valeria

A friendship is mostly b-roll. Errands, waiting for buses, being wrong about directions together. If every meeting requires a highlight, you’re dating the spectacle, not the person. Share a silence without leaping to fill it with facts about magnesium. If you can be boring together you can be alive together.

To measure art only by its ability to convey a message is to “demand propaganda.” It’s a pretty common perspective, especially in many online spaces today, but I think it should be avoided because it is an incredibly limiting and frankly, almost pedantic lens through which to view art. It reduces the work of art from something complicated, nuanced,... See more