Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep travelling honestly along life’s path.
Door of Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
National Geographic | July 1972
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.
– Forgive the slightly angsty, teenage quality of this, because this popular advice column—which answers the question: “what I would tell my 20 year old self”—is shiver inducing. Via The Rumpus (via rojospinks)
Émile Hurtré, Architectural Project: Design for a wall decoration with peacock, cranes, and sunflowers, 1896-1898
