#notreally?

june 21: jen! we made it!! i’m very proud of us :)

even though i pessimistically told my parents and sister that i’ve gone through only a tiny bit of the growing up/self-growth that i would have if this year were in person, i think that was an under exaggeration.

i think i/we have grown: through pok, through meeting each other online, by going through the stress and success alone but not really by ourselves. as i told my two favourite English teachers ever today, it’s been a good year. it’s been really fun. (I’m really less eloquent when I’m talking rather than writing… that is no under exaggeration!)

I thought I’d just list some things that I thought of when I decided I wanted to celebrate you and you finishing your final exam of the year (just a day after me handing in my lab report, so I’m celebrating me too):

John Green and everything he’s written and spoken that we’ve read and heard

Lorde showing some real self-flourishing in her happy new hit single

I kind of hate the term self-actualization, if you think you know what self-actualization means, you’re a liar.

The latest song I added to the playlist, sun in an empty room by the Weakerthans, is a very celebratory song.

I love the word celebratory because it sounds like a story (it sounds extremely similar to celibate, too, and i don't know how to feel about that)

I wrote this before reading your post because no spoilers to influence how I wrote it (and lo and behold, we both mention JG! no surprise there, haha)