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Divya Ramesh's avatar

Lovely read Gowri. I'll be picking up Tiny Experiments now!

I long related to that fig tree quote (and got a tattoo of a fig tree - my first big one). Over the years, I stopped feeling the tug of the lost fig and more content in the ones I had chosen and the new ones that were made available as a result. I recently also saw this definition in the book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, and felt this was an updated growing-old-contentedly version of the fig tree concept. :)

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The Til

n.the reservoir of all possible opportunities still available to you at this point in your life—all the countries you still have the energy to explore, the careers you still have the courage to pursue, the skills you still have time to develop, the relationships you still have the heart to make—like a pail of water you carry around in your head, which starts off feeling like an overwhelming burden but steadily draws down as you get older, splashing gallons over the side every time you take a step.

From the till, a shopkeeper’s register filled with unspent change + until.

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Pallavi Dutta's avatar

This is such a refreshing take on the genre. This made me feel good about dipping and dropping many many things. So I'm not inconsistent, I'm just experimental :) An absolute triumph, my friend.

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