#life etc

[jackaldandy]

dejándolo todo en el reci del Pibe Materia, la mejor banda de La Plata

[emeralddoeadeer]

May in photos...

Thanks for the tag, @isahorcrux <3 Loved seeing your May adventures and your beautiful boy Percy!

Mr Doe's damn good Danish pastries, matcha catch-up with a friend who's usually hundreds of miles away, lilies in bloom, the fawns frolicking on a forest walk, People Make Glasgow, IKEA!, saved search screen to share self-diagnosed injury (opted not to post the bruised toes).

No pressure tagging, if you're interested: @aidanchaser @theesteemedladydebourgh @ghostofbambifanfiction @possessingtheproperspirit @lidiyuhhh

[vap3princ3ss]

Needed a chilll sunny day like today; bought 4 new books & played stardew & went to a concert & ate a street hot dog & lazed around w the bestie in between in all 😌👌🏼

[nondairyqueen]

i gotta say one thing about being an adult is it's fun to be an expert in stuff

[a-l-l-e-y-r-o-s-e]

The person who used to be your best friend? You didn't see them all summer. They just posted on Instagram and there's not a picture of you.

The boy you thought you were in love with? He's happily moved on and sometimes you still wonder if it could have worked. It's not attraction or desire, it's guilt.

The girl you started at in Geography last year texted you, and you didn't respond because you didn't realize she still thought of you. Now it's too late to text back.

Your parents, they don't love you like they used to love you. They yell more than they have conversations with you anymore.

But you know what else?

Your current best friend is making you matching bracelets.

You have a right to move on.

Maybe you'll see that girl again, or maybe you'll find another one.

You're gonna move out one day and your relationship with your parents will heal. Or maybe it won't, but you will.

Life isn't defined by bad moments, it's defined by the good ones.

[bermudianabroad]

Also, (if you don’t mind sharing) I’d be curious to know the countries you have lived in. As someone who has only ever lived in one state I’m always curious when someone’s life has spanned countries.

Not at all!

Born in Bermuda and grew up there; left at sixteen for school in the UK (England and Scotland to get specific, and bounced around a lot of different places: Glouscestershire, Staffordshire, Kent, Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders, South London), then Hong Kong for just over a year and then Bilbao, Spain for just under.

Then I did a bunch of longish term residential teaching/studying gigs in Oxford and Granada, so while I didn't technically live there, I was there for a month or so and the pace of life felt more like living than visiting/sightseeing if you feel me.

Been in this current apartment since 2018 and it's the longest I've been in a single place since I left home. Odd realisation. I still have the 'living out of a suitcase' mindset and really struggle when it comes putting my own touch on a place in a way that makes it a home.

Also because my family is still in Bermuda or Scotland, sometimes the ephemera I did acquire over the years with the intention of Doing Something With It when I settled is exactly where I'm not. (Or exactly the opposite of my partner's tastes which is a whole other thing.)

The other thing about living in such different places is how much of yourself takes them with you elsewhere. There's always something to miss or be grateful for having experienced (and that's not a unique thing to having lived abroad, but I think those things can take unexpected shapes). There are particular sights/sounds/smells from one place that pop up in another and it's oddly dislocating but also kind of wonderful because it can transport too.

Eventually I'll go back to Bermuda, especially since my parents are heading into their 80s, but also because I miss it. And also because I do want to give back to the community that raised me, in whatever way I can.

[bermudianabroad]

What a year this month has been.