your future self belongs to whoever refuses to quit first

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Another thing I miss about the Pacific Northwest.... The trees in my yard in Bellevue, Washington. That's my tree guy climbing one of my firs. At about 110 feet tall (100 after he topped a ten-foot section in danger of falling off the top), that wasn't even the tallest tree on the property.

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As always, I leave myself highly detailed and deeply supportive editorial notes.

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And—all snark and vinegar aside, this rhetoric is one of the big reasons we all have this constant “I need an adultier adult” imposter syndrome. Because we don’t recognize that the stuff we carried as children doesn’t vanish. There’s no level up announcement. But we think we’re missing something.

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Because nobody cops to the fact that grandma dealt with the insecurity with Valium and grandpa was still allowed the benefits of play by going bowling with his equally juvenile bros. They weren’t adultier than we are. Just noisy and unable to admit to the “flaws”.

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