friendship
Sara Tasker - Me & Orla • Manifesto for Posting Online in 2023
Friendships are special.
You choose each other purely based on the human beings you are and how much you enjoy each other’s company. It’s not out of obligation. Not transactional. There are no expectations or great demands other than shared laughter, trust, and support.
It’s just someone who brightens your day by... See more
instagram.comFriendship was what taught me that love is an endurance sport with no finish line. You keep picking up the phone and sending your dumb texts and ordering crudo and white wine at New American restaurants and seeing movies together and asking about their families and sometimes things change and sometimes they stay the same. Disenchantment,
... See moreThe inexplicability of the gut is probably why some people talk about it as if it’s mystical. But I think what we experience as a “gut feeling” is simply us at our most honest—proof that some tucked-away part of our brain remembers everything, not just what we want to remember, knows what’s true instead of what we want to be true, and understands... See more
Haley Nahman • #5: What if you just trusted yourself?
My grandfather once told me:
The worst decisions in life are made when you allow your head to talk you into something when your gut already said no.
I’ll never forget that.
Sahil Bloomx.comTrust the fear
The purely intuitive-me ignored the fact that my gut is not some pristine oracle whispering eternal truths. It's been shaped by every fear, every trauma, every half-remembered lesson from childhood. Sometimes what feels like wisdom is just anxiety wearing a very convincing disguise.