i love declining cookies. i love telling TSA agents i do not consent to having my photo taken. i love pretending i have any agency over the countless tiny ways i am surveilled every single moment of every single day
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.