@daijapan: i too am entering midlife. I feel that the solution to the so-called mid-life crisis depends on the reconstruction of the “who I am” narrative. I believe that it is the time of the young to be angry at messes and it is the time of the middle-aged to collect messes and tell stories. I look forward to seeing what the landscape will look like further down the road.
Personally, I don’t think I resented the mess even as a young man, but…
- It’s hard to argue with someone who says, “That’s because I was blessed with a mess.”
- I’m not sure myself when the thought “I don’t care what I can’t control.” took hold of me.
- I think I understood it in a clearly verbalized way because I heard Tasuku Ukai say
I sympathize with “collecting messes stories.” - About Self-Introduction - I believe that’s how self-introductions are supposed to be formed. - When you pull the gacha, sometimes you get an unusual shape. - Put them together to make a story. - I have a favorite scene. - Sometimes the people who see it are amused. - The mess itself is just a small piece of plastic with some paint on it, not worth much. - I don’t feel the medal is worth it. - Ah, so “what comes out of the gacha” is something you can’t control, and “what kind of scene you create with the gacha you have” is something you can control.
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