june 30: i really really loved your post last week about celebration. before this year, i was never really the type of person to put much emotional value on moments. my parents are (they want to commemorate every birthday and graduation and holiday), but for the longest time i took the apathetic teenager route, being generally indifferent to the passage of time.

i feel like i've repeated this a lot on this blog, but this year i fell in love with the idea that we make our own meanings (and your lovely wording of "we create ourselves"). whoever formalized the "law" of conservation of energy clearly failed to account for whatever the heck is going on in our brains.

congratulations on absolutely destroying first year! because this post is an adequate excuse to write sentimental friendship things, i wanted to use my pseudo-last-post-of-the-school-year to celebrate you. thank you for being a remarkable and steadfast friend, for sharing poetry and music with me (the song you added was lovely, as usual), for always having my back in group chats and always having my back in general, for loving john green and sunsets, for sending me pictures of your immaculate baked goods, for your generosity and thoughtfulness and excellently composed tumblr posts. thank you for being you.

i can't wait to see what the coming years will bring and can't dream of a better person to experience them with.

- j