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.
i think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.
the goal is to be like Dua Lipa (good at what she does, pursuing her passion, rich, well read, always travelling and exploring new cultures, fashionable, promoting the arts, multilingual, politically aware)