When I say deprived I mean deprived in terms of getting on with doing normal things in the world.  Stuff like getting careers together, making friends with a bunch of people who were not premies, going to a stack of parties, having lots of sex, just getting on with life.  For many of us we were in our 20s, a time when we should really have been doing all that stuff.  However, for many but not all, we spent our time going to satsang every frigging night, being in ashrams, using up all our vacation allowances going to 'Festivals' in far flung places etc

Personally I enjoyed a lot of that, the premie bit and many times had a real blast, doing meditation, having great experiences and making lots of premie friends.  At the time I thought I was so privileged and 'graced', but now see that I would have preferred to just simply have had a 'normal' 20s. 

It was as a reaction to this super devotional period that many premie either left totally or got spaced out, the spacing out (from being full on premies that is) was a good thing as it allowed a lot of catching up to do.

Hope this clarfies what I meant?

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