Cátia Silva
@catiasilva
Adult melancholy
Cátia Silva
In terms of the aforementioned spectrum, at the beginning of my twenties, I was a Plath. I thought whatever career1 I chose had to be the career. I didn’t want to waste time. I needed to make the right choice now , or be consigned to a life of mediocrity. I had friends that were Didion’s, and I envied them their free spiritedness—but I also thought... See more
Between Plath and Didion: the most important lesson I learned in my twenties
“In the 2020s it feels increasingly punishing to survive as a writer, let alone build a real world community centred on art and ideas. Soaring costs, falling wages, unpaid labour and the threat of AI, as well as the lingering aftershocks of the pandemic, to name but a few factors, have made it increasingly difficult to earn a living without vast ge
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All at once, too late and just at the right time.
I’m enamored by this idea of poetry watching, yet mostly, I forget to keep up with it. I’ve got earbuds in. I’m consuming content on the way to the grocery store instead of consuming my life
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I want to practice listening. I want to take in the world around me. I want to be painfully aware, attuned to people’s words, picking up their tone, imagining what their life is like. I want to hear happiness in their voice, I want to detect sorrow. I want to remove the earbuds and listen.
You stop saying you want to change the world. You start saying things like “job security” and “realistic timelines.” You stop expecting joy to be electric. You start hoping it’s just sustainable.
But I don’t think we were meant to be this edited.
I think we were meant to keep some of that unfiltered hunger.
But I don’t think we were meant to be this edited.
I think we were meant to keep some of that unfiltered hunger.
Amira • We never really stop being 17
I’ve been wondering if I can go back to who I was before the “real world” took over me, before pieces of my soul were lost to the social ladder.
maybe dostoevsky was right when he said that pain is the root of consciousness. there’s something about suffering that forces you to see things clearly, even the parts you wish you could unsee.
daphnesubstack.comI have finally discovered (or perhaps, simply accepted) that I have spent the past 4 years of my life molding myself into someone I’m not. I have spent 4 years convincing myself I am a corporate girl, that I was a girlboss, that I wanted to climb that ladder, that I wanted money and a title. Becoming a workaholic took away any free time I could hav
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