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Somebody said something interesting to me the other day.
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They said, Emma, you know, you kind of feel like a grandmother stuck in a 24-year-old's body.
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And when they said this, I took a pause.
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And immediately, a bunch of thoughts and feelings that had been bubbling below the surface came to the surface, and I had an epiphany.
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That my life is kind of boring.
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Considering my age, I'm 24 years old, my life is shockingly boring.
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When I think about what it means to be 24 years old based on stories from my elders, the media, et cetera, I think of chaos,
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mess, fun, mistakes, irresponsibility, everything that my life is not, basically.
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My life is really tame.
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I don't drink alcohol.
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I don't do drugs.
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I don't go to very many parties.
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I can't tell you the last time I went to a club, okay?
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I don't have a lot of sex.
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I'm like the relationship type.
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I go to bed at a reasonable hour.
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I eat healthy.
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I exercise.
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I have a routine that I stick to.
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I'm incredibly disciplined.
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I try to do the right thing.
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I think I'm pretty good at doing the right thing.
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My life is really tame.
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And as much as this is sort of a wonderful thing, like in theory, isn't it wonderful to live a life like this?
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I feel like a lot of young people actually are striving to live a life like this.
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And by some miracle, I have found myself in this position where I'm living a really beautiful,
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healthy life, but I found myself feeling really bored in it and understimulated looking at other 24 year olds and thinking,
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should I be living like that?
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Have I expedited my life in a way
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and ended up in a stage of adulthood that's more developed than where I should be?
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Am I wasting my youth being almost too responsible and living almost too healthy and too tame of a life too soon?
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It causes a sense of restlessness in me.
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And it bothers me because it doesn't make sense.
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And so today I thought I'd investigate this feeling.
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I thought we could investigate this feeling and maybe try to resolve it.
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I want to either reintroduce a level of chaos into my life for the sake of youth,
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because I'm only 24 once, you know what I mean?
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Or I want to find some level of satisfaction in the lifestyle that I've found myself living.
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Come up with some sort of plan.
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Now back to the episode.
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Let's start by analyzing how I developed my lifestyle, why I live the way that I do.
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Sort of grandmother-esque in the eyes of some and kind of in the eyes of me too.
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Although I don't think I live like a grandmother.
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Like I'm not full-on grandma.
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Like I don't think grandmothers are like popping a zin because yes, I am using the zin.
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I'm still addicted to nicotine.
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That's like the one naughty thing that I do.
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I also occasionally will, I don't know, watch too many YouTube shorts.
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That feels kind of naughty in young.
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You know, I don't think grandparents are watching YouTube shorts, although I wouldn't be surprised.
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But anyway, let's discuss how I got here.
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Starting out with my sobriety.
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Okay.
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I don't participate in alcohol or drugs.
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Why?
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Because I have a terrible physical reaction.
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This is not by choice.
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This is not me being like, oh, it's healthier to not participate in these things.
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I didn't wake up one day and read an article and then say, you know what?
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I'm done.
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No. With alcohol, I had to quit because I'm pretty sure I developed an allergy.
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Alcohol gives me hives and rashes on my face.
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No, actually, I don't know if it's hives.
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I get super red and like patchy red on my face when I drink sometimes.
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I also developed a nausea from drinking that I didn't used to get towards the end of my drinking career, if you will.
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Towards the end of my drinking, I'm having one glass of wine and getting so nauseous
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that I either feel like I'm going to throw up or I actually do throw up.
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And the combination of everything to me was a sign
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that clearly alcohol doesn't work with my body and it made me miserable.
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So I stopped drinking and I haven't drank alcohol since October of 2024.
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Wait, yeah.
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October of 2024.
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It's been over a year.
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And to be honest, I actually really like being sober.
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I'd be super anxious after a night of drinking.
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It made me feel gross physically, sluggish, just like shit.
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I don't know.
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I enjoy not drinking.
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It's a bummer because I used to enjoy a little buzz at a party or something.
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You know, I used to enjoy the experience of going to a wine bar with friends and getting to fully participate.
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I do miss it to an extent, but it wasn't worth it.
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And I will say it has forced me to learn to be social, sober, which I think is an incredible skill to have.
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So to me, it's okay.
