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And also hyper aware that it wasn't as hard as my brain was making it.

So then shame kicks in.

Like, why don't I get this?

Why am I not understanding this?

What is going on?

And then, and then, and then.

That is so fucking real.

You have not lived and suffered under the adversity of how hard things can really be.

So you just don't understand it and have no context for it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She calls it an unusually long, quiet spell.

And then she says, and sometimes I forget that you're young enough to have grown up in it.

You've seen a largely peaceful world as normal, but it is not.

And that also struck too, right?

Because, well, I mean, because all the other things, right?

Right.

Yep.

Uh, my generation and your generation, like not that it's been great because it hasn't been, but comparatively, comparatively, you know, we have been experiencing, uh, unusually long, quiet spell.

Um, especially in the United States, even though we've been actively involved in conflicts, they've all been on other land.