There are pretentious letterboxd cinephiles, and then there are joy-pilled people like my cousin, who’s driving two hours each way to watch 9 hours of The Odyssey in 70mm over the course of 36 hour.
Made a list in my journal titled, ‘I like the way I feel when…’, and it’s a list of nice things I do for myself so I’m reminded to reach for them when I want to feel better.
Generic advice for my 20 year olds: keep practising resilience. You’ll need plenty of it in your 30s. The compounding effect of small, difficult choices is one of the greatest long-term investments you can make when you’re young. Get up as often as you fall
what is the solution to just being too avoidant to ever do any of the things that would improve your life materially. it doesn’t even feel like depression it feels like there’s a brick wall
I love this world we've created where if you're not camera ready at all times and end up in the background of someone's video looking a little less than enthused it's going to get put online and everyone's going to call you a miserable bitch
Growing up in a household with mid food was bleak as a child but as I've grown up I've come to realize that all the women in my family just had bigger things in their life to worry about & aspirations bigger than spending countless hours in the kitchen which I genuinely love