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they are facing aging alone in a world that is built for the young. they have stories to share and oftentimes no one to share them with. show them grace (remember the world has changed immensely since they were young), and have a cup of tea.
i read the my brilliant friend series 6 years ago and a few quotes hit me like a ton of bricks and have been living in the notes app since then:
"the world has changed tremendously and belongs more and more to them, less and less to me..."
"Now I was distressed that nothing of me would endure through time..."
"Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclined towards obscurity, not clarity."
Feb 12, 2025
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I don’t mean this in a dark or morbid way – it’s just truly a great reality check. Time is precious. (And if you’re dealing with death or loss, I like to recommend The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke – a lovely collection of Rilke’s correspondences with bereaved friends and acquaintances during times of mourning).
Mar 23, 2023
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I watched my brother die of cancer at 22 when I was twelve, as well as my uncle of brain cancer and a few other members of my family. I then had a similar type of rare sarcoma cancer that my brother did when i was 20, and I was just talking to friends about this last night!
I think the most powerful thing we can do as humans is understand our mortality. Once we understand that we're just meat sacks with no universal truth beside death, we can exist in a manner that aligns with meaningful connection.
I advise you tell people things you need to tell them, whether you love them or you think something they're doing is not serving them.
Be justified and trusting in all your decisions for yourself because you have to now.
I'm so sorry this is coming as a shock to you so suddenly. this is hard shit to reckon with at first. But just like my brother said while being interviewed on CNN during our MLB ballpark tour raising awareness in '06:
"I live every day like I'm dying"
Jul 25, 2024
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i wanted to get back into making art but felt intimidated by drawing and painting…so i opted for this. it was the most fun i have had in a while and i will def keep making more, i think i did pretty good for my first time
Apr 6, 2025
smoke a blunt. say goodbye to ur lover that you have been with every day for three years. fight back tears and weed paranoia. get lost as soon as you walk into the airport. run into ur partners cheating ass homeboy at his tsa job. get ur hair stuck in ur bag and have a tsa agent get it unstuck. get ur sunscreen and bugspray confiscated. drop your half gallon metal water bottle in the middle of the walkway and spill it everywhere. have your eyebrows bleached so you forget and wonder why everyone is looking at you crazy all day.
i am a survivor.
May 18, 2025
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