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So I finally just took a nap on my flight back home to Vancouver with two-hours left of what's totaling up to be a twenty hour journey, ten of those being stranded in Washington D.C.

It's times like these when everyone wishes the E-Cigarette from Metal Gear Solid V was real.

I was desperate enough to look up "sleepinginairports.net" to see if there was anywhere in D.C's Reagan that'd allow me to get as close to that in-game device as possible, rather than the asshole design of the airport's seats, that have a tall armrest on every other chair to prevent people from laying down and sleeping… in an Airport with connecting flights separated by nine hours…

Thankfully, the site did pull through and I found quite literally, the twenty something chairs in the airports  thousands that are comfortable enough to sleep in for an hour.

It's been quite a while though since I found myself counting the minutes. Last time might genuinely have been when I was still a Teenager, back when it felt like life would just go on forever.

I've forgotten entire years, yet can vividly remember wanting May to end already so school would end and I could relish the experience Summer, and enjoy that feeling like it would just go on forever. Inviting friends from all over the province to hang out at my house for a week felt like a year.

What's I find strange about my perception of time now is what it's not. I don't feel like time goes by faster than when I was a kid… sleeping on that chair for an hour felt like ten years..

The difference is previously, I was living in a moment, and when it ended, I was slowly transitioning into a new one…

Now, I'm living in a moment, it feels like foreve- and then I'm shocked to be in this new one! Almost like I fell through a portal.

I remember how long it took for Modern Warfare 2 to come out as a fifteen year-old, and in-turn, how long it felt like it was around for. By the time Modern Warfare 3 rolled, my entire landscape had figuratively and literally changed.

Meanwhile now, waiting for Arcane Season 2 is going to feel like a fucking eon… and then I'm going to watch it next week.

Future Raycevick Here! Can confirm!

Act One of Season 2 released so immediately, I was a dozen hours late to its debut! And now, I'm back to feeling like Act 2 is going to take another two years to release, even though it comes out Saturday!

Sometimes I wonder if this is what people really miss?

Because even if people did get something which recreated the exact circumstances of their most nostalgic memories, you can't indulge time with them like you once couldn't help.

P.S. I wrote quite a bit while I was traveling to a Wedding and visiting Family, so to try to make up for my absence, there'll be new Randomly Mines every remaining week of November!