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Drugs, marijuana, mushrooms, shit like that freaks me out.
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Marijuana, every time I consume marijuana, I have a panic attack.
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I had such a bad panic attack from edibles one time that it permanently changed my brain.
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I'm not kidding.
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My brain has never been the same.
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It made me dissociate so badly for the first time, by the way, I'd never dissociated before.
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So no weed for me.
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Mushrooms.
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I've done mushrooms a few times.
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I actually really enjoyed it, but I'm a little bit too anxious these days to take anything like that.
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I'm too anxious of having a bad trip
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and then being stuck in it to the point where it's not even worth participating.
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And then any other drugs are just dangerous and bad and bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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So it doesn't matter.
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I'm not, I wouldn't do those in any circumstance.
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So that's why I'm sober.
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These things just don't react well with me.
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Like, listen, if I wanted to reintroduce a little bit of chaos into my life, could I try drinking again?
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I guess.
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But I don't think, I don't think that's the root of the problem.
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I don't think being sober is the reason for my restlessness.
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Because honestly, when I look back at when I used to drink, it made me so anxious and unhappy.
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And that was at its best when I was having the best reaction to it, the least uncomfortable.
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It was like severe anxiety.
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And then at worst I was having, I would get a rash or be nauseous.
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You see what I'm saying?
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So I don't think that's the issue.
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Okay, next, I don't go out very much.
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I think there's a few reasons for this.
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Number one, my friends are older for the most part, between like five and maybe like five and nine years older than me.
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And the age difference is noticeable when it comes to going out
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because they've already gone through the going out phase of being in your 20s.
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They're now all in relationships,
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comfortable, satisfied, and they don't feel the pull to go out as much as maybe I do being single and 24.
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So if your friend group doesn't wanna go out, go to a club, doesn't wanna go to a party just for the sake of going to a party,
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doesn't want to go to a bar just for the sake
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of going to a bar you're not going to end up
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going you know you're going to do what the rest of
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the group wants to do i don't necessarily mind this
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because in reality i don't really even enjoy doing those things either
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but there are times where i'm like i'm itching to go
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out i need to go out i need to be social my friends are like emma we're tired
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we're tired no no that's not to say that i don't like
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that i never go out i do go out sometimes you You know, I'll go to a party every once in a while.
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I will go to a bar every once in a while, but less frequently than other 24 year olds that I know.
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But as I said, though, too, I don't wanna go to a club.
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It's too loud, it's not fun, unless you're under the influence of something, which I obviously am not.
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It's just not, it just doesn't work for me.
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If anything, I prefer something more social, like a party or a bar.
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But even that is sort of hit or miss.
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Like I'll find myself itching to go out, itching, itching, itching to go out.
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And then I'll go to a bar or go to a party or something.
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And I'll be like, ew, I'm bored.
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This is not that fun.
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People are, you know, being maybe less social than I expected.
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This is just less stimulating than I anticipated.
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Like, I could have skipped that.
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Moving on to my sort of boring love life.
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Okay.
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I am usually in a long-term relationship.
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When I'm not, like right now, I don't really like casual hookups and I don't love serial dating.
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If you don't know what serial dating is, serial dating is, according to the internet.
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A serial dater is someone who frequently dates many different people in succession, often moving quickly from one relationship to the next without much downtime,
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driven by a love for the thrill of new romance, avoiding commitment, fearing loneliness, or seeking validation and attention.
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They enjoy the early exciting stages of dating, but get bored easily or shy away from deep commitment.
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When I think of an exciting love life for someone in their early 20s, I think of having sex,
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making out with random people at the bar, going home with people and having sex.
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I think of going on a bunch of first dates that are like shitty and being like, God damn it.
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That one was bad.
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That one was bad too.
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Now I need to go on another date or, oh my God, I'm in love with this person just to then be like, ew, I hate them a week later.
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Like this sort of excitement drama, I've tried it a little, you know, I've tried the casual hookup thing and without fail, every single time I feel icky afterwards.
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I don't feel good.
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I feel gross.
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And I don't think that has anything to do with societal expectations or beliefs or feelings around casual sex.
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I actually don't think it has anything to do with external factors like that.
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I think it's strictly the experience of being romantic with somebody that I'm not close with.
