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nixscriptum

here we go.

i’m holding something fragile in my hands.

like plants in need of repotting

the roots suspended

between a pot that could smother them

and the earth that could nourish them.

my affection for you has grown too big

for their original, tentative holding place.

i’m holding all my fears and feelings

in my hands suspended

waiting

hoping your hands will take them

and weed out the worry

and allow my affection to grow.

here we go.

#love #poem #poetry #spilling ink #personal #words #spilled feelings #spilled poem #7/10/22 #d2022

tough-girl9

I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it.

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.

oopsabird

I just realized that the original meme is also, quite accidentally, basically describing the principle behind….. escape rooms.

You know, the recent popular trend in participatory entertainment in which thousands of millennials literally go out and pay money to voluntarily be locked in a room where they have to solve puzzles under a time pressure, often using antiquated or analog technology, secret codes, and mechanisms they don’t yet understand, all without using their phones/the internet. For fun.

For many of us, that’s not panic-inducing, that’s just our idea of an enjoyable Saturday night out with some friends!

Now I’m just laughing even harder.

i want whirlwind

i want swept off my feet

i want head over heels

i want intensity and passion

i want soft and tender

but most of all

i don’t want to be the only one

falling in love

i want safety

i want to be caught

#love #personal #spilled feelings #spilled words #spilled ink #poem #falling in love #first time #10.6.2020

ihateiu

mapledre-deactivated20191006

how are these niggas still friends lmao

wnq-writers

I didn’t want to see you again. I didn’t want to hear your voice again. I didn’t want to miss that smile again. I didn’t want you again. But I still wished you well, maybe because hell, what I wanted was not what I needed.

Loneshit (via wnq-writers)

wordsnquotes

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn’t going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood (via wnq-writers)