soopastryheart

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard my parents (in addition to every other adult I’ve come across) tell me that time goes by too fast. When you’re young, it always seems like you’re waiting for all the milestones in your life to happen, so “real life” could start. You don’t quite grasp the urgency of time because as far as you’re concerned. you have your whole life ahead of you. As you get older however, your parents’ lamentations start to really resonate, as you find yourself praying harder and more frequently for time to slow down just so you can have a chance to catch up with it.

Like this annual round up (you can see last year’s here). You can count on me to wait for the last day of January to get around to finally posting this.

10. Reasons why I haven’t been posting much lately can be accurately summed up by these five folders on my desktop:

9. Obsessively. Sometimes, it’s the best way to live.

8. Go away, Lindsay Lohan.

7. When I was into them, boybands looked like this:

Now they look like this:

6. You can always love more than you think you can.

5. Sometimes you spend your days and weeks staring at a blank sheet with nothing but the blinking cursor taunting you. Sometimes you spend days where you don’t bother opening Word at all. Sometimes you stop finishing books and instead use them as coasters, collecting coffee rings. Sometimes you spend entire days browsing stupid things on the internet while simultaneously hating the shit out of yourself for doing so. Sometimes you lie awake with unshakeable regret and self doubt that maybe you should have gone to med school and that maybe you have made a huge mistake. That’s okay. It’s okay to have those days, or weeks. All of it is okay as long as you remember to come back. Back to writing. Back to yourself.

4. Please don’t look to celebrities for matters regarding your child’s health/medical decisions. Look at the science. Vaccinate your goddamn kids. Don’t be a shitty parent.

3. Remember the golden rule: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

2. Shame is the heart’s way of telling you that you can always be a better person.

1. Move on.