Every memory with you feels like a lifetime ago. Your Speedmaster still makes the same
ticking noise, but I can no longer decipher what it says.
In a way, my life stopped at sixteen, but your hands held all the tenderness I have ever had in
my life. Now and again, I try to track you on the radio to see how far long you are on your
resplendent journey on the other side of everything, and I just assume the journey you are
on is long; there is no way for me to know. If you ever want to tell me about it, I am still in
your room grappling with 2018 and trying my best not to sink.
A prominent trend among the urban populace and anyone’s social circle is that, in general, is how most of us care about how our potential romantic interests fit into the pre-existing narrative of our lives, among our friends, what their beliefs are, and so on.
A prominent trend among the urban populace and anyone’s social circle is that, in general, is how most of us care about how our potential romantic interests fit into the pre-existing narrative of our lives, among our friends, what their beliefs are, and so on.
It’s been over a year since I moved cities, and with it, I felt a new sense of longing and loneliness. Previously, I would have dealt with these anxieties and familiar feelings by consuming copious amounts of caffeine or obsessively obsessing over all the things that have gone wrong in the past and the things that could go wrong now
You can grow as a person. Be better or worse. But you can never be a wholly different person. All the shitty things you’ve done will always be a part of you, and you must take responsibility for them forever. Similarly, all the good things you’ve done will be a part of you. Your genetics, environment, surroundings, everything has had an interest in who you’re. You can’t escape determinism and fate and become someone else
In modern society, there is a certain lifestyle that a lot of us seem to pursue, commonly referred to in this article as “living in the present”. We seem to have moved far from the past ideals of working for a more secure future, and made an effort to forsake our past since it only serves to increasingly depress us, and instead we try to completely devote ourselves towards living in the present. This shift in lifestyle comes from the idea of “it’s now or never” being hammered into our heads over the greater part of the past two decades by almost every mainstream..
Twin Peaks first aired on the 8th of April, 1990 in an era where primetime television was mostly dominated by safe, unambitious, and loud sitcoms and soap operas like Cheers, Full House and Dynasty with mostly standalone episodes. In midst of this television culture of shared consciousness and predictable plot lines emerged Twin peaks, with its elements of occultism, irony, horror, soap opera, canned narrative, Lynch’s dream logic, and with a prepossessing cast diddling-about.