Post #1885406

I’ve been practicing being grateful for all the things that have vanished from my life due to the inexorable passage of time, without succumbing to grief and mourning for the loss. I asked the Nostalgia Nerd once if #retrocomputing ever made him sad. He said it didn’t, and I couldn’t fathom how that was possible. I looked at these machines of my youth and wept for the optimism and hope for the world I had back then, before everything went to shit. That still happens to me from time to time, but I’m working hard on seeing it not as a loss, but as an experience in itself, decoupled from shattered expectations and phantom dreams. Something that can be enjoyed for what it was (and is), not lamented for what it was “supposed to be”.