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How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Mine is nostalgia. That's literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days. It's not that I sit here everyday and never move on to newer things, I do sometimes embrace new things and realize there's more out there than what I have.

It's just, there's an online radio show I still listen to, to this day and it's episodes are like 17 years old and been out of syndication for a good long while now with no hope of returning. It's like my time capsule that opens up so much in my mind, so many memories, so many what-ifs to think about, bringing me back to where things were in that time period .etc

And it's something I just don't think I'll ever let go because as much as I've tried to find a place in this awfully trashed world, I'm always winding back at square one because either I'm incompatible or it is incompatible with me.

I just want to go back to the 2000s and do it all over again and meet who I know now just to see how things could've gone if we've all met earlier.

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[–] CosmicCleric 3 points 6 months ago

How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?

Decay is a constant. But so is renewal. If you remember that, then that gets you through your life experiences.

Mine is nostalgia. That’s literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days.

Nostalgia is great, especially in helping you remember the past. But you shouldn't focus exclusively on that, as then it just becomes a drug, and you become the monkey in the cage pushing the button over and over again for the next pellet of food.

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