04/18/2026
i think about how much of life passes us by because we’re braced for it. we feel more in two hours of a film than we let ourselves feel in a week of real life. but then there are these moments — unplanned, unguarded — where the guard just drops. and suddenly the sadness is actually sad, the joy actually reaches you, the longing means something. the beauty and the ache of being alive, at the same time.
