Mastodawn

When Inspiration and Loss Collide: Writing This the Day After My 30th Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. March 27, 2026. I turned thirty. And I didn’t write about this yesterday. Not because it didn’t matter, and not because it didn’t hit me, but honestly because I was too sad to process it in real time. I also didn’t want to make my birthday entirely about grief again. I’ve had enough birthdays like that already. And on top of that, I needed space. Time to sit with what I heard, to let it settle, to understand why it affected me the way it did. So I’m […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/03/28/12/37/20/analysis/jaimedavid327/10307/when-inspiration-and-loss-collide-writing-this-the-day-after-my-30th-birthday/

jaimedavid327 Mar 27

Thirty, Somehow: A Birthday Reflection on Survival, Loss, and the Fragile Hope of Starting Again

I’m thirty years old today. And I’m sitting here thinking, holy shit. I actually made it. That sentence feels heavier than it probably should. People say it casually all the time, like getting older is just something that happens automatically, like breathing. But for me, and I think for a lot of us whether we admit it or not, making it to thirty doesn’t feel automatic. It feels earned. It feels like surviving something. It feels like crawling through a decade that didn’t always […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/03/27/03/00/00/analysis/jaimedavid327/10290/thirty-somehow-a-birthday-reflection-on-survival-loss-and-the-fragile-hope-of-starting-again/

Front Page Mar 16

Struggling to make friends as an adult? You may have fallen into the ‘liking gap.’

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FilmBook Mar 4

Sky and NOW March 2026 Schedule: New Movies & TV Shows

Link: https://film-book.com/sky-and-now-march-2026-schedule-new-movies-tv-shows/?fsp_sid=157296

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WIST Quotations Feb 20

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1888-09), "A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3 | WIST Quotations

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Devil's Panties Feb 26

02/26/2026
Polite or Honest
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16959
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#adulthood,#kids,#liz,#parenthood,#sale,#salesman

The New Yorker Feb 25

When Do We Become Adults, Really?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/when-do-we-become-adults-really

Stravne_18 Feb 20

"Adulthood, it turns out, is nothing more than dreaming as a child about 'when I grow up I'll be able to go to bed whenever I want,' and then, as an adult, praying 'I wish I could go to sleep at 10 PM.' We've been fooled, folks."
#Adulthood
#Adulting
#Life
#GrowingUp
#Reality