‘don’t have pets you can’t afford’ is a generally cool sentiment but very outdated since we need to chat about the private equity elephant in the room buying up all of the vets and making tooth extractions $1500
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
“Nobody is coming to save you” but your day literally gets better after you consume art made by other people. You hang w friends & you’re no longer suicidal, even if just for a few minutes. They’re lying to you about the significance of community. People are saving you EVERYDAY!
Today I toured a house built in 1774 with masonic symbols on it and the tour guide said we couldn't find out what they meant because the Freemasons won't tell us and then a guy in the tour group spoke up because he was a Freemason and told us what they meant and I'm still loling
overheard a guy trying to convince his girlfriend to get a protein bar instead of the croissant she wanted and she said, verbatim, “just because you don’t like joy, josh, doesn’t mean i want to be miserable too.”
in less than 5 years ariana got married, divorced, entered a secret homoerotic relationship with her co star, got with a married man who had a baby on the way, left him and got back with her ex
I feel like we don't talk enough about Wi$h Li$t, especially the acoustic version with the string arrangements; it is absolutely gorgeous.
I think the part that goes "I hope they get what they want / I just want you" is a real statement of intent, a whole philosophy of life.