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I think about it all the time

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In a conversation with a stranger on a flight from NYC back to San Diego (where I was interning), we talked about the choices we consciously made in our work-life balance (aka: mostly the lack thereof). Among many things, he mentioned a consistent feeling that time was passing fast. Of course, time passes fast. (…when you’re having fun? when you’re working on what you love…?) But, I had just been talking to a friend in SF about feeling like “time is running out”, which I know is completely irrational, we’re twenty. And yet, here’s this stranger, somewhat older than me and disconnected from tech culture entirely, saying the same thing. Is everyone beginning to feel this way? There was this period in SF during my gap when I kept ending up in conversations where I’d explain what I was working on and feel myself shrink. Not because what I was doing was bad — it wasn’t, whatever ‘bad’ means — but because of how the words landed. People around me seemed to be doing so much — creating these b

I think about it all the time I think about it all the time Oct 11, 2025 “I’m so scared to run out of time.” Me and George sit down and try to plan for our future But there’s so much guilt involved when we stop working ‘Cause you’re not supposed to stop when things start working, no […] I found love, baby But I was scared to run out of time […] So, we had a conversation on the way home, “Should I stop my birth control? ‘Cause my career still feels small In the existential scheme of it all.” — i think about it all the time ft. bon iver, by charli xcx Part 1: Is time running out? In a conversati

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