Romanticise your life, no matter what people say. I regret not documenting EVERYTHING, because it wasn’t such a norm back in my teens and 20s. Keep writing, snapping and recording! 🫶
You need a hobby that requires using your hands: baking, knitting, rock climbing, Lego building, whatever. And you also need an activity that stimulates your mind: reading, learning a new language, Soduku, word searches, the crossword
I find this sinister, because euphemisms like “unalived” are part of a broader dumbing down of language. Orwell warned about “narrowing the range of thought” in 1984: “We shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there shall be no words in which to express it.”
One of the great tragedies of our time is that people are getting actively dumber, and that this is something we've chosen. We could be the smartest generation in history, we have all the treasures of knowledge at our fingertips, and yet we choose not to think, or learn.
I love that in Breaking Bad the cartel is depicted as an impossibly baroque faceless group capable of infinite nightmarish violence and in Better Call Saul the cartel is depicted as five cousins with cluster B personality disorders