to barely experience anything during the fleeting period of life before you inevitably deconstruct experience itself. & hypothetically there might still be some part of you who wishes morosely that they could have had more experiences while experience still mattered. but even this hypothetical part of you is absenr, because you know that even if many things had happened back then you would still now be in a present where those things only felt like past illusions that had now fallen away. even if that past version of yourself had been more nourished, that past version would still be a memory. you cannot pine for something that you no longer care about, not even in the retrospective frame of a time when you did care about it. & yet there still might be some more primordial part of you that resists being explained in these terms & is still crying

















