media consumption

I’m glad this made me realize that I didn’t fall victim to this epidemic

“I am not my mind. My mind is an aspect of me that I can choose to observe without judgement. I am the observer of my mind, the captain of my soul and my body is my vessel. We are so much more than our minds, and there is so much more of life that exists outside [our minds]. Look around you, that is life. My point is: do not allow your mind and your past to rob you of what you have now- the present.“

“It makes me feel as though I’m only here to love, but never to be loved in return. That it’s my fault for loving so deeply, and that no one is obligated to love me, let alone yearn for me. In full honesty, I’m still working out how I feel about it. I believe that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved, but do I really? Is that a philosophy that I’ve convinced myself of so that I can believe I didn’t get destroyed for nothing? I don’t know, but at the end of the day, 1) who truly knows? And 2) despite it all, I still continue to love with every fiber in my body despite all the pain I've felt, so I must live by it to some degree.” so, you just pulled these thoughts straight from my head.

“If I am lucky enough to grow old, I will certainly be happy to have at least a small piece of proof that I was once young and naive, that I loved without conditions in spite of my better judgement, and that I was brave enough to hold hard, and to let go, and to go on. There is no sense in wishing that I wouldn't have held so hard. Or in wishing that I would've held harder. There is no sense in resenting that my logic is often scrambled by an abundance of optimism. There is no sense in a lot of things, but there is always a lesson to be learned.“

“What a privilege it is to have loved somebody so much that their absence cuts me so deeply.”

“It’s like we’ve created a bond that’s stronger than any text, any voice note, any smile. It’s the bond of absence. Of not knowing but still feeling. And maybe that’s the purest form of connection there is. So I’ll leave it there. Silent, but somehow, still intimate.”

“That said, I think what makes people magnetic is that they are genuinely absorbed, they don’t wait for an audience to validate their attention because they’re already full of it. So go ahead, do something - do it badly, do it beautifully, do it silently. Do whatever, as long as it pokes at your interest and satisfies you whenever you get down to it.”

so it really is my damn phone

we love crying in this household

I need to watch more Taylor Russel movies.

had to revisit this classic

“Nonetheless, character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.” “To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.”