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I don't necessarily feel 100% comfortable and safe with.
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That experience to me is icky.
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I'm attracted to safety as much as I'd love to be like having random sex and stuff.
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Because there is something satisfying about that when you're single.
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It's sort of a, I don't know, it makes you feel in control of, how do I put this?
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Having casual sex is a reminder that you're attractive, that people want to be with you, that they're attracted to you,
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which is reassuring in a moment of singlehood.
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I absolutely have moments when I'm single, experiencing it right now, where I'm like, does mama still got it or what?
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Like, does anyone like me?
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Or it would be nice if someone would be really interested in me,
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like would be interested me sexually because I'm a little nervous that people don't, that no one likes me.
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Do you know what I'm saying?
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And this is just the truth of it, the reality of it.
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If I were to do that, it would be, I think for the wrong reasons.
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And that's not the case for everybody, but the case for me.
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And so that's why I don't have casual sex.
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It sounds like it would be fun, but every time I've done it, it has not been fun.
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Could I potentially get out there and experiment and try it again.
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I could, I could, but I'm at the risk of not honoring my past experiences
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in potentially putting myself in a situation where I'm deeply uncomfortable at my own hand.
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And why would I, it's like, so yeah, I could do that.
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But then it's like, that actually seems like I'm, I'm actively making a choice to ignore what I know about myself.
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And that seems self-destructive.
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Like it just doesn't seem smart.
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In addition to not enjoying casual sex, I also don't like serial dating.
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The idea of going on a bunch of first dates
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and getting to the honeymoon phase with a bunch of different people
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and then cutting it off and then starting something new and fresh again, even though it's a bit toxic, perhaps it sounds fun, right?
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It sounds fun.
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It sounds exciting.
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But for whatever reason, I don't like the beginning stages in a relationship.
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I don't like the honeymoon phase.
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I like the part of the relationship when we're farting, we're super close.
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I don't feel like I have to read into what someone's saying.
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We can just be completely open because we've made a commitment to one another.
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And a lot of the guesswork is taken out when that commitment is made.
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I prefer the later stages in a relationship if anything.
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The beginning is quite stressful for me.
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I tend to overthink it or not even overthink it, but I tend to sort of obsess over it in a way because that's what's fun about it.
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It's a distraction.
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It's almost drug-like in the beginning when you're so excited and you have such a big crush, it's all consuming.
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And to some that's an escape and that's fun and that's exciting.
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To me, that's exhausting and stressful and frightening.
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And I would rather just skip ahead to being in a committed relationship and being extremely comfortable together, which is why I don't serial date.
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I have never even attempted serial dating.
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I have literally only ever gone on dates with guys I'm dating already, like that are my boyfriend.
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I usually know when I wanna date somebody before we've even gone on a date
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because either they're a mutual friend or we've started talking via text message.
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And by the time we're like going on a date, we're already kind of dating.
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Does that make sense?
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And I've never even gotten into that stage with somebody who I haven't ended up dating long term.
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I don't go on random dates.
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The idea of serial dating exhausts me.
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It seems like an emotional roller coaster, you know, getting into the honeymoon phase with somebody.
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And then once that starts to dwindle, leaving it and moving on to the next or whatever.
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or just going on a bunch of dates and having sort of a roster of like, these are all the guys I'm casually dating right now.
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Like that experience, though it seems more stimulating and interesting, also seems exhausting and it actually is sort of unappealing to me.
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But as much as it is unappealing to me, I look at other people my age doing that and I, again, kind of envy it.
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It seems like it would be so fun and exciting to date that way but also I think deep down, I know the reality wouldn't work for me.
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I'm not going to start having random sex and I'm not going to start building my dating roster of like 20 guys.
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20 would be a lot.
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I don't even, I don't even think there's 20 guys in this.
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I don't know that, that, yeah, that's not that, that's let's say five guys, burgers and fries.
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Okay, fine.
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Let's say six guys.
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Moving on, I live a very healthy lifestyle, okay?
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I exercise, I go on my morning walks, I go to my hot yoga,
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I eat nutritious foods, things such as lentils,
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vegetables, and fruits, and proteins.
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I tend to cook for myself.
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I don't order food delivery very often.
