i keep a document on my phone called "things that felt like the end of the world but weren't."
every time i'm spiraling i add to it. then i read the old ones.
"didn't get into first choice college" (met my best friend at second choice).
"thought i'd never get over them" (can barely remember their face now.
it's becoming proof that i can survive everything.
even this.
one thing about Rihanna is how she managed to keep her authenticity and beauty over the years. she never fully disconnected from where she came from. anytime she had free time, she went back to Barbados, and that kind of grounding keeps a person from getting lost.
I started writing by hand last year and i will not stop. it feels stupid for about a week, your hand cramps, you write like a child, you feel slow. then around day ten it happens. you notice you are finishing your thoughts for the first time in years. i cannot half type on paper, you have to actually commit to the word you wrote, and that changes what you are actually saying. i used to type everything and almost none of it stayed with me. i could not tell you now what i wrote in last years docs, but what i wrote in my notebooks i can still remember exact words from october. something about ink makes the thing permanent in the person, not the page, the person
Viola Davis has spoken about how ignoring her creative calling affected her mental health. it highlights something important: when you consistently deny a core part of yourself, it doesn’t just disappear quietly.
my favorite ways to talk to a stranger:
- offer to take a photo for them in pretty places
- ask what food they ordered
- comment on how beautiful the weather is
- give them a casual compliment
- ask what they're reading
- ask for directions
- casual smile when you walk by
either it leads to a longer convo or it's just a positive human interaction of the day
strangermaxxing success
REMEMBER. Everyone is in love with you. The universe (God) is conspiring in your favor. Nothing is happening to you. Everything is working for you. Operating from a state of amusement is greater than operating from a state of annoyance. Nothing matters that much but everything is important. Make a move. Be intentional. A feeling is information. Take note. Adjust accordingly. It’s only good or bad depending on how you think about it. Change your mind. Change your life.
Fruitvale Station had a small budget and Ryan Coogler was fresh outta film school Michael B Jordan was barely getting roles. Now they first time Oscar winners on their fifth film together legendary run
Fun fact. I studied the Meisner Technique for 3 years when I left college. Bringing a character to life is truly such a creative and thrilling experience. Having to build a history behind every single word said is no joke. I love actorrrsss, so much.
Shonda Rhimes on the Stockton Street Podcast about how she decided to start writing Grey's Anatomy
"What happened was, 9/11 had happened. And I said to myself, if my life ended tomorrow, what will I regret having not done? And the answer was be a mom. So nine months and two days after 9/11, my daughter was born. I adopted a daughter. And it was amazing. But it also meant that, I never left the house again. You know, you have a baby, you don't wanna go anywhere. You wanna be at home. And I watched a lot of TV for the first time then. And sort of thought, I don't see anything on TV that I really wanna watch. And Grey's was literally a show that was a show that I wrote because I wanted to watch that show. And I learned how to write TV by writing that. I'd never written television before. There's a lot of things that I tried. There's a lot of things I didn't know if would work. And what was great was the thing in my head was the thing that audiences really wanted to see."