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A few days ago, I saw a post on social media about childhood and school memories. It was an emotional video. Honestly, it wasn’t the kind of post you see and forget; it stuck in my mind. How strange life has become, right? Wake up in the morning, go to the office, finish work, and go to bed. It's not that there's no productivity in life; there definitely is. Meeting new people, reading, traveling, and all that. I don’t even have to ask dad for money, we laugh, we smile. But are we happy? How do we understand where happiness lies? Does it come when we lie in bed, or after two hours of overthinking and watching Netflix, or when we can't sleep until we've thought about our ex-lover once and felt sad? Well, the truth is, even if we are happy, it's not the same happiness we felt when we used to watch the rain before going to school, or after coming back from school and watching Doraemon, or when the neighborhood kids would come to call us for playing, or after getting our favorite thing. But now, watching the rain doesn't bring that feeling, there are no friends to play with, the joy of getting our favorite thing isn’t the same, and many times there’s the fear of losing it. Yes, one thing remains: watching Doraemon still brings the same happiness. It sounds depressing, but the truth is, we are not sad either; it's just a state of neither being happy nor sad. It's like being on Trishanku’s ladder, neither reaching heaven nor returning to earth. I don't know if these thoughts will come to mind in the last 7 minutes, but one thing is certain: childhood will definitely come to mind in those last 7 minutes. We'll manage something; if not sad, we'll be happy. But for now, lunch is over, and it’s time to join the office. Anyways, bye. #life #childhood #adulthood

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