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An age of questions

Lost, grounded, and questions that don't have neat answers

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Alice Gao
Oct 03, 2025
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I thought about saving this draft in my Notes app forever, but I’m trying to be better about sharing the messier thoughts too. So instead of a neat round-up of things I’ve bought or loved lately, here’s something different: an attempt to put words to the low-level existential dread I’ve been carrying, and the bigger questions it keeps raising. Where do I want to live? What does it mean to shape a life at 38 without kids, when the usual markers of adulthood don’t quite apply? How do community, travel, and creativity fit into the shape of a future I can’t quite picture yet?

Matthew Wong, Another Day 另一天, 2018

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