• thejml@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    You start to realize there’s only a finite amount of time left and start having to choose what you’re going to start based on what you’ll be able to finish and what you could have spent your finite time on instead of.

    Also loved ones and close friends passing away is hard, but the state before that… getting ill and their health going downhill… no longer able to be the person you grew up with. It’s mentally rough.

    Finally, your body no longer being able to cash the check your mind wants to write.

    • Lemmayng@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      the state before that… getting ill and their health going downhill… no longer able to be the person you grew up with. It’s mentally rough.

      Having to be the primary caretaker for my dad before he passed while trying and failing to reconcile with the emotional abuse and detachment from my childhood still fucks me up to this day.