Daydreaming About Stuff I Dont Have... Yet

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

Not even against yourself.

At all.

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The price you pay for ignoring your gut feeling is very expensive

i think the western world has made us so caught up on having a purpose and finding it for our whole entire lives. some indigenous cultures believe we’re alive and here just as trees and animals are: to be here and to beautiful and strange, to simply just be. we don’t need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever