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feeling like the luckiest girl in the world after celebrating my best friendās birthday early today, & I was listening to landslide by fleetwood mac which had me thinking about how i have mostly built my life around women. i wrote a lil something about it on my finsta (lol) because i just felt like it in the moment. this is too raw to me for say a platform like substack or my main insta but in the spirit of being honest and authentic on this platform i feel safe for it to land here :-) if you see this i hope you tell your best friend you love them today
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Today is my friendās birthday.
I wrote her a love letter text.
I rewrote Frank oharas āhaving a coke with youā and posted that along with a spam of photos and videos.
I commissioned a drawing of us.
For my other dear Aquarius friend this week, I texted her at 12am Hawaii time but 5am New York time. I still was one of the first to wish her happy birthday. I always am. She said that means a lot to her and that it is special to have someone that loves you and loves you so much. And I similarly love being loved by her.
I make a big public and private statement of love for all my friends birthdays.
Because they deserved to be loved quietly and subtly and privately as well as loudly and publicly and for everyone to witness.
I love being loved by my friends. And love isnāt a frivolous word to me. Their love makes me feel powerful. I feel blessed to be loved by them. It makes life worthwhile. And so Iām never embarrassed to shout loudly about our love on the anniversary of them gracing the earth for the first time.
My friends are the only place I feel at home.
Abundance can sometimes be good and sometimes be bad, but feeling abundance and loving abundantly is holding gratitude for the small pleasantries in life, one of which is having a cherry coke everytime im with my friend chai.
Feb 16, 2024
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showing ur genuine love is very brave !! my friends make me feel like the luckiest person alive, they help me 2 grow, learn n trust ppl. i am the most greatful 5eva thank u friends.
Jan 23, 2024
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Maybe even too much!!
Iām really big on platonic declarations of love and devotion. I love my friends so much and it is truly such a joy to know each and every one of them and I never want any of them to doubt that for even a second. Like, love and friendship are genuinely all we have at the end of the day and how beautiful is it that we get to love and be loved???
Mar 19, 2025
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I think 10 year old addy wouldāve passed out if sheād known that she would come to own this in 13 yearsā¦you can take the girl out of bikini bottom but you canāt take bikini bottom out of the girl
Apr 23, 2025
i know it sounds so clichĆ© but i work for a climate organisation & i just came home from a work event so iām feeling very inspired/energised/refreshedā¦please find your community because it is tiring, draining, & almost impossible to drive social change alone. you donāt have to do it alone.
A community helps your cause. We protest, meet, rally, & cry in numbers for this reason. š
Jun 29, 2024
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i really also think about how much boys are taught ways to perform masculinity & how it is legitimised through tangible things like building a career etc but with women i find that from a young age our identity, behaviours, & thoughts are always spoken about in relation to other people/things ā gender roles within the family, how weāre perceived by men, our friendships with other women, our relationships with material things etc etc ā and this shows up in the labels that women are often given too! so and so is someoneās daughter, girlfriend, wife, mother etc etc. i envy the freedom of boyhood so much, the freedom to just be (this is not to discount the toxicity of traditional masculinity, i just think that boys are still afforded more āplayā and therefore have more opportunities to develop their sense of self).
maybe i am also biased because of how iāve grown up & whatnot but i never really understood what it meant to quote unquote be a woman or perform femininity. i only saw this modelled within my nurturing friendships with women as iāve gotten older but when i was younger, in church it was always āok well donāt do this or that because x y z will happen to men if you doā or within my extended family it was often āare you seeing anyone? when are you having kidsā. damn what happened to asking about how iām doing or what my dreams are!!!
long rant sorry !! but thatās my long winded way of saying āi feel youā haha
Jun 28, 2024