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Literally, just into another room. Figuratively, just into another corner of the mind. When it gets to be all too much, introduce a movement in some new direction, and if the thing you’re trying to get away from follows you, consider locking the door. Or enlisting a handy person to help you board it up. (That handy person could be you and a YouTube tutorial.)
Feb 15, 2025
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My most recent example of misanthropy (love this word), the one that probed my Ex to label me as such over the phone, is my current chosen state of extended solitude. Over a month ago, during a bad night’s sleep, I woke up at 3AM and decided to pack a couple suitcases and get on the next flight out of LAX. I ended up in Mexico City, where I don’t know a soul and can’t speak the language. I just had an intense desire to be alone and away from (mostly) everyone I know. And now I’ve been here for weeks and weeks, completely alone outside of a couple short visits from some good and trusted friends. And so, what I would like to recommend to you is the act of leaving. Leaving everything behind you when you need to. And you probably need to or have needed to or will need to. So just do it, leave! Leave your home, the place you live, wherever it is, as often as you can, whenever the impulse strikes, if you have the lifestyle that offers you that privilege. Get on a plane, get in your car, rent a hotel. Go somewhere, anywhere, that makes you feel a little apprehensive at first, somewhere new that you’ve never been, or somewhere far away that you know well and that you love. Go to see others, or go to be alone, but go for longer than you think you should. If you try to think of reasons not to leave, you won’t, so don’t consider any of them, don’t think about it at all. You will never regret it. And if you can’t get on a plane and go to another country near or far, if you have a solid job like a normal decent person, or something seriously tethering you to one place… Then get up from whatever you are doing and go somewhere else. Start walking to a park or drive to some neighborhood you’re not familiar with and spend time alone there. Explore your unfamiliar surroundings. Just forge an escape plan, suddenly and without thought, whatever it is or whatever it looks like, and just do it….
Oct 13, 2022
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you can literally just go! amazing
Nov 29, 2024
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feel the rain on your skin and the hot broth within the baguette of a banh mi! yummy juicy warming munchies
Feb 1, 2025
To say to myself, “I made it.” To show someone else later. To convince myself I’ll have the opportunity to show someone else later, that I made it, even if I never do. (Planes are still the safest form of travel.)
Mar 4, 2025
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be queer! kiss everyone! experience gender every which way possible!
i am a boy, i am a girl, i am everything and nothing at the same time and how amazing is that??
to be queer is to celebrate humanity for all it is and can be!
being queer is a solid 100000/10, you should definitely check it out
Feb 1, 2025
