the "cool"
what makes it worse is that overthinking is often culturally rewarded. we live in an era where analysis is conflated with emotional depth, where second-guessing is seen as intellectual responsibility, where being “too self-aware” has become a quiet badge of honor. overthinkers are often praised for being introspective, emotionally intelligent, arti... See more
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
“People who are comfortable with themselves don’t react strongly to what goes on around them….” (The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig, p. 120)
hair inspiration
scrolling through gorgeous glowing blonde heads of hair, trying to find one to copy, one to emulate, independent of the sunglasses, or the cigarette, or the headband, or the wine glass, or the small chest, or the glowing skin, or the anything that is far from me. I don’t need new things. Just a new haircut.
How to treat Paris like it’s Los Angeles
Complain about the “commute” between the rive gauche and the rive droite
Scope out coffee shops and, since they’re all good, only the enter the ones where everyone is under 40 and well dressed
Go to magazine stores and pretend to care about any of the magazines without celebrities, maybe buy one and ignore Harr
... See morePeople are so helplessly chronically online they see a perfectly normal activity being done in public like reading or journalling and think nah that can’t be real... that it’s so unusual it must be “performative”... lol
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Some of the most quietly interesting people I know have one thing in common: they spend time in places where nothing is asked of them. Not fancy cafes where you feel the need to dress a certain way or Instagram-worthy getaways. Just simple, unassuming places, like a park you’ve never visited, a station or a random indie bookstore that is not aesthe... See more
how to become gently interesting
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