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I live a very healthy lifestyle, which not in a toxic way though, I don't think at this point in my life,
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it's not like I don't eat dessert ever.
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It's not like I'm out at a restaurant with my friends and I'm like, no, no, no, I'm healthy.
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So I'm not going to have a bite of the pecan pie.
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That's not accurate.
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I of course will eat the pecan pie.
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In fact, I'll probably eat more of it than anyone else because I love a dessert.
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But day to day, I'm going to my workouts, I'm going on my walks and I'm eating nutritiously and healthily.
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I don't know, in a weird way, when I think of being in your early 20s, I think of eating an entire bag of Cheez-Its for dinner, staying up too late.
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I imagine laying in bed all day sometimes.
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I imagine all these different things because when you're young, you can get away with it and you don't feel as bad.
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You don't feel the repercussions as severely when you're young.
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You can get away with saying, fuck it, I'm not gonna exercise for two months, fuck it.
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I'm not gonna eat any vegetables for two months.
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You can do that.
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And yet I very early in my life discovered that I feel so much better when I live a very healthy life.
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That also includes, you know, even going to bed early or not even necessarily early, but at a responsible hour and waking up at a responsible hour.
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There was a time I would say when I was a teenager where I did all the things I'm describing, you know, I'd eat an entire bag of cheese.
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That's for dinner and have a terrible stomachache from it.
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I would go to bed at four in the morning.
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I wouldn't exercise for months on end.
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And you don't want to know what I felt like shit.
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I felt fucking terrible.
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I felt physically terrible, but also mentally terrible.
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I felt horrible.
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So it's very odd once again, that I'm questioning, like I'm like feeling,
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um, I'm feeling restless about a lifestyle that does actually make me feel physically good.
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If I were to drop my healthy habits for the sake of chaos, which sounds ridiculous, but again,
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we're having a bizarre sort of conversation here because I'm experiencing a feeling that's sort of bizarre and confusing
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and doesn't really make any sense.
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If I were to drop all of my healthy habits
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and regress technically and go back and start eating foods that aren't nutritious and sleeping bad hours and not exercising,
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I would hate my life.
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My quality of life would be worse.
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That's not gonna work.
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So I don't know.
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Now back to the episode.
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Next, I stick to a very consistent routine.
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Like my life for the most part is consistent and pretty mundane.
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Like it rarely deviates from routine.
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same thing every single day, which I think is pretty common for most people of all ages.
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But my particular routine feels very, it feels a bit, it does feel a little bit grandma coded.
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The spark notes of my daily routine is wake up early, make my coffee.
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Recently, I've been journaling, go on a walk, do chores, work, take a break from working, exercise, come home, get back to work, cook dinner.
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Oh, probably earlier in the day I cooked something for breakfast and lunch, do more chores, feed my cats.
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I also fed my cats earlier in the day too.
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Talk to my loved ones on the phone, go to bed, repeat.
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Now, let me ask myself, what do I think most 24-year-olds are doing on a day-to-day basis?
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Probably the same thing.
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But when I imagine the lifestyle of others in their early 20s, I think of people going out to dinners on weeknights going to parties on weeknights,
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waking up late on accident.
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I don't know.
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Like it just a little bit more, ah, je ne sais quoi, or not even je ne sais quoi, but like a little bit more chaos.
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You know what I'm saying?
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My, it's like so chill my life.
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It's so relaxed.
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It's like, it's so consistent and so simple and so healthy.
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But I think probably most people, like that's probably most people's routine.
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So I don't know why I'm sort of, it seems that what I'm doing is as I'm describing all of this it seems
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that I'm doing two things number one I'm creating a false
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version of what a normal 24 year old's life looks like a romanticized version a dramaticized version
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and I'm comparing my life to that and
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that comparison is making me feel restless what I'm comparing my life to is something
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that is ultimately not real and and is seems more fun
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and more loose and more exciting and maybe even happier because I'm romanticizing it a little bit.
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And as they say, the grass is always greener.
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It's almost like I'm looking at what I think other 24 year olds are doing.
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And I'm like, wait, that looks more fun.
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I'm all buttoned up over here.
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I'm being responsible.
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And it feels so boring.
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The grass is always greener.
