I have a lot of nostalgia for the heyday of Livejournal, how many people I met and struck up friendships with, as well as how constant my creative energy felt when I was a teenager and in my early 20s.
Like you, I think a lot of it is really more that I do miss *who I was* at that time... As an adult, working full time, I just don't have the energy and time to spend hours on the things I used to. It's a pretty perpetual theme on my own journal: I want to find opportunities to interact more with communities and be more social and connected online and in fandom... but I also want to write more... but I'm not reading nearly as much as I want... but I also haven't really gotten to play a video game in a long while... but I also want to do other creative things... and spend more time on home projects... but I want to watch some of the series and movies that do have active fandom community and that I think I would enjoy, but that's such a big time commitment...
So lol, I definitely empathize! I don't have a good answer, but it's hard to know there's so much you want to do, and just not enough time in the day to do it.
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I have a lot of nostalgia for the heyday of Livejournal, how many people I met and struck up friendships with, as well as how constant my creative energy felt when I was a teenager and in my early 20s.
Like you, I think a lot of it is really more that I do miss *who I was* at that time... As an adult, working full time, I just don't have the energy and time to spend hours on the things I used to. It's a pretty perpetual theme on my own journal: I want to find opportunities to interact more with communities and be more social and connected online and in fandom... but I also want to write more... but I'm not reading nearly as much as I want... but I also haven't really gotten to play a video game in a long while... but I also want to do other creative things... and spend more time on home projects... but I want to watch some of the series and movies that do have active fandom community and that I think I would enjoy, but that's such a big time commitment...
So lol, I definitely empathize! I don't have a good answer, but it's hard to know there's so much you want to do, and just not enough time in the day to do it.