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I’ve told this story to multiple people now, so much so that it makes sense for me to write a blogpost about it. I was on the bus with my wife one day, around 2020 or 2021, when I found myself getting inexplicably anxious. And I kinda managed to figure out what it was, or at least triangulate it somewhat: we were in the east of Singapore, and we were on a bus, and the sun was beginning to set. All of these in concert triggered an emotional flashback to when I was a teenager, and I would be staying out late with friends, and I would be heading home\u2013 and I would be in trouble with my parents, because it was already dark when I got home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to explicitly ‘repattern’ this feeling of anxiety by going to Tampines Bus Interchange\u2013 where I spent a great deal of time in my youth (ages 10-21) \u2013 and sitting there to watch the sun go down. I hadn’t been there much in the decade since, because my wife and I moved to Yishun, which is a whole ‘nother part of Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It worked. I wrote a thread about it<\/a>. I’ll update this post further in the future the next time I feel compelled to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve told this story to multiple people now, so much so that it makes sense for me to write a blogpost about it. I was on the bus with my wife one day, around 2020 or 2021, when I found myself getting inexplicably anxious. And I kinda managed to figure… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-sunset","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14770,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/14770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}