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[โ€“] mekhos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maybe because they are in the past you feel can never reach them again, like drifting away on a river, and you are scared that attempting to embrace them just means you'll suffer an angony of separation.

[โ€“] Illyria@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] mekhos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Eww! Lol, no I'm a bored person enjoying a federated world. I chose an analogy to convey time as a physical thing to make it relatable without presenting you with a wall of text. If I struck a chord its purely coincidence.