I love working here, and I love reading what people write here even more.
I felt very ~seen~ by this article.
Excerpt:Make it to the bathroom.
Ryan Morse
Feel proud of yourself for getting this far.
Wash your face with cold water.
Feel a little more awake afterwards.
Life shouldnt be built around whats safe, it should be built around whats worth the risk.
This essay Chrissy wrote perfectly encapsulates that exact notion.
Excerpt:I am on an adventure that I chose and planned and paid for.
I am going to do exactly what I feel like doing for all the days stretched out before me.
I maybe am not (aka: am absolutely not) quite there, but Im trying.
Excerpt:I am slowly learning what it means to be human.
What it means to make mistakes and learn from them.
What it means to be both happy and sad at the same time.
I am slowly learning how to do the damn work.
How to stop running from what is heavy and uncomfortable in my life.
How to take the easy route less and less.
How to grow myself, how to be a better person.
Excerpt:We meet up in Los Angeles.
He holds my hand in the back of the Uber.
We talk about poetry and music.
I really like him.
But what if its not enough?
What if I only fall in love at a distance?
Excerpt:Youre sitting in between two boys and you love both of them.
They look through you, the glass window in a burning room.
Its ironic that panic buttons cease to matter when everythings already up in flames.
Ari writes the way she speaks, and she writes in a relatable, accessible way.
Her poetry makes me feel like poetry is for me too, and thats what a great writer does.
I dont know many people who are better at putting a positive spin on things than Heidi Priebe.
I like the nasty weather because it reminds us of how human we all are.
I really appreciated how candid Katie was talking about her relationship with drinking.
To repeat what I said earlier, felt very ~seen~ by this.
Excerpt:Isnt anxiety the price you pay for success?
Isnt that what gets you there in the first place?
The voice in your head that tells you that its not enough?
That you gotta keep going?
That you are not there yet so dont you dare quit?
Talking To People In My Life Is Absolutely Exhausting Now, When Did That Happen?
That bad things dont appear out of nowhere and who you are will rarely, if ever, shift.
Excerpt:Is this a rite of passage once youve left your early twenties?
To feel exhausted from talking to almost every single person on this planet?
When Chrissy writes this way shes amazing at coming from this place of vulnerability gently.
It doesnt come with a demand for attention, its not greedy, its not attention-seeking or self-absorbed.
But by writing it exactly like that, in that gentle way, shes encouraging me todojust that.
Which is, yet again, why I look up to her so much.
Excerpt:Being good to people feels very sturdy.
Being good to myself feels like I am a baby.
I feel guilty about needing it.
Especially post-election and in an era where everything feels tumultuous and out of control and unpredictable and sad.
In this essay Kim beautifully said how exhausting just existing is sometimes.
Because at the end of the day, were all just trying to be humans.
And being a human is really, really hard.
Excerpt:I feel a lot of things.
I dont know anything.
Sometimes I am filled with joy.
I am worried about the world.
I am just trying to be a person.
That to have stability, youre going to have to give up some semblance of dreaming.
Excerpt:But time has no conscience.
Time is not your ally.
There isnt this big show of oh my feelings have changed, goodbye forever.
Usually, its quiet.
Its in missed texts and purposefully falling asleep on the couch alone.
And when you watch it happen?
Excerpt:Day 8.I cut my hair.
I cut my hair with the hopes that it might save us.
I cut my hair.
You said I looked better.
That was a relief.
But thats one of the reasons I like her work so much.
I dont know, Im rambling.
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He paid youApril 4, 2017
Love me pls?
20 Honest Signs Your Relationship Is Probably Over by Tommy Paley
Satire is tricky.
Its really, really entertaining and what quality humor writing should be.
Excerpt:We should get coffee sometime.
My favorite way to whisper secrets is over a cup of coffee.
Especially while eating macaroons.
Have you ever heard of Laduree?
Im Pregnant (On Purpose!)
Excerpt:So its official.
I am a woman whos had an abortion, and it doesnt really matter why.
Maybe well become harder to ignore.
Excerpt:The Tinder guy who messaged me saying, Thick thighs save lives.
But then, I was just entirely enthralled by it.
Youre not supposed to admit that sometimes youre lucky, because thats not taking control of your destiny.
There are all of these things that were supposed to do and honestly?
Sometimes I am paralyzed by the supposed tos in life.
I was/am really proud of Ari for writing this.
Im really proud shes my friend.
Excerpt:Because if you fail after getting so many chances, itll be sad.
Itll be a total waste.
Because if you succeed after getting so many chances that others didnt, do you even deserve it?
Do you understand the severity?
That here you dont believe in a higher power but clearly something keeps rewarding you?
