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My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by rconti »

mywittyname wrote: post #11
dpeck wrote: post #6

| In 20 years, my life has come full circle, 360 degrees for real. People often say 360 degrees when they mean 180. They say full circle when they’re really talking about a semicircle. I've never experience this, is it common for some group of people to use 180 to mean "the same" vs "completely different"?

That caught my eye too. Maybe it's a west coast thing. In the midwest, to do a 180 is to go in a completely different direction, and to come full-circle is to return to where you were after some long journey.

No, I think she just poorly wrote it. "Coming full circle" always means to return to where you started. But sometimes people say "turned it around 360 degrees" when they really mean 180.

Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by dqpb »

mywittyname wrote: post #11
dpeck wrote: post #6

| In 20 years, my life has come full circle, 360 degrees for real. People often say 360 degrees when they mean 180. They say full circle when they’re really talking about a semicircle. I've never experience this, is it common for some group of people to use 180 to mean "the same" vs "completely different"?

That caught my eye too. Maybe it's a west coast thing. In the midwest, to do a 180 is to go in a completely different direction, and to come full-circle is to return to where you were after some long journey.

> Maybe it's a west coast thing.

Well, they did just blow $77 billion dollars on a non existent high speed rail. So yeah, maybe it is a West coast thing.

Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by jsharf »

I think there's more to life than settling into a fixed set point. Life is interactive: you can improve your experience by putting in the right kind of effort and getting lucky. For example, the author wrote this article and made a strong connection with a bunch of strangers on the internet. Even if the author doesn't feel that way, I do, and that's enough for me. Agency is a muscle, exercise it!

Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by retsibsi »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #16
warkdarrior wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but it is common to use 360 to mean "completely different". Random example: https://waynestiles.com/how-to-turn-your-life-around-360-deg...

I'm incredibly confused. That's just a blatant disregard for math. I guess maybe if you change while turning you end up in the same place, changed, but different, and possibly dizzy?

Here (Australia) the phrase 'backflip' is sometimes used to deride a politician's change of mind. I guess if there's enough twisting and turning involved, we don't think too hard about the end result when creating these metaphors.

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Post by [deleted] »

dpeck wrote: post #6

| In 20 years, my life has come full circle, 360 degrees for real. People often say 360 degrees when they mean 180. They say full circle when they’re really talking about a semicircle. I've never experience this, is it common for some group of people to use 180 to mean "the same" vs "completely different"?

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Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

rconti wrote: post #21
mywittyname wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That caught my eye too. Maybe it's a west coast thing. In the midwest, to do a 180 is to go in a completely different direction, and to come full-circle is to return to where you were after some long journey.

No, I think she just poorly wrote it. "Coming full circle" always means to return to where you started. But sometimes people say "turned it around 360 degrees" when they really mean 180.

Isn't a full circle 360 degrees though? Coming back to where you started makes sense in a 180 degree turn, you're now looking back on your previous path and looking at the origin.

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Post by coderintherye »

dqpb wrote: post #22
mywittyname wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That caught my eye too. Maybe it's a west coast thing. In the midwest, to do a 180 is to go in a completely different direction, and to come full-circle is to return to where you were after some long journey.

> Maybe it's a west coast thing. Well, they did just blow $77 billion dollars on a non existent high speed rail. So yeah, maybe it is a West coast thing.

California did not spend $77 billion. It spent around $5.4 billion https://www.hoover.org/research/after-spending-54-billion-ca...

Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by IronWolve »

One of the things about getting older and divorced, people use to join organizations at higher rates, now we moved to online communities and an online/mobile life.

With a fulltime job and you working till death, you don't have time to do much. The local eagles/lions/moose/etc club, you at least got to go out and have dinner, chat with people, make friends, etc.

I checked out the local Masons lodge, and I was at least 20 years younger so I didn't ask to be sponsored. My friend in Ireland joined the Masons, he says the lodges are filled with younger people from 20s and up.

I read the "Starting over" and think, did you change your hobbies and activities too? There's so much to do now, how can one be bored. Even a trip to the library and parks is cheap and free.

Re: My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27

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Post by ProAm »

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #18

This article is so very sad. The author seems to be in a constant state of Deja vu.

It depends on how old you are. Life is funny and never turns our how you thought it would. I do like going back and reading the article "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich (popularized by Baz Luhrmann in the song 'Everybody's Free') from time to time[1]

[1] (snippet)

> Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded

> But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked… You are not as fat as you imagine Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum

> The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday

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