Ideally life should feel like Animal Crossing. You’re hanging out. Going to the beach. Eating fresh fruit. You are a little in a hole financially but it’s fine
turns out going monk mode for six weeks and doing love activities and beauty rituals and getting rid of tons of stuff and sobering up and eating whole foods and being surrounded by people you adore does fix your life
AND SO ACTUALLY THE REASON I’M SINGLE IS BECAUSE I HAVE PRAYED FOR A TRUE LOVE AND NOBODY IS MAKING THE CUT YET. I’M PROTECTED FROM MEDIOCRITY. THAT’S THE ONLY REASON. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU.
i wish more people allowed themselves (or were allowed!) to lean into the absurdities in everyday life. because everyday life IS often absurd. and i think one of poetry's functions is to encourage us, embolden us to embrace or at least recognize absurdity a bit (or a lot!) more.
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you, [looking at myself] it's over.