Factory Reset:

[existence is constituted by non-existence]

Back pain and car repairs and deaths and funerals and shows and concerts and birthdays and events and chest pains and crappy sleep and hearing cats (metaphorically and sometimes literally) and a backordered social life and headaches and remembering ex’s birthdays and emergencies and vacation and catching up at work and emergencies and adjustments to financial investment infrastructures and stressing out my girlfriend because as a result of my own actions or decisions and doing the best I can to be levelheaded and remain adaptable to all of it; bearing down and enduring through tough times.

I just realized a new perception of my younger self a moment ago: