Hi and welcome back to Monocycle, a podcast by Man Repeller hosted by Leandra Medine, who is me.

I wrote a story about being happy for Man Repeller a couple of weeks ago,

and one of the comments underneath the story from one of our fabulous community members posed a really, really interesting question.

And that question was, what does now smell like?

And I thought about that for a second.

And I thought that it was really intelligent, right?

What does now smell like?

So I got back to work yesterday after a week of vacation,

and that vacation was incredible. I was in Spain and I was on a boat and I don't think I got back to work yesterday after a week of vacation, and that vacation was incredible.

I was in Spain and I was on a boat and I don't think I wore shoes the whole time that I was there for seven days.

And we went to restaurants that were only accessible by beach and we needed dinghies to get to the restaurant.

And sometimes we just swam back to the boat that we were on afterward.

And we cooked dinner ourselves and it was freeing and time flew, but it also stood still.

Think about that for a second.

Time going by quickly, but you're being able to remember every single moment.

It's sort of like your brain is existing in your favorite Instagram filter.

It's just saturated to your personal perfection, your favorite truth.

You know, it's like you know you're on vacation when you lose track of the days of the week.

Saturday becomes Tuesday, becomes Friday becomes Monday, and boom.

But see, the point is that I got back, and because we're a publication, I got to thinking ahead,

to working through my stories for the end of the week, to writing those stories, to editing our contributor stories for next week,

to laying out the next month's worth of monocycle topics. And to thinking through,

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