Madison Watson
@midnightpoboy
Madison Watson
Nonstalgia (noun) The unsettling sensation that you are never be able to fully access the past; that once you are departed from an event, some essential quality of it is lost forever. A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space,
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“Hope (...) is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope
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Midnight Poboys
At 7, 8, 9pm we’d sit, increasingly grumpy and restless. We’d stare at each other, stare at the walls, shuffle into the kitchen again and ask for the 20th time if there was anything we could do to help. The answer was always “no,” until the night grew even later and finally, music started playing. Nikki would shout, “can someone come
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Me and nostalgia go way back
instagram.comOn the morning of my 24th birthday Sadie makes me whipped cream by hand and we listen to Tom Waits in the kitchen and I think that I could live like this forever, really, this could be my life forever and I wouldn’t complain. I know that I felt this way because I wrote it down, right there, in this document — I left the kitchen as it was happening
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When you love someone, I think the question that you ask is: can I help them be okay? Can I make their life better without ruining my own? What can I do to be there? To me, the heart of love is the acknowledgement that we have little control over how other people live and yet our fate is bound up with theirs. S is not the only person I feel that... See more
Ava • no exit
Ultimately, both parties are trying to answer one simple, fundamental question: Do we sense that we are meant to journey together?