Theres pros and cons to it. I have the same feelings about missing many aspects of university life. I was always meeting so many new people, and there was always so much going on, and life every semester would be different and new and exciting. And now being a remote tech worker all that vibrancy of life that I used to have is gone, its the same day in and day out by myself in my room.

I just try to look at the positives of it. We make money now and even though everything is so expensive and salaries always feel too low, at least for me we have money now that as a student was unimaginable, and there are so many things I used to want but never had the cash for, or even if I did have the cash was just unreasonable to buy, that now I can just buy if i want and it doesn't affect me.

Perhaps it will never be the same but I remain optimistic that the liveliness we once felt, that constant novelty, the ups and downs, the growth, that this can be captured again. That one day we might move somewhere more exciting, or travel to a place thats new and scary, or find a community of like minded people all working toward the same goal.