Over the next few years you are going to have to fight with everything you’ve got to retain your humanity. They will try to convince you to give up connecting with each other, to give up truly being alive. It will be the most important fight of your whole life
People on here will ask “Is it too late to start over at 28?” and everyone will reply “Yikes. Hate to break it to you gramps but it was over for you 10 years ago.” Meanwhile my 63 year old neighbor is taking the bar exam because he has a list of pharma companies he plans to sue
Has been discussed to death but “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothing left” is an unbelievable opening line
a lot has been talked about Nolan's Odysseus as a "regretful soldier" while not enough time has spent looking at him as a man who brought men (mostly boys) to war for a decade, and realized he'd turned them into monsters he no longer was sure he wanted to bring back to Ithaca.
i love how “easy mode” in this scenario is the women having jobs and responsibilities and making their own money, not the lazy men who are leeching off their parents