I finished reading The Year of Magical Thinking a couple of days ago and it made me think about all the negative “Ordinary Instant”(s) that cause us to lose our balance and spiral out of control such as the death of a loved one, company wide layoffs, or the end of a romantic relationship. Some …
Food for thought: What if what doesn’t work out is the best thing that could have happened to you? We have this silly idea in our head that because something doesn’t go according to plan, that means we have been fucked over. Seeing the world from our myopic point of view means we have limited …
We had a garage sale yesterday and I made two observations: People actually come to these things We are ego-centric, emotional and meaning making machines (in the best way) As people trickled into our driveway, it dawned on me that I’m not built for garage sales. I wasn’t mentally prepared for people to haggle with …
Random thought as I was jogging today with my brother while listening to a Spotify playlist called “songs for romanticizing what li[f]e would be if i was a girl in the 1880s”…magic is something you create. Each individual experience is a sliver of magic, so atomic and weightless that it feels insignificant, unimportant. But each …