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What has changed in your life over the last 10 years?
I am 24, so ten years ago I was 14. I mean… 14. Thinking about it is a bit impressive and it makes me feel old, but on the other side I’m happy. I remember how I was at the time: I was insecure and alone (for choice, coming from a little village I hadn’t so much choice about company, but still it wasn’t pleasant), I had just started high school and I had absolutely not idea about what I wanted to do with my life. So, it is limpid that I am a completely different person now: I live alone and work in a filed that I actually like. I am a lonely person but I am not alone, and even if I often have anxiety about my decisions or my future, I don’t feel so lost. Not anymore.
This evolution of mine is perfectly natural since ten years ago I was at the beginning of adolescence but it still makes a certain impression thinking about it. In a certain sense, the path I have travelled so far has helped me to blossom. I know my last sentence is pretty rhetorical but I am not able to find another way to describe the parallel sensations of being completely changed over the last ten years and having simply developed what I already had somewhere in me.
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As always @Lu_Corde , what a pleasure to read. (Yes, 24 … you are ancient 😜)
I want to just point out these things
> for choice = BY choice
I’m curious, do you mean this: I am a lonely person but I am not alone
or do you mean: I am a solitary person but I am not lonely ???
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Thank you for your feedback!
Yes, you caught the concept I wanted to express. In my mind lonely = solitary and alone and lonely aren’t synonyms. From your sentence I suppose that alone and lonely are synonyms indeed and solitary is the ‘positive’ side of lonely in a sense. Am I right?
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