a promise of lightning

people who say they don't understand sports annoy me because it's just a competency kink. like its cool to see people be good at things. like out of everyone in the world this one random guy was blessed or cursed with insane powers and he can for some reason beat literally everyone else at everything. that's like stuff out of myths. and he happens to look like a gas station attendant. or when a young person is so fucking good at their sport that they draw followers who travel to see them and then people spread the word about the person and this person revolutionizes their sport and this person is like a 20 year old woman from des moines.

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

it’s actually crazy how passion and sincerity is the answer