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While I haven't had the pleasure of participating in a Roman threesome, I've thought a lot in the past 5 or 6 years about many of the ideas you're reckoning with here, and like you I started thinking about them through my own sort of framework. I've come to see everyone's lives as existing on a spectrum between stability and excitement. The traditional path (what here in America we would hilariously call the "American dream," which I've spent the last 7 years of my life actively running from) aspires to maximal stability, while it sounds like you have been maximizing excitement recently and are experiencing the comedown from that. I can certainly relate. I remember feeling lost and lonely after the excitement in my life peaked with the abrupt conclusion of my 4 month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. Since then, that loneliness and lack of stability has led me to gradually make decisions pushing me more towards the middle of the spectrum. And now, unsurprisingly, I am yearning for a bit more excitement again.

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