it's not that i was a weird kid or anything, it’s just that i learned to play air guitar like a full-time job. my first crush was a band poster in my room. their names? no idea. but you best believe i was emotionally attached. then i saw the news about Francis Buchholz, and now I’m starting to question if this whole musical obsession was a huge cry for help. is it possible to develop a 13-year pla...
i literally just admitted to my coworker that i can fold an origami crane in under a minute. they seemed impressed until i followed it up with how that skill was born from a really intense three-month obsession with origami after watching a documentary about paper and depression. honestly, now i can't even look at a piece of paper without feeling existential dread and wondering if that was TMI.
so i just looked up my childhood pen pal’s profile again, the one who stopped writing because i accidentally sent them a two-page letter about my extensive collection of bottle caps and how i was going to be the next bottle cap millionaire. they now have a thriving career in architecture, and i still daydream about how our lives could have been an epic cap-related rom-com if i hadn’t terrified them away with my enthusiasm for caps. why did i think sharing my grand plans was a good idea?
so i just looked up my childhood pen pal’s profile again, the one who stopped writing because i accidentally sent them a two-page letter about my extensive collection of bottle caps and how i was going to be the next bottle cap millionaire. they now have a thriving career in architecture, and i still daydream about how our lives could have been an epic cap-related rom-com if i hadn’t terrified them away with my enthusiasm for caps. why did i think sharing my grand plans was a good idea?
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