explore everything and graffiti bathrooms and dance in your room and take more pictures and appreciate things like abandoned buildings and old people and what it feels like to get rid of everything you own. learn different languages and dye your hair and go for walks more instead of staying inside and learn everything and read everything, but read things because you want to not because you ‘should.’ don’t stay in one place because the world is far to big and grand and wonderful for that. and get drunk, too, get drunk on the night and everything from whispers to hands on your skin to looking into someone’s eyes to what it feels like to run as fast as you can. and stop rushing so much and just sit on the bus and look at everything and don’t every worry about what the word ‘normal’ means, and stay up late because there are nights that feel like they’re holding all the secrets of yourself and the secrets of everything and something vaguely magical, but also elusive. and don’t forget what these moments feel like, a sort of indescribable wonder and the way words are sometimes just out of your grasp, but that’s okay because you can just feel instead.

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…