🦄 Startups & VC 5h ago · Lachlan Brown

I’m 37, I own a home, I show up, I make dinner – and some nights I sit in the kitchen after everyone’s asleep and feel like a stranger who got very good at the role

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I’m 37, I own a home, I show up, I make dinner – and some nights I sit in the kitchen after everyone’s asleep and feel like a stranger who got very good at the role
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Last night, around 11:30, I found myself sitting at the kitchen counter again, staring at the dishwasher I’d just loaded. The house was quiet. Everything was exactly as it should be — clean counters, tomorrow’s coffee prepped, everything prepped for the morning routine. And yet there I was, feeling like an actor who’d forgotten he was still wearing his costume after the show ended.
This feeling has been visiting me more often lately. Not depression, exactly. Not unhappiness. So

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