Gathering material on the euphoria, opportunity, hope, brightness, pain, confusion and displacement of being on your twenties. Maybe I'm just trying to put together a guide for myself on how tf to adult
whatever happens to be the latest term for pathologising your life experience. Everything is flattened, simplified. I worried that being immersed in it was making me think this way too.
i now remember what it is like to be in 8th grade, comparing yourself to all of the other girls, everyone at different stages of puberty and maturity. some are the youngest and some are the oldest, experiencing the world for the first time vs. having seen it through the eyes of older siblings. small things can be isolating, and big things can feel... See more
How novel a concept, to stay with yourself. To refuse to let a false label win, no matter how seductive, well-crafted, popularly received it becomes. You have the last word on who you are.
People change in four seasons: when they hurt enough they have to, when they see enough they are inspired to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to