Things Are Going To Be Difficult. But You

by Yulya Lapteva

“You don’t need a perfect relationship. All you need is someone who loves your weirdness, wants to spend time with you and respects you.”

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The Hague, Netherlands: Spanish street musician Borja Catanesi and the 68 year old dancer from The Hague mr Roland Parijs

All of Larkin Poe’s recent covers have been home runs.... but somehow this is the best one yet

in that mood where nothing I look at to read is quite the thing I want but not quiiiiite irked enough about it to write it my damn self

a story in 3 parts

Whoever did this stole my idea and I seek to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law

Slight problem

I have bed bugs and not the 4-wheeled kind

I'm about to die

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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”