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It seems that's the first thing that's going on here.
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The other thing that seems to be going on here is that I think in order to live my life this way, I have to be very disciplined.
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And I think the level of discipline
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that it takes to live my life the way that I do is sort of fatiguing for me in a way.
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Those things don't necessarily come naturally.
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And the lifestyle itself is a bit under stimulating for me.
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And so I find myself between sort of a rock and a hard place here where I'm like, okay, I can't go backwards.
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I know better, you know, after analyzing my lifestyle, I don't see any areas where I could in good faith regress.
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Like, why would I regress?
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Technically, it's like I've actually arrived at a really good place here and I to go backwards is stupid.
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It's actually stupid, but I'm feeling restless.
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So what is that restlessness?
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And it seems that the restlessness is stemming from a combination of comparison
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and also there being a lack of stimulation in my life.
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My disciplined, routine, healthy life is not stimulating enough for me.
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So how do I address these issues?
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Let's brainstorm together.
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What should I do?
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What should I do?
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To start, I think I need to work on being mindful about this.
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I think I need to integrate a bit of mindfulness
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when I find myself comparing my life to other fictional 24 year olds, I need a reality check, a self-inflicted reality check.
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I think number one, I need to stop romanticizing things I know don't work for me.
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Just because the fictional 24 year old in my head
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that I'm comparing myself to has a bunch of fun with a roster of six people that they're dating at once.
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And they went to bed at five in the morning because they were clubbing all night.
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I need to remind myself why I don't do those things.
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I could if I wanted to.
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Why don't I do them?
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Because I know better, because I know that it doesn't work for me, because I know it actually makes me miserable.
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So I need to remind myself
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that I'm comparing myself to a fictional 24-year-old for one and also remind myself why I don't do those things.
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Remind myself of the times when I have done those things
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and how I felt instead of just subconsciously sort of gnawing on this fictional 24-year-old character in my head.
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I need to bring that to the forefront of my head
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and address it head on and remember the truth of the situation.
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Next, I need to stay in my own lane.
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It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing.
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I need to stay in my own lane and focus on my own life.
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I need to put my energy towards my life
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and ignore what other people are doing or what other people are saying about what I'm doing.
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It doesn't matter.
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I need to put my head down and stay in my lane.
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When I catch myself comparing my life to a fictional 24-year-old or even a real 24-year-old, because that actually does happen sometimes too.
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I would say most of the time I'm comparing myself to
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sort of this idea of what I think I should be doing at my age, but sometimes it is an actual real person.
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I need to focus on me.
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Everybody's on their own journey.
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I know that.
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I need to remind myself of that when I find myself struggling with this.
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And lastly, I think I need to focus on gratitude
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for how good my lifestyle makes me feel
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because I haven't always felt this good and I rarely take time to be grateful for how good I feel.
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I put a lot of effort into feeling good.
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I should take him in every once in a
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while to acknowledge how good I feel compared to how bad I used to feel
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when I was younger and I hadn't implemented the habits that I've implemented.
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Attempting to turn my restlessness into gratitude might be the move.
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Moving on from mindfulness, I've also tried to think about some activities
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that I could integrate into my life that maybe would help with this feeling of restlessness.
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Number one, cooking meals from scratch.
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I actually already started doing this.
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It was one of my New Year's resolutions.
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I want to cook things really from scratch, like not just like, oh, you know, I got like a loaf of bread from the store
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and then now I'm I wanna make avocado toast on that bread that I bought from the store.
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I wanna start making my own bread.
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Or like, you know, instead of going and getting a can of soup from the grocery store, I wanna make my own soup.
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I've really gotten into it and I've really loved it.
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Do I think that it's solved my feelings of restlessness?
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No, but it's not completely, but it has helped.
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So I wanna continue doing that and continue cooking things from scratch because it's so immersive.
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You're so immersed in the experience and there's such a wonderful reward, yummy food.
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I think the distraction and the excitement of that, at least for me, has been helpful.
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So I'm going to continue doing that and continue to make more
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and more challenging recipes because I think the challenge is what makes it riveting.
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Another thing I want to start doing, hosting social gatherings, either at my house or out somewhere.
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I think it is really important for me to be social.
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And I've found that the more social that I'm being, the less restless I feel.
