Don’t wait for fear to go away before you go after something you want.

 

Christine Hassler

From: What I Would Tell My 20-Something Self

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.

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #91: A Big Life

If you’re freaking out about student loans, or rumbling inside about the people you know who seem to draw all the good straws, read this for some perspective.

friends.

“We all need an emotional airbag, sometimes”.