sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Can I ask, is there something that determines the order of Recommended Substacks? I have more than the number that are shown, and they seem to randomise, but they also seem to never show several specific Substacks.
I would like to know this, too. I've recommended many Substacks but the same few seem to appear on my main page and I have no choice over which should be there.
Glad it's not just me. There's one in particular that I'd like to see appear but it just never does.
I don't know for sure, but it looks like it might be chronological--newest recommendations get highlighted. If true, then none of the others will ever surface.
It doesn't seem to be for me. A recent one I recommended now features in the list. One from ages ago has never featured. So weird.
That's what I mean. My newest recommendation is there now, but none of the older ones are--and probably won't be. I'd rather it wasn't there, to be honest.
Oh I see. Well, the earliest recommendation I made is featured. So 🤷♂️🤣