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But I will say that, you know, the traditional methods of socializing seemingly don't work for me, right?
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Like, I don't love going out to the club.
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I don't love going out even to a bar or a party.
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So perhaps I could put together some sort of social gathering
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that appeals to me and will probably appeal to others whether that's like, you know, a weekend trip with a group of friends
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or a dinner party at my house or a dinner party at a restaurant or a game night.
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I need to host more gatherings that are interesting to me.
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I can't rely on other people to create these experiences for me.
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If I want these experiences more frequently in my life, I need to put the effort in
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and I need to actually create these experiences instead of waiting for these things to pop up a few times a year?
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Why don't I create them?
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And last but not least, try to become friends with more boys to help with my dating craving.
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Obviously, I feel like my love life is very boring and under stimulating.
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Well, why don't I become friends with more boys and develop crushes on them?
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That seems like the perfect happy medium.
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And that's something I've wanted to do anyway, but it's just hard.
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But perhaps I could become friends with more boys through hosting social gatherings.
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I can say, bring whoever you want to my social gathering.
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And who knows, some cute boys might come and then I could become friends with them.
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And then I could have crushes on them.
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And then, you know, I'm not going to serial date them.
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I'm just going to be friends.
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And then when I really like one of them, eventually I'll confess my love or I will wait until they confess their love to me
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because I am too scared usually to make the first move.
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Okay.
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So those are some ideas of activities that could help with my restlessness.
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Last but not least, I think I could benefit from a bit more spontaneity.
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I think there's a way to be spontaneous without regressing in reintroducing bad habits, right?
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Spontaneity, I think could help bring some excitement into my life.
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It's excitement without chaos.
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A few, ways I could be spontaneous.
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Number one, saying yes to every opportunity to travel or maybe not every opportunity to travel, but there are times when I'm so in the minutia of my routine.
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I'm like, I don't want to travel right now.
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So an opportunity to travel might come up
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and I might pass on it because I am
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so in the flow of my routine that I don't want to do it.
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I think travel is a great opportunity to be spontaneous to sort of shake up your reality a little bit.
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So if like all my friends are like, hey, we're doing a little weekend trip to here.
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You know what?
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Fuck it.
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I'll cancel some responsibilities that I had that weekend to go
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and do that because I think that that's really important to me.
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That's that's what I'm talking about.
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Now, is that going to come up on a monthly basis even?
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Probably not.
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But as often as these types of things come up, I should try to take those opportunities.
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Also, a less extreme version and probably a more frequent opportunity, saying yes to spontaneous plans with friends.
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Again, as I said with the travel, I will sometimes be like, ah, you know, like I had plans to work this weekend
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because I didn't get as much done this week as I wanted to and nobody made any plans with me this weekend, so I'm going to work this weekend.
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And then if spontaneous plans were to come up that weekend, I'd be like, oh no, I can't.
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so I'd skip out on the fun activity less of
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that more saying yes
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because ultimately those memories are more important you know you listen there are times
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when you got to get done what you got to get done
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but clearly I'm experiencing an extreme where it's like I don't
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have enough spontaneity in my life you know I could use a little bit more than I have
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so I'm gonna attempt to say yes to more spontaneous plans with friends
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and maybe even create more spontaneous plans with friends you know, if I'm bored on a Saturday afternoon, instead of laying around or whatever,
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or filling that time with responsibilities, why not call my friends up and say, should we just go to Disneyland tonight randomly?
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Like shit like that.
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I don't know.
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Another idea would be to make an effort to break routine by trying a new grocery store, a new coffee shop, a new workout class, etc. I've talked about this before,
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because occasionally I will do this.
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And without fail, every single time.
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It is such a grounding experience that forces me to be present.
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I'm such a creature of habit that anytime I change one little thing in my routine,
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it really like shocks my brain out of autopilot and I'm forced to be present in such a beautiful way.
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Every once in a while, it's really nice to sort of shake up the minute details in routine.
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I think I could do that a little bit more often.
