#rainberry

[pranjalsaidso]

The secret is to look away,

From the burning castle you build,

And stare into the abyss ahead.

-Pranjal

[pranjalsaidso]

I kill myself a little every day,

’cause they said the world is cruel

and that feelings will weigh you down.

But they didn’t tell me this,

that with grief and anger,

humour and will die too.

— Pranjal

[sweetened--euthanasia]

So I fixed the Rainberry 75% less sugar with (for 30 fluid oz)

3 tablespoon brown sugar

3 ¾ tablespoon white sugar

Whisk it into the cold gatorade as it heats over the stove, pull off as soon as the sugar is almost all dissolved, keep whisking, then pour into a container and cool.

There, rainberry as it should be

[pranjalsaidso]

And nothing happens suddenly. Life is a slow-brewed concoction of mirth, failure, ecstasy, and woe.

-Pranjal

[pranjalsaidso]

Why do we meet people, cats and fall in love.

There is a saying that goes something like this: you like because, and you love despite. You like someone because they are funny, easygoing, and have excellent taste in music; you love someone despite them being messy, loud, and sometimes downright dumb and mean.

In the last week of this fortunate year, I interacted more with cats than with humans. And, to be completely honest, it wasn’t all that bad. I hate losing friends, but just like cats, you can’t always tame them, and most will simply not like you for no apparent reason. Cats and their whimsies.

We meet people to feel jealousy, to learn that our birthstone is garnet and flower carnation and not the other way around. We meet them so we don’t have to pat our own shoulders, so we have one to cry on; so we can laugh while ugly crying; so someone calls us beautiful every single day. So that no two days are the same, and there is someone to share them with. So there is no need to evolve hydra-like self-healing powers. So we can see ourselves through other people’s eyes.

And this is why we meet people, people with varied interests. To learn about football, to develop a taste for foreign music, to learn investing, to fall in love with someone’s strangest laugh. To learn that Kate Moss was the face of Chanel in the ’60s. To take movie recommendations and never watch them. To taste what it feels like to survive in a country other than our own. To make elaborate plans and never follow them. To live each and every cliché. To learn Keanu Reeves' favorite song. To fall in love with one's city. To have a bittersweet relationship with someone's idiosyncratic hobby.

And finally, to sit in the quietest nook possible and casually trauma dumping.

And finally we meet cats to fall in love with.

- Pranjal

[pranjalsaidso]

And it's January again cold and unforgiving, just like the people born in it.

[pranjalsaidso]

What are we? If not a total of our favorite distractions.

[gonggoosh]

genuinely what is this i'm trying to make a crossword and i come across this what do any of the synonyms even mean i cant do this anymore this is messing me up

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