Do you ever realize that you haven’t breathed in a while, and then you feel like you’re about to die because you need air?
This was actually meant literally, but then I thought about it metaphorically, and my mind started to slowly unravel and my friend asked if I was okay.
Do things because you care about the people you’re doing them for.
Sounds like something you’d see on Pinterest or in an email from your aunt and think about deeply until you delete the email. Not to say I’m on Pinterest. Right. Ah. Let’s move on.
How inspiring can something unattainable be?
Talking with a friend about Rhodes Scholars and how much better they are than us.
Keep your guard up. Stay angry.
Tim Riggins said this to a baby in season four of Friday Night Lights. Words to live by. Makes me wish I was a stud high school full back in Texas.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Okay, admittedly, Nietzsche said this. But a professor said this after someone kept saying witty shit without actually saying anything. Nietzsche – that dude was onto something.
(‘14, History/Creative Writing, Editor-at-Large) is from Cleveland, Ohio and writes fiction.