Dialectics of Decline

Dialectics of Decline

Losing What You Never Had

Is this all there is?

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Aug 01, 2025
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One of my earliest memories was when I was six years old and writing in my diary about how sad I was about how much time had gone by and how I’d never get that time back. As silly as it might sound, for someone so young to have such a sense of melancholy about these things, with their whole life ahead of them, that feeling never quite left me. The passa…

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