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[dereban]

so, once again, iiiiit's your local prismanon asking for some advice!

it's almost the end of the year, huh? like, ten months deep. i've been here for like, what? almost half a year now? that's kind of shocking to be honest. and it makes me wonder. who here misses their homes? but more so than that...

we're getting 'older' here, right? like, if your birthday passes, you count that as a +1 to your age, right?

so, the real question i have here is simple: if you start getting older than all of your friends back home, isn't it kind of sad? you spend all your time here, getting to know people, maybe making new friends. but you're aging. you don't know if your world's time is moving. like... i'm the only one from my world here, tbh. it's lonely! ( ´•̥̥̥ω•̥̥̥` )

the other thing ig i wanted to ask is...

if the person you care about the most is back home, how do you deal with that? how can you just bear waiting to figure out how to get home -- when you've been in this world for so long that you've almost given up hope on the idea that maybe, one day, they'll show up here. or even that you might actually go back?

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text; un: athanasia

[trivialization]

I've seen teenagers who are young enough to still grow some so as far as physical growth is concerned it should be easy enough to find out.

If you can convince any that you don't have questionable motives for wanting to measure them, anyway.

Otherwise, you're having experiences, aren't you? That's what aging is.

permanon;

[dereban]

well, yes?

although i don't think i'd grow any more than i already have

[trivialization]

So to answer your first question, you're aging. If you return to your old world, it will be as an an older person. Even if the dates there don't show it.

That's something people have a common sense of without bringing other worlds into it. When someone goes through experiences they find inspiring or traumatizing or deeply formative in any other way we say they've been 'aged.' If you meet your friends again, as you are now, you will differ from them for it.

As for the rest, I can't tell you how to feel about it, but many times in life people journey away from each other. Sometimes even close partners. I've also left many things behind, long before I came here. I've found that when you're traveling it's easiest to have the heart of a traveler, and appreciate the road for what you pass by as well as where you linger.

Oh, and if you're lonely don't just write anonymously. There are a lot of people here who are also unmoored, I'm sure some of them would like to be friends.

[dereban]

i guess that's true

i just don't like the idea of 'growing old' without the people i care about.
and if that world doesn't 'age', then it's... bothers me

maybe it might be easy for some people to have that heart, but i just don't have that strength.

and i'd rather stay anonymous. i don't like the idea of showing people weakness like this.