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    999 months ago

    Kids are going to be weird and use their imagination. They’ll pretend to be an NFL player breaking tackles as they run through a crowded school hallway. They’ll pretend to be Optimus Prime and pretend to transform into a truck. Or they’ll pretend to be iron man blasting bad guys with their lazer palms.

    The issue is when your friends have aged out of that behavior and you think it’s still cool to Naruto run up to them all the time.

    • @[email protected]
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      399 months ago

      I remember when I was a kid I used to pretend the weirdest stuff. Once I was sitting on a picnic table behind the school and I pretended I was loved and safe.

      I did stop pretending like that pretty early though because I was afraid of being seen as weird.

      • Maeve
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        199 months ago

        Can you feel me hugging you in our hearts?

      • Maeve
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        99 months ago

        Me too soul family. If we pretend together enough, we’ll jump timelines. Want to?

          • Maeve
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            09 months ago

            You see me move back and forth between both…

            I’ve almost found a balance!

            It’s hard to keep it lighter than a feather; sometimes it’s heavier than lead; coming round to the understanding that’s also on me. (Believe it or not, some heart chakra with string drum helped me out of that rut while i slept. I didn’t purposely find it, it just was on after the video i fell asleep to. It’s no excuse not to do grief work though. And i’m doing that too.)

            I’m glad to play and learn together.

    • Maeve
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      219 months ago

      Maybe the ones who aged out are the issue.

        • @[email protected]
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          429 months ago

          At 16 you should be able to differentiate when it’s the time and place for it. Theater, role playing games, and plenty of other outlets exist for it as an adolescent and adult because it is healthy and fun to continue doing into adulthood.

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            -59 months ago

            Exactly. Sad to see that I’m downvoted because people can’t understand that there’s a time and place to let the mind work.

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              239 months ago

              It’s probably because your comment leads everyone to believe that you think that the time and place are “never” and “nowhere”

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                -109 months ago

                Interesting how the tables turn isn’t it? Not putting thought into a comment and instantly making an assumption rather than thinking about it or even, and I know this is radical nowadays, asking somebody to expand

        • Maeve
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          269 months ago

          Pretend is where most great ideas are birthed. I’m sorry this timeline sucks so bad it sucked that out of you. But yeah, time and place, etc to quality that.

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            -39 months ago

            There’s an obvious difference between thinking and Naruto running down a hall wearing a ninja headband and doing handsigns for a jutsu.

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          59 months ago

          Why not? I’m fucking 40 and while I wouldn’t say all the time, I do it any time I think I can get away with it generating humour to boot. It works cuz THAT’S my excuse. Loki backs me up nearly every single time. How do you think I survived a helmet-less head injury after getting hit by a car on my bike? Even my Nuersurgeon expected nothing and 3 mo this later was exponentially MORE shocked I woke up at all let alone able to speak even if back then I couldn’t finish an entire sentance.

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              -19 months ago

              It’s like The Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann. Totally a fantasy until you realize what level truth is being given with no interest or need for facts. Such being unrelated to what is given.

              And no, I am not a Changeling. I’m a CoX. Not that you’ll ever catch those references. It’s not necessary.

          • Maeve
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            09 months ago

            I’ that makes me so happy. To the devil with the excuse. I felt like it also works; but it’s good to have an excuse when the nails start coming out of pockets, unless you bliss right up over everyone who’s got the nails and hammer.

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              -19 months ago

              My excuse was was just a step in the path that improved my life. For as horrible as it occured, everything else got exponentially fantastically luckier than that one moment was unlucky. I could list a dozen amazing things that came together right therein after. The guy stuck around, had insurance, got me an ambulence…many many more things just lined up to improve my life right therein after.

              • Maeve
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                09 months ago

                Hanged man energy (hanging on the tree of life upside down) gives that perspective, doesn’t it? It took me kissing death on the mouth a few times before I got the perspective I really needed, though. Whatever, as long as we do the work to get there after the stepping stones appear. They’re not there to walk on themselves!

                Lighter than a feather feels great!

                • @[email protected]
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                  09 months ago

                  If I get the cash and a good drawing beforehand to be sure a lot of the tiny little details apart of it are done correctly beforehand I’ll have exactly that tattooed on my back. The hanged man.

                  • Maeve
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                    19 months ago

                    Forget the money and watch it flow. Put your mind on creative endeavors, because you sound like an artist.

                  • Maeve
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                    19 months ago

                    Boss Daddy af! Would love to see a photo, if you’re game.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Nope you should be a hardworking cog in the machine, a strait laced, early waking, labor generating machine just as the fucking capital owners require of you. Nothing like snapping you into servitude than the scorn of your peers.

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      109 months ago

      Tangentially related but your comment made me remember that I had the most random daydreams of slaying dragons and shit when I was a kid. And that it’s been such a long time since I had any real imaginative thoughts.