flâneur

i'm 23 and annoying - by jessica dai

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life as performance / time ticks forward / who’s steering this ship anyway?

In the last month or so I moved out of the east coast for good after five years; bleached my hair and dyed it pink; got my first tattoo and fourth piercing (or like seventh depending on if you count repiercings); went to Europe for two weeks; spent four days in the woods with no service or wifi. (Would you believe me if I told you that all of those things had been planned before I left a three and a half year relationship?) These days I feel like I’m on a precipice of some sort, like in some way I’ve been living all my life to get here. The conductor’s just raised their baton. The diver’s…

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