flâneur

eating the fire

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(there’s a gif above this paragraph that you might not be able to see in your email reader so consider opening on substack if that’s the case? this is a sequel to YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT OR YOU CAN JUST GET OLD; that post was about a general vibe and this post is about specific blockers / directions) in the five months from september to january i didn’t meet a single new person i liked in sf. then in february and early march i ran into a handful of new people, all of whom i could see myself becoming close friends with. it was a jarring shift. i was happy for an entire month, not because of the hangouts but because of what they represented: every once in a while i meet new people who remind me that there are so many more friends waiting to be discovered, that i haven’t seen everything there is to see, that the world is not ending. i think that’s really important. i didn’t realize how completely my faith in strangers had been depleted until after it was restored here’s what scarcity fe

(there’s a gif above this paragraph that you might not be able to see in your email reader so consider opening on substack if that’s the case? this is a sequel to YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT OR YOU CAN JUST GET OLD; that post was about a general vibe and this post is about specific blockers / directions) in the five months from september to january i didn’t meet a single new person i liked in sf. then in february and early march i ran into a handful of new people, all of whom i could see myself becoming close friends with. it was a jarring shift. i was happy for an entire month, not because…

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