Distractions.

[waitingfordoomsday]

will i remember this in a few months? probably not. and i know this. so why does it upset me so much now? how do you lift your mind out of the present and drop it into the future?

[metamorphesque]

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

[metamorphesque]

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[women-loving-art]

Mary Oliver, I don't want to live a small life, from Red Bird

[cronenburger]

“One day the sadness will end.

But I don’t think today’s the day.”

David Lynch

[embeccy]

"The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now."

- Haruki Murakami

[waitingfordoomsday]

i don't remember how to express myself

i don't remember how to have real fun

i don't remember how to be present

i am a robot in a world where we stare at robots all day and have robots in our hands and underneath our feet and in our ears

where is the sound of the earth?

[metamorphesque]

The Pomegranate Trees, William Saroyan

[waitingfordoomsday]

if you wanted to, you would

[waitingfordoomsday]

[primulaceas]

Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

[waitingfordoomsday]

v important: there is a difference between feeling needed and valued

[waitingfordoomsday]

Thinking about if I’m the same person I always was, how much I’ve changed. I feel like the voice in my head has always felt consistent. Like a recognizable tone and tenor and style. And I think that is enough to say I’m the same person ive always been

[unteachings]

it still comes as a surprise that closeness cannot be achieved from a safe distance

[sprouttheambassador]

running errands like kurt vonnegut

[sprouttheambassador]

⬆️ like so

[derangedrhythms]

Also, as I was finding, this dimming season sharpens one. The trees are bare. Spirits stir in the stripped branches. November supposedly renders thin the veil.

Louise Erdrich, from 'The Sentence'

[metamorphesque]

― E.M. Forster, Howards End

[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]