flâneur

the art of not being ready and doing it anyway

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go sail that ship, the sea is calling: an essay

if i could go back and talk to my younger self, i would hold his face and tell him to experience everything. go even when you are not ready. do not wait for the right moment. it is not coming. you are never going to be ready. and i think that is the thing nobody actually sits with long enough. we say it. we nod at it. we screenshot it and move on. but we don’t actually believe it. and you know weirdly the waiting feels so reasonable. that’s the thing. somehow it never feels like fear. it feels like preparation. you wanted to learn the language. you’ve wanted to for years. you told yourself…

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