Yasuko Nagai, 1987
girls and the inherent loneliness they have felt all their lives
the stitches in my arm look cool i feel like a pirate
relationships, friendships, family members, co-workers, i notice it almost every day
they should really warn you ahead of time about how much of adult life hinges on being able to navigate other Ppls childhoods. Like lot of the time in order to complete a task or even just communicate effectively you need to get a sense of ‘wtf happened to this guy in high school’
please don’t spend your life convincing yourself that love or joy is reserved for the idealized version of you that only exists in the future
Everything passes
i think it’s an interesting setting for bruce springsteen songs but at the end of the day i’m glad america isn’t a real place
a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get
i bet positive thinking goes so hard when youre a normal person