#limited perception

… perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.

She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what feeling old really means—not just a physical deterioration, but an interpersonal. A growing silence caused by the people you most love, who have shaped you and defined your world, going on ahead into whatever comes after.

They aren’t completely clueless about it as they would have to blend into it and interact with it to some extent and they do have some knowledge of the important people outside of it like in the wave arc where kakashi knew about gatou.

I imagine they also have their own pop culture and all that since iirc the only novels we see them read are jiraya’s novels which are written by a ninja, their clothing trends are obviously largely related to their occupation, ... so they really do live in their own world and non of the ones we see seem to have any interest in expanding that world.