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What has been the biggest surprise about getting older? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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when I was young everything “in the past” had equal weighting and distance from my existence.

As a young person I relate to this feeling. Sometimes I forget how close to my birth some historical events were. Like, 9/11 was just a couple years before my birth, and the end of the USSR was closer to my birth than I am (and by quite a margin). Which... to me, the USSR feels very much "in the past".

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