Honestly, when the DTMF first came out…my tik-tok feed was full of everyone from the Balkans to SE Asia to Latin America to Africa posting their own neighbourhood, photos of their own “white chairs”, their own community parties, their own beautiful fields and seas.
When I cook or go for a walk, I go through a roster of my friends and relatives and call everyone. Whoever picks up the phone, I talk to. This is how I sustain relationships, and is a reliable method.
“you taught me about your past, thinking your future was me” is one of the most painfully relatable human experiences taylor swift has written about, that paralyzes you just the same every single time you go through it