western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.
Told this girl I wasn’t ready for a relationship and she responded “it’s been good, Hope you have a good one” kid you not, at 6pm her status was “food, wine + cuddles”...I. was...DEVESTATED😩