Dec. 17th, 2021

flamingsword: “in my defense, I was left unsupervised” (Default)
"When we talk about teenagers, we adults often talk with an air of scorn, of expectation for disappointment. And this can make people who are presently teenagers feel very defensive. But what everyone should understand is that none of us are talking to the teenagers that exist now, but talking back to the teenager we ourselves once were – all stupid mistakes and lack of fear, and bodies that hadn’t yet begun to slump into a lasting nothing. Any teenager who exists now is incidental to the potent mix of nostalgia and shame with which we speak to our younger selves."

In other news, I want to purchase a kalimba for the niece, but I also don’t want to drive my sister to drink. Stills thinking about it, though.

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