being in your early twenties is like [grocery shopping alone] [having instant noodles for dinner] [remembering random details about that one friend you haven’t spoken to in five years] [feeling overwhelming guilt for every purchase that isn’t strictly “necessary”] [having midday naps] [finding out through facebook that the girl who was mean to you in high school has a husband and a baby] [falling a little in love with every stranger on public transport] [pretending you’re not afraid of being alone] [wondering when you’ll feel like a fully realized person] [listening to bands you liked in middle school] [blinking and it’s suddenly december] [failing to imagine yourself ten years from now] [feeling like you’re running out of time]
Think it’s disturbing that like 12-18 year olds call like puberty and changing a glow up like acting like being awkward looking when you’re a literal fucking child is some permanent stage of Being Unforgivably Ugly and a normal natural shift of literally just maturing and developing ?? Is viewed thru and retroactively performed thru this lens of complete screen/image distortion — because this is a direct product of these kids growing up completely breastfed on access to screens and the internet and social media stars who get procedures done way too young and with endless feeds of this girls and women who are altered surgically to literally live in front of a lens. It is psychotic and terrifying
