friendship

If you don’t feel the urge to give unsolicited advice then maybe you don’t care enough to give it. Maybe you remain passive out of apathy, and maybe that’s okay. But this reluctance is a sorry excuse for not making an effort when it comes to people and things we say we care about.

Every birthday is a portrait of girlhood and growing up in the intolerable twilight of our teenagedom.

She didn’t know what had happened, exactly. She knew that she had broken something, or that Cece had broken something. In any case, something was broken between the two.

A snacking cake is a cake you can make using just one bowl — it takes roughly ten minutes, and then you put it into a little pan, and it bakes for about 40 minutes. In less than an hour, you can have a delicious cake that’s not too rich or sweet and perfect for cutting little slivers off of every time you go into the kitchen.

Nicknames are a great example of connotative meaning in action, as words like “moo” and “potato” mean something different to my family regardless of what they mean in practice.

I’m sorry for dragging you away from the rest of the party and making you talk to me about life as we walked the expanse of the beach shore. Thank you for making life feel less lonely than the people we happen to be.

My new goal is to focus more on romancing the people who I already love. My family and friends are plenty worthy of a little wooing, and the world could do with a little more platonic love.

As much as I love my own major, I equally cherish being able to build my knowledge of other fields and seeing them through my friends’ perspectives, which makes me appreciate the versatility of the human mind.

So, what better way to spread gratitude and joy than to share with all of you what I’ve been feeling grateful for, whether it’s big or small?

I think I find myself on the verge of tears at concerts for two reasons. One is just the mere fact that all these people have come together to witness this one artist or group. The second is that I often associate moments of my life with music.