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This week's question comes from a reader named Rachel:
"I'm 34 and it genuinely feels like everyone around me has already figured it out… career, relationship, knowing who they are. I feel like I got the timeline wrong somehow. Like I missed a step everyone else took."
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Here's something about periodical cicadas.
They spend either 13 or 17 years underground before they emerge. Not weeks. Not a rough patch. Nearly two decades, tunneling slowly through the dark, feeding on tree roots, doing something that from the outside looks exactly like nothing.
Then, all at once, they surface. Millions of them, together, in the same season. They shed their exoskeletons, find each other, and fill entire forests with sound. It's one of the loudest events in nature.
The 17-year cicada is not running behind the 13-year cicada. It's on a completely different schedule, one that looks like delay until the moment it doesn't.
The most convincing lie a timeline tells is that everyone else is ahead. Some of them just surfaced earlier and are doing the loud part right now. Some are still underground. Some emerged and went quiet again. The forest only sounds like everyone knows what they're doing.
The underground years aren't wasted. They're structural. The whole emergence depends on what happened in the dark. The depth of the roots, the patience of the tunneling, the waiting that looked like nothing.
You're not behind. You're just not the 13-year kind.
And when you surface, you'll be loud.
—Gabi & Bea
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