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And I think when I find myself feeling restless, that might be a time to try something new
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or even potentially like changing up my work week maybe instead of taking saturday
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and sunday off one week i take monday
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and tuesday off minute little tweaks in routine can really kind
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of energize you in a weird way i don't know
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so i need to i need to integrate a little bit more of
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that into my life perhaps here's the thing i don't really
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know what's going on the reason why i wanted to talk about it is
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because I feel like people might look at my life and my lifestyle and think, wow, you know, she has her shit together.
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She lives such a healthy, responsible lifestyle.
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You know, I don't feel like my life is like that.
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I feel like I need more discipline
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or I feel like I need to be more responsible
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or I feel like I need to focus more on my health and well-being.
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I feel like people might look at my life and be like
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and compare and feel bad and I wanted to discuss this
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because I wanted to show you
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that the grass is always greener you can really have your shit together
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and still and there and just because of how the world works
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because of how human brains work we'll still find something to
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to whine about do you know what I'm saying I don't know.
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And I think it's just proof that there's always more work to do.
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You like, there's no such thing as arriving.
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You're never going to exist in a perfect version of your life.
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There's always going to be work to do.
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And it's shocking to me that I'm probably living the healthiest,
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most fulfilling version of my life I ever have in my life.
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And I'm, and I'm feeling restless within minute how hilarious is
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that but hopefully in like six months from now I can come back to you
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and tell you how I resolved the feeling of restlessness I
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mean I think analyzing it to this extent has helped me a lot
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and I have somewhat of a plan moving forward some things to try
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but I'll keep you updated the intent of this episode was
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not to answer questions it was more to just explore
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so we'll see give me a few months and maybe I'll get back to you that's it for this
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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If you did this 24 year old grandma posts new episodes of anything goes every Thursday
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If you want to watch video that's on YouTube
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and Spotify Listen anywhere else you get podcasts on social media
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at anything goes I'm on the internet at Emma Chamberlain
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and my coffee company is Chamberlain coffee That's all for today and i'll talk to you in a week from now.
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I love you all I appreciate you all and i'm gonna go do some grandma shit like bird watching and like
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crocheting and making cookies for my grandkids.
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That's what I'm going to go do.
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So I'll talk to you later.
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I actually don't do any of that stuff except for making, well, I do love birds and I do love watching them, but I don't have binoculars and I don't have grandkids, but I do like cooking and baking.
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So I have been doing that lately.
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So I guess I have been doing that too.
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And I don't crochet.
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That is a step too far.
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I'm not ready to crochet yet.
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I have the second half of my life to crochet.
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So we're waiting on that for as long as possible.
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Okay.
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Anyway, I love you all.
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I appreciate you all.
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Thank you for listening.
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Talk to you soon.
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Talk to you next week.
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Love you and bye.
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I just said all of that, I think twice.
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So anyway, okay.
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Love you.
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Bye.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questo video contiene 539 frasi e 6403 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 35:39. Chi parla va veloce, circa 180 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 80% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| routine sostantivo | /ɹuˈtin/ | routine, tran tran |
| lifestyle sostantivo | /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ | stile di vita |
| serial aggettivo | /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/ | seriale |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | annoiare, tediare |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| spontaneous aggettivo | /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/ | spontaneo |
| chaos sostantivo | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | caos |
| casual aggettivo | /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/ | occasionale |
| restless aggettivo | /ˈɹɛstlɪs/ | instancabile |
| remind verbo | /ɹəˈmaɪnd/ | ricordare |
| habit sostantivo | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | abitudine, consuetudine |
| discipline sostantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| fictional aggettivo | /ˈfɪkʃənəl/ | immaginario, fittizio |
| stimulate verbo | /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/ | stimolare |
| necessarily avverbio | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | necessariamente, a tutti i costi |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori | |
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere | |
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | svegliarsi |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire | |
| get away with verbo | farla franca, cavarsela | |
| shake up verbo | stressare | |
| come up with verbo | ideare, escogitare | |
| get up to verbo | commettere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero | used to get · used to enjoy · used to drink |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | I've been journaling · have been doing |
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if you don't have yours yet, you'll find |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have found · Have I expedited · I've found |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 279 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, I've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: gathering /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, leather /ˈlɛðɚ/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: casual /ˈkæʒ(u)əl/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, stash /stæʃ/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: spontaneous /spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, marijuana /ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come routine, lifestyle, serial.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.