Your Garden Grows

what if I just decided to live without shame. what then

is he … you know … open to interpretation?

Tania Qurashi (American, 1993)

despite all my dread i am still just a girl in a bed

Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.

there’s a part of me that isn’t the same anymore.

every social interaction i initiate feels like i’ve violated like 15 untold rules

sometimes i think about how constellations are an entirely man-made construct and don’t actually exhist inherently in nature. i mean, the universe just gave us stars, and we saw art and myths and stories in them. the capacity that humans have for seeing purpose in the incidental makes me realize just how lonely we are on this planet, desperately searching for meaning elsewhere in the universe.