They're deleting gmails that haven't been logged into for two years. Wonderful. There's invaluable letter exchanges somewhere in an account whose last login was in 2008. All gone.
Adult men are not supposed to feel "happy." It's abnormal. You should question what you're doing. You should feel the tinge of fear. It means you're pushing yourself.
The alternative is sitting around, waiting to die, like some fat fucking muppet.
Forbidden history: Cuban Missile Crisis began because Khrushchyov confused Cuba for the Kuban Region. Notice also how the crisis began over American nukes in Turkey, south of the Kuban
When Khrushchyov realised Cuba is on the other side of the world, he doubled down to save face
My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.