stopped by my mom's, with Santi, to drop off some food. her apt is on the top floor at the end of a long ass corridor. A speedwaking Santi supplicates me to do the same. "Come on!" he says. To which I respond, "My steps are too loud. Don't wanna disturb the neighbors"... realizing such a comment derives from my habitual people pleasing and need to shrink, I correct myself, telling him instead "but I exist and take up space" and proceed to speedily fee-fi-fo-fom my ass down the hall. Don't bequeath your insecurities to the children!
lol poor thing probably thinks it's executing a trick and is expecting food. SAD. free them!
This is my song!
A size 9? I wear a size 6, bitch, are you crazy?
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
- the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
- taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
- at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
- 'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65
- it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
- it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
- you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
- young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
- there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big