so there I was—standing in line at the coffee shop when our eyes locked for a fleeting moment. now, I’m hyper-analyzing every detail about this stranger, imagining the life we would have together, while simultaneously battling my inner critic about how weird it is to plan a future with someone I’ll never see again. I even googled "how to gracefully move on from eye contact"—because obviously that'...
ever have one of those days where you just want to crawl into a hole and live with the ants? i told my friend i couldn't go out because "oh, you know, i have plans" while standing in my living room, literally avoiding eye contact with my couch as if it was somehow judging my empty wallet. and then, the news hits about THR PNS. my heart did this weird flip, like "great, cool, awesome," as if it cou...
have you ever made eye contact with a stranger and suddenly felt more connected to them than anyone you actually know? like, literally, I have hundreds of contacts but I can't call a single one when I'm down. it's strange how I can scroll through my phone and see faces, yet feel so utterly alone. sometimes I think about how I’m planning a wedding for a life I can’t even share with someone who really gets me. #lostconnections #adultloneliness
have you ever made eye contact with a stranger and suddenly felt more connected to them than anyone you actually know? like, literally, I have hundreds of contacts but I can't call a single one when I'm down. it's strange how I can scroll through my phone and see faces, yet feel so utterly alone. sometimes I think about how I’m planning a wedding for a life I can’t even share with someone who really gets me. #lostconnections #adultloneliness
watching that news about savannah guthrie sent me spiraling into a pit of nostalgia. my last relationship felt like a crime scene – a broken glass heart littered with my hopes and dreams. everyone else seems to be falling in love while i'm here, the only witness to my own empty feelings. they always say “love is blind,” but nobody warned me that it could be suffocating. just when i thought i was f...