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The Expanding and Contracting Phases of Life


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I tend to think that life follows these natural sort of like ballooning phases where like you kind of come in and then you balloon back out, you come back in and then balloon back out depending on the different phases, right? Like when you're young, you're very much like expanding that balloon of your social networks, the people you're meeting in your 20s, you're like early career years, you're building these networks, you're building these relationships that are going to kind of continue to grow over the course of your life.

But then as you have kids, you sort of narrow that a bit as you like focus in on those really, really important core relationships. And then as they get older, I think it starts to expand again, I see my parent now expanding and spreading their wings again.