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wadorama

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Feeling something and wondering if I'm alone. I could write it off as aging if it wasn't happening so fast. My world is getting smaller. I am more certain of things than I used to be. I am less interested in things that I liked in the past. Things that used to seem natural seem foreign to me now. For example, I don't know why anyone would care what color car they have, or why they would bother to tend a flower garden. Reading that it sounds like depression to me, but that doesn't explain it all. Trying to take comfort that I'm at least concerned about it, but this corridor is narrowing and seems to have no doors. Anyone else?
 
Yes, I have acutally noticed that as well. It feels good, not bad at all. I feel part of all the branching out was NT garbage. Trying to be like an NT. Now I can go back to what I was befor.e
 
For me the corridor narrows in some areas but widens in others. I’ve become a minimalist and I don’t care about ‘my social circle’ or even family of origin anymore. But it has widen for the development of my own self.

I still have immense curiosity about this world (I love to travel) about other people’s minds (I love to read) and my own mind (I love to write). I don’t feel compelled to learn a new language, like in the past, but I still love words. I’m not obsessed about being eco friendly like in the past, but I still live minding the environment; I don’t dream about making money with my writing, but I still love to write. And even if I’m not willing to sleep on the floor, as I did when I was younger as a girl scout, I’m still willing to get out of my confort zone to get to know a new place.

Color of car? Tending a garden? I couldn’t care or less, but I understand, and respect, the fact that it is important for other people. I don’t think that has to do with the shrinking of your world, but with maturity and the inevitable changing of perspective that comes as we grow.

I think it’s good that the passage of time changes me, I wouldn’t want to be forever a 25-year-old. Like you, I am more certain of things than I used to be, and I like it.
 
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This is interesting and I'm glad I asked the question. I had not previously considered this change to be anything but dooming, but now I will. Thank you! =o)
 
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