please romanticise your life. take pretty pictures, feel like the main character, light up that candle, dance to your favourite music, and buy yourself gifts. this is your life.
death to nonchalance. romanticise your existence to an unreasonable degree. be gloriously delusional about how good it can get. inconvenience yourself for the sake of love. gush about your passions {the prerequisite to having passions is becoming passionate}. get obsessed. get invested. be a fool for the right things. adore your people with your whole chest. devote yourself to something far greater than yourself. say what you mean & mean what you say. get dolled up for the most mundane activities imaginable. smile with your teeth. giggle shamelessly. kiss longer & slower. have a signature everything. accumulate hilarious stories. love so hard it rewires others’ beliefs about love. be someone God clearly had fun making. +10 if strangers ask what you do for a living. let people know they made your day. make someone’s day. take spontaneity seriously. send five voice notes in a row, because why wouldn’t you? leave people better than you found them. be so infatuated with your baby’s face you take approximately 400 photos a day. gush. just gush!!
I saw a TikTok of a guy saying “for as much as we use our phones, it’s weird that they aren’t in any of our dreams” and I can’t stop thinking about that.
silently crying in the back of my uber and the driver turned around and gave me this stick of gum before saying in broken english “u will be okay tomorrow, today u can be sad”
I think I learned that my imagination and level of appreciation isn’t safe. That’s why I’m going to read Anne of Green Gables to enter a world where noticing beauty is normal, imagination is safe and feelings are big but survivable
People respect you more when they don't see you often. Even parents. Trust me. It's strange how distance rearranges love, how absence restores what closeness erodes. When people are deprived of your presence, they start seeing you clearly again, not through habit but through awareness. Proximity dulls perception. Space sharpens it. That's just how the human mind works.