The Expanding and Contracting Phases of Life
00:00:00.000 | I tend to think that life follows these natural sort of like ballooning phases where like
00:00:04.480 | you kind of come in and then you balloon back out, you come back in and then balloon back
00:00:08.040 | out depending on the different phases, right? Like when you're young, you're very much like
00:00:11.720 | expanding that balloon of your social networks, the people you're meeting in your 20s, you're
00:00:16.000 | like early career years, you're building these networks, you're building these relationships
00:00:20.400 | that are going to kind of continue to grow over the course of your life. But then as
00:00:24.040 | you have kids, you sort of narrow that a bit as you like focus in on those really, really
00:00:29.120 | important core relationships. And then as they get older, I think it starts to expand
00:00:32.520 | again, I see my parent now expanding and spreading their wings again.