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>A. I used to be a selfish consumer.
>How does this affect your current life?
It doesn't really. Although I do feel as if I wasted alot of my time doing stupid, pointless things. I certainly enjoyed some of my youth, but alot of times I went to the bar, sat around and felt like I was supposed to be enoying these things but couldn't articulate why it felt empty. I'm 28 so I feel like from 18-25 I pissed alot of my life away. Though maybe its normal to have these phases and without it and I wouldn't have the perspective I have now.

>B. I can no longer identify with that way of life
>How does this affect your life?
>C. Many of my old friends think engaging in anything beyond mindless consumption is gay
>How does this affect your life?

Well, again I feel like I wasted alot of time, and it certainly isn't a comfortable realizaton that alot of your friends aren't really much more than drinking buddies, and that you don't have much in common with them anymore. It almost feels like your abandoning who you are, and are ungrateful of your old relationships. Im being a bit dramatic, but there is a sense of guilt, or feeling as if you might think you're better than people. (I completely reject the idea that anyone is an NPC, but still, there is a nagging concern of becoming a snob)

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Literature has completely alienated me from my friends.During the pandemic I read more than I ever had. Lots of classic literature and very little…

Literature has completely alienated me from my friends.
During the pandemic I read more than I ever had. Lots of classic literature and very little…