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You do just get on with it, don't you? What's the alternative? Doesn't bear thinking about...
Since I wrote that post I've turned my life upside down again by changing jobs... Decided to go the less pay/more work route because I'm a fucking idiot! 🤪🔫 Was supposed to be slowing down not ramping up!!
I have been making more of an effort to see people, was supposed to go out to a gig last night and see all my Brissy musician mates but restrictions capped attendance at fifty... I think everybody decided to stay home instead! Also started regular catch ups with a few old bandmates, very grown up dinner nights at the German Club... We're all old and busy, two with kids, and three out of four of us don't drink anymore anyway! It's good fun tho', keeps us out of trouble...
Very different life to the one I was living in London... No more popping out for last orders on a Sunday night for it to turn into an accidental all-nighter... Don't miss that life TBH, it was killing me...
I'm coming up to ten years now. It's been good, overall, if it hadn't been for midlife crisis, depression and the likes, which has seen my social circle whittle down more and more. These days, while knowing lots of people in the greater cycling community etc, I feel increasing longing for the deep connections I had in my 20s even, before I left Germany, but that's all on the other side of the globe, literally. As you said, you just get on with it.