Therapy Pt3

this is my type of intimacy🫤🫶

Going to a library together and sitting on the floor between the shelves while they read their favourite book to you is date

hi guys. ik you missed me 🫢

uhoh 😀

how introverts acc feel like (subjective)

us🫡

this exactly represents the office.

mostly my career goals are to hang out with friends and do whatever is funniest in the moment. hope that helps

me too‼️

idk if any more words are needed since it’s penned so perfectly

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

loneliness is fine before it gulps you in, life’s stressful rn and that’s all you need to know ☺️

the way they look at each other 😫