sometimes the sun comes through my window a certain way and the air smells like it did years ago, and i forget I'm not 13 anymore. and that the world is actually very big.
2026-06-07 20:52:21
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q 🚒🏳️🌈 :
one afternoon after i got my first digital camera i did a full photo shoot of my bedroom and my stuffed animals. at the time it was silly but now i can revisit the tinkerbell adorned walls and clouds painted on the ceiling. the house is now a rental, stripped of character, but that 8 year old’s room still exists in pictures
2026-06-08 11:27:08
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Octavia🦦🧸 :
How strange it is to be grieving life while we’re all actively living
2026-06-08 01:02:13
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alrescha lethe :
my biggest comfort was discovering that nostalgic memories include adulthood too. what a treasure it is to know that the present is worth pining for.
2026-07-04 19:20:21
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Jon Marc White :
I’m 35 and single and leave at least an hour from every family member. I see them all every once in a while, and I have a great friend group where I live, but I am so profoundly lonely most of the time. I miss being under the same roof as people I care about.
2026-06-10 15:01:37
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Michelle Zeynep ✨ Author :
My older brother told me that if he ever gets dementia and has to relive the same years over and over again, he hopes it’s our childhood, in our childhood home. I still cry about that sometimes.
2026-06-09 03:20:46
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naneesther :
I hate that feeling so much. I'm f-ing 26 that so young why can't I just enjoy it and not think about the past?
2026-06-09 16:55:26
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Ty :
real ones know the third slide is a taylor swift lyric
2026-08-20 05:10:26
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j :
Life goes by so fast and it’s hard not feeling like I’ve wasted my youth and lost so many years just struggling. I feel so young and so old and it just feels like it’s too late. I worry things will never truly get better no matter how hard I try.
2026-06-08 23:33:04
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Kt :
turning 21 in an hour 😀
2026-06-08 22:06:52
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e :
The “time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on” always gets me. Whoever wrote that is so clever.
2026-06-07 21:17:47
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kai :
can we not
2026-06-07 18:55:59
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KillerQueen :
I hope yall know you can still play and laugh with your friends even in adulthood ❤️. Humans always need to play, even as adults. I know it’s easier said than done but there is always another beautiful moment heading your way. You just have to trust that things always change, and good will find you again.
2026-07-02 22:01:06
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brooklyn ☆ :
I’m gonna pass out
2026-06-13 05:59:12
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bb :
there's a Japanese term for this. mono no aware. beautiful things never last, and knowing that makes them more beautiful
2026-06-08 19:05:04
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emmalee diaz :
Oh Im sick
2026-06-10 03:48:18
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⛤ 𝓇𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 ⛤ :
I am so glad I’ve always been the type of person who cherishes moment as they’re happening, I look back on things and think about how I let them wrap around my heart and curate me into the person I’ve become. Life is hard and long but also very sweet and short and beautiful. I’m grateful for the grief I have endured because it’s granted me such softness.
2026-06-07 23:48:21
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sydney park :
Taylor swift mentioned 🙏🙏🙏🩷🩷
2026-06-10 09:37:18
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isa :
oh i feel ill
2026-06-08 21:52:50
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Kar :
The lyrics of never grow up being here is special to me
2026-06-24 11:40:13
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Excelsior! 🍉 :
I saw my old house listed on zillow. when I grew up, most of the floors were tile, cold as I walked them in the winter mornings to huddle beside the header and warm up my clothes with my oma to go to school that day. the summers spent holding my face against the water cooler in the living room because my room was concrete all around with no insulation. the spring and fall when my yard flooded and I could use it as a lake for my toy model horses. the small bathroom with my mom's drawings on the wood paneling that accessed the shower's heating and pipes. the kitchen's beige marble and brown cupboards. but when I saw it, it was painted white picket along the fences and two poles that held up the roof's overhang in front of my once brown door now also white. the floors of all rooms covered in an ugly brown fake wood paneling. the biege marble tops turned black to "match" the floor and everything a boring white. it was shaped like home, but it was no longer mine.
2026-06-14 20:41:11
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amy :
i’m in shambles
2026-07-30 02:42:56
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LevelUpPixie | VTuber 🍄☘️ :
it's weird because these years were also the worst of my life. I was bullied endlessly, left feeling like I wasn't enough. Being at home was so difficult....and yet.
2026-06-24 13:24:03
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