I must say I am happiest with hybrid. As someone living alone I start to chew the furniture with my work happening in the same space as my leisure. I do love the flexibility, the fact that I can literally just make lunch and eat it rather than dealing with a wet lunchbox sandwich. But I do like to see other people, and an entirely remote lifestyle makes me go a little crazy

My attitude is that big news always gets through any filters. If i filter out Trump’s name, I’m still going to see things like “Canada proposes counter US tariffs” or “[My State’s Governor] details plans for medical spending in absence of federal aid” or “Selena Gomez bares it all in tiktok about raids”. At that point I can say “what tariffs, what funding, what raids?” and go find out what’s happening. And if aliens invade the planet in an emergent breaking story, the group chat will pop off, I can tailor my daily meme experience toward being pleasant

I was really hoping to experience the old “My parents were right all along” revelation that so much folk wisdom says is inevitable. Unfortunately, the older I get, the more experiences I have and the more perspective I gain… my parents really look worse and worse. I would rather it be the other way, and ultimately I am sadder for my younger self as I age.

Edit: I see this is now top comment and I kind of wanted to add onto this. I still have a little hope for this to happen yet, but I am in my 30s and well into the age when I would have expected this revelation to appear. There are still milestones ahead I’ve yet to experience: namely, I don’t have children of my own yet. There are more grand perspective shifts ahead of me, and I still have some hope I may come to understand and forgive my father someday. It hasn’t happened yet, and I can’t imagine making the same unloving and neglectful choices as he did. I keep my mind open to the possibility of letting go.