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A chat on 4chan
human
Wait a minute OP are you implying that you have 9 years of lost time in between this experience and now or am I being obtuse? Was it a dream that you had? Or was the 
>wake up, now I'm 26
Thing just like a rhetorical device to imply that the time flew by?
gpt
dream


Maybe you're giving up too easily on something, because you've been socially signaled that it's not a worthy pursuit. But the old man, your obstacle, is just an old man, and you shouldn't let him keep the girl, your potential, locked away in a yellow brick house for himself. 
Idk that's my Jungian take. Classic princess locked in the keep guarded by a dragon. But in this case the dragon doesn't seem like it's really a dragon, you just gave up because someone else told you you should.
human
Is there anything recently that you were going to pursue, but decided not to because of external influence?