’s house and ringing the bell, hoping they were home. Calling the house phone and asking “Hi… is Alex there?” Making mixtapes on a cassette and praying the radio host wouldn’t talk over the song. Saturday morning cartoons in pyjamas. Walkmans with tangled earphones. Burning CDs. Hand-written notes folded like origami and passed in class. Printed photos you had to wait a week to see. Getting lost and figuring it out without Google Maps. Boredom - the kind that made you creative. Life was slower, louder, simpler… and we didn’t know it was golden until it was gone. Growing up is beautiful. It’s grief and gratitude living in the same room. It’s watching old chapters close without notice, while new ones quietly begin. It’s realising nostalgia is a sign you lived, really lived. I used to think everyone else had it figured out except me. Now I know: none of us do. We’re all just trying, hurting, healing, and starting over. Time is precious. The people you love are not promised. Don’t take any of it for granted.
