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user-inactivated  ·  3563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where was your first kiss?

    I know we have all experienced this to some extent, but I just had a major dose of visiting a place from childhood and it appearing much smaller now.

First kiss too embarrassing to recount, but I do wanna talk about this, because the opposite has happened to me.

When I went to Egypt when I was ten, my memories afterward were that the pyramids were all pretty close to each other, as was the sphinx.

Which made going again two years ago mind-blowing in a way. I think my 10 year old brain just couldn't comprehend that massive, endless, expansive sea of sand, so it put everything close together. But all of that shit is actually REALLY far from each other.