ᶠʳᶦᶜᵏᶫᵉ ᶠʳᵃᶜᵏᶫᵉ

“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.”

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.”

Sometimes I long for anything that might be frivolous. I go between feeling much too young and much too old for my age. I crave nothing serious, but when I pursue it, I am the one to drag a dark cloud overhead. It's much easier to seem silly and light than to be the sum of your experiences. If only I could exist as perfect lightness, always laughing with my mouth open. I would float through life with ease, believing in my own unserious personality.

The way people don’t scream I hate you in arguments anymore they say like you’re abusive/ manipulative/toxic. It’s like there’s been a collective pathologising of emotions through an excess of therapy and dominance of therapy culture. There’s a new obsession with like a clinical validity to one’s hatred that has to be expressed in this depersonalised way and viewed as more valid than expressing your dislike.