some of the stuff i’ve been dealing with is like “remedial adulting,” just a bunch of simple boring life skills other people probably learned when they were kids or teenagers that i managed to avoid. it’s painful and embarrassing and not very interesting to read or write about

for many people, your 30s are when the world of your childhood begins to fall apart. your parents and family age, get sick. time happens to people, and places. you have to create a new world equal in worth to the one that’s dying, or you’re stuck living in that dying world.