Comment by 👻 darkghost

The diary entry "What I missed in life" feels like it really hit home here. I'm not as far in my years but I'm far enough in the journey to be missing so much. Having young children and holding down a full time job leaves precious little time for the trivialities of life, but I miss the big stuff too. I'm detached from popular culture since canceling cable TV, moving to the bottom of a hill, while staying away from mainstream social media. I don't have face-to-face contact outside the home except at work, the kinds of fungible relationships that exist by proximity. I can see the hallmarks of a life shaping into a life lived regretfully as each samey day slips away unnoticed and unappreciated.

Jan 05 · 1 year ago

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I'm not really feeling much regret. I lived each day as it came, and pretty much got to do whatever I wanted to do. As a teen I had a plan for what I wanted to do in life, but that fell apart before I reached my 24th birthday. Ever since then I moved from one job to another, one house to another, taking whatever path seemed the best option at the moment. Maintained good relationships with the wife and kids and extended family throughout the journey. Never got rich and famous but I am still living happily ever after.

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Digital Hoarder — I've been buying personal computers since the mid-1980s. Most of the time each new system included much more storage than the one it replaced. To make things easy I usually just copied the entire contents of the old machine's drive(s) to a backup folder or partition on the new machine -- all my personal data of course, but also the entire operating system including its caches and temporary files -- everything! Sometimes I just pulled the hard drive from the old machine and...