I stayed up until 5 AM yesterday, something I never do. I’ve never been good at staying up late in any context. I would take naps during all-nighters even when cramming for midterms. I never enjoyed obliviating myself with alcohol, though sometimes I still did, like that time during sophomore year Halloween when I threw up partially digested pierogis from Veselka all over K’s guest room.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. I particularly 👏 loved 👏 this passage.
"I saw a Tiktok the other day that made me tear up. It was about how we can still root for people who are no longer in our lives. Like most, I have people I don’t talk to anymore whom I used to be very close with. Some of them I dated. Some of them are friends where the friendship became too thorny or too complicated or too sad. I still think about them a lot. In so many ways their fingerprints are all over me. To be loved is to be changed.
I like the idea that love sometimes means supporting someone from a distance. That their happiness can still be my happiness.
When I think about the people I am close to now, I hope that we can be close forever. But more and more I understand that I’m not the one who gets to choose that. I can only try my best."
love the acknowledgment of unattaching yourself from attachment theory
knowledge about ourselves and others is powerful when we use it to create new reference points for moving towards a higher self and how to love others, not to *should* ourselves into doing things that keep us out of connection with sincerity
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. I particularly 👏 loved 👏 this passage.
"I saw a Tiktok the other day that made me tear up. It was about how we can still root for people who are no longer in our lives. Like most, I have people I don’t talk to anymore whom I used to be very close with. Some of them I dated. Some of them are friends where the friendship became too thorny or too complicated or too sad. I still think about them a lot. In so many ways their fingerprints are all over me. To be loved is to be changed.
I like the idea that love sometimes means supporting someone from a distance. That their happiness can still be my happiness.
When I think about the people I am close to now, I hope that we can be close forever. But more and more I understand that I’m not the one who gets to choose that. I can only try my best."
love the acknowledgment of unattaching yourself from attachment theory
knowledge about ourselves and others is powerful when we use it to create new reference points for moving towards a higher self and how to love others, not to *should* ourselves into doing things that keep us out of connection with sincerity
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