i always used to stress out about acquiring limited edition vinyl releases, but everything changed when i realized that there will always be something to miss out on. not just with new LPs, but with anything in life. there's always something new around the corner. it never ends. my relationship with record-collecting has become much more freeing and enjoyable, now that i've embraced the inevitability of missing out. you can miss out on things and it's going to be okay ! pretty awesome if you ask me
time will pass anyways.
soon we will be old and we will regret being in such a hurry in our daily lives. of course I understand (and identify with) that sometimes we are lost and some days are worse, some months are difficult.
but there is still time. there is no perfect life to be achieved. it is just life. and it ends. so enjoy it
It's so easy to overlook what is currently in your life especially if you are so used to it. Routine, patterns, and familiarity make things feel so boring yet it provides structure to what would be chaos without. But this structure sometimes overshadows what you have. I have worked the same job most of my adult life, but throughout this time I have moved locations twice. I left the last two places because I felt I outgrew them and I wasn't getting what I needed out of it. I have a lot of trouble adapting to change and the biggest reason is because the good things I had at these times were brought back to my attention because they were no longer in my routine. I know that each time theres a dramatic change in my life, it's more often than not for the better, but I can still miss things from times that were not exactly optimal for me. I wear a ring at all times that says "this too shall pass", this has always been a constant reminder to me that the good, the bad, and the inbetween will never be permanent. Love what you have while yo have it.
my new thing is legit I just have to only look at what’s THERE not what’s lacking. Like theres a bajillion things I don’t have but each one is ultimately so random and the stuff I have is so wonderful. if I think about how I don’t have X what’s to stop me from thinking about how I don’t have Y??? at least the stuff I have is finite and proven which makes it easier to appreciate
we're all going to die one day. better to die with used notebooks than empty ones. they don't need to look pretty. as long as you're writing, you're doing something right.