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Perceived Age


"To live is to be other. It's not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday.

Claudia Hammond, a psychology writer, introduces the concept of a "reminiscence bump," which occurs when we encounter novelty in the world of firsts (travel, relationships, etc.). Covid came and went, school felt more of a chore juggling it between projects (& my first and last fulltime job), but despite the madness I came out winning; it's hard to find who didn't somehow in the zirp era. Thanks to Alex Reibman, Ankit Gupta, Anish Agnihotri, Caleb Sirak, Dar Sleeper, Jesse Michael Han, Justin Zheng, Khushi Suri, @mempooIed, @spikedoanz for helping review and edit!

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