CafeRituals #3: do we choose loneliness? - by Jacky (:
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maybe the answer to all of this is finding inner peace
talking to the moon There are many nights that I walk back to my dorm Eliot House alone from the Smith student center at midnight, right before they kick us all out of the collaborative commons. It’s become a bit of a routine. I like to guess which finals club threw parties that night and observe the drunken people stumbling out into the chilly Cambridge streets. I walk past them and pick up my pace as I cross the four-way intersection, hoping to miss the cars that fly by at this hour. I also put on my fuzzy earmuffs over my AirPods. I still haven’t gotten used to the cool Boston cold…
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