my only want for myself in 2026 is not to waste away. years are going by too quickly, and now that i’m an adult it’s terrifyingly easy to slip into stagnation and do nothing for long stretches of time. comfort is so dangerous; it steals years before you even realise they’re gone.
people’s identities have been reduced to the things they consume, algorithms mean that those things become popular faster, once something is popular it stops being a unique identifier, people then feel the need to find and move onto the next thing ‘unique’ thing, rinse & repeat