2024 1. Desire is information from the future 2. Anxiety is not a product of fear alone, but is employed to defend against any negative feeling 3. Feeling is the only resolution 4. Anger is surprisingly enjoyable 5. All truthful communication is inappropriate by some standard 6. Voice notes are speech therapy 7. Instagram is embarrassing because the medium is the message 8. Love must not be conflated with attachment 9. True power is antithetical to control 10. Conflict is a gift 11. Eye contact is singular and sacred 12. Fantasies of love are just mechanisms through which I am taught to love myself enough to try
October, Louise Glück
“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.”
— Hildegard von Bingen, from ‘Selected Writings’ (via wraith-lace)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/magazine/kidnapping-long-island.html
rhinoplasty this buccal fat removal that for godssake watch a film produced in a country that isn’t the united states of america read a book read non-fiction learn to sew go to a pottery class go on a walk talk to old people look at medieval manuscripts do something interesting stop looking in the mirror so much someone will fuck you someone will love you and if not it doesn’t even matter that much but do something you don’t need botox you need to build muscle before you’re old and take care of your bones and take max 3 pictures of yourself per year
Can I be honest I think a huge chunk of your early adulthood is just putting the work in to recover from your childhood and learning to live with yourself and your past like your 20s are just the tutorial section of life
sorry but I am not subscribing to our society's disgusting obsession with youth. when I turn 30 I'm going to be really happy and throw a party and be elated at how much I will have grown by then, the same way I did when I turned 10 and celebrated finally being 'double digits'. When I turn 40 I will be ecstatic. There are good and bad things about every age but there is no way my 20s are going to be the best years of my life because I am still barely getting to know myself. By 30 I hope to be very well-acquainted