birthdays are so much fun because my brain is always like okay u have three options: cry, panic attack or feel numb and unreal the whole day
The "kids are on their damn phones all the time" conversation has changed in an extremely significant way and I'm not sure people realize it. When kids had flip phones, and even in the early days of smartphones, kids were using their phones to text each other. It was part of an active social life. Now they're using their phones more and more to consume content from influencers or other accounts. It's more passive and it's increasingly what people are doing instead of socializing with each other. This applies to adults too, I just keep thinking about high school students.
Green Path
we need to slow down a little I'm so serious. all these quick short videos on tiktok, ig reels, and youtube, artists releasing quick little songs for the trend, tv shows releasing episodes at once, people using chat gpt and google ai overview because they get answers quickly but no validation done for the source, we need to sloww downn i really do not think our brains should be running this fast
sleeping fields, december 2021
shot on 35mm film
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"
its okay for others to misunderstand you and your intentions. it is inevitable actually