@thomasmalucelli
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@thomasmalucelli Where are my 1986 babies at? Old enough to remember life before the internet… and young enough to remember the first time we logged on. Dial-up tones that took forever to connect. MSN nicknames. Tamagotchis that always died too soon. Handwritten notes passed in class. Nokia 3310s and text messages that cost 25 cents each. Burning CDs, recording songs off the radio, MTV and feeling unstoppable with a flip phone in your pocket. We watched technology grow up with us and somehow, it changed us too. The world sped up. We didn’t. Now months feel like weeks. Our parents are aging. So are we. Friends became strangers. Strangers became family. We lost people we thought we’d have forever. I love my morning workouts. I’d rather a slow dinner with people I love than a night I won’t remember. No more escaping. No more pretending. Growing up is strange. It’s grief and gratitude sitting side by side. It’s looking back at the kid you once were and whispering, we made it. And maybe that’s what getting older really is not chasing the next thing, but finally feeling at home in who you’ve become.
