You kept treating both like they would always be there, like later was guaranteed; you kept saying later, you used to talk about realizing and you had time, and now you're standing in the future knowing you had the potential
@Manhattva A farmer who buys new hens from the market while letting his current flock starve in neglected, rotting coops is just compounding his failure. Bringing in fresh stock without fixing the underlying rot only guarantees that the new arrivals meet the same slow decline