I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.
My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.
A lot has transpired in my life.
I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.
When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.
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