If someone treats you very poorly for a considerable stretch of time, it’s not personal toward you, it’s personal within them. Don’t anger; send them a “get well soon” card as though they’re ill. In a way, they are.
You aren’t gaining weight. You’re retaining water.
It’s ok to hate trends. You needn’t question your taste, nor should you express that hatred directly to those having fun with trends. You’re merely operating from different aesthetic + observational planes.
Speaking of expressing hate… the persistent urge to spew hot takes is not the pursuit of truth or enlightenment, but an egoic assertion of moral superiority. It’s fun to be petty or pretentious sometimes. Criticism is, itself, an art. Just know where it comes from and don’t make it your personality.
Speaking of making it your personality… the more you insist on what you aren’t, the more you reveal your closeness to it.
Honey makes almost everything taste better.
When faced with the choice to text or call, call. A good phone call heals rifts and makes time stand still.
You can put potato chips on a sandwich and change the course of your entire day.
Old Jewish men and old Italian men share the same “yeah, rather not”ness. Find one while he’s young and still fun. Marry him. He will predict society’s varying moments of collapse and watch smugly from a park bench, black coffee in hand. Someday you’ll appreciate his candid and decisive refusal of everything.
Nag Champa in the living room. Eucalyptus oil in the bathroom.
Most people are redeemable. It just depends how badly they want redemption.
You are a blue-flame-hot paradox, an ice cream sundae for breakfast, snow on the beach. You deserve bronze sconces and Persian rugs, a pat on the back and a slap in the face. Your green thumb, your black heart (or vice versa, they’re equally endearing). Kiss the envelope with red lipstick before you send the rejection letter. Nothing matters and so everything does.
Chips on a sandwich anytime, any day.
I really avoid hot takes. Sometimes it feels like a fight for relevancy. Not into it.
On a side note, this was a nice read. I am retaining water. 😌