Listening to dreamy bands that have song titles full of words like summer and daydream and gold and roses and trees (Craft Spells, Wild Nothing, Seapony, Beach Fossils, CANT, Bleached, Widowspeak, Gauntlet Hair, Blouse, Big Troubles). Thinking about: sitting in the rain, pic ‘n’ mix, the palpable fear of someone who seemed so secure and enthusiastic about life.

Two people said I was wise/mature yesterday. I visited Big Ben at 1am this morning. Just because you’re a clock tower, that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends.

I have been thinking about how people live and the things that ultimately dictate people’s happiness, and how I’ve become so endlessly content relatively recently, like a little dancing piece of dust in a wide sunbeam. Nothing upsets me any more, not for long. Things that would have made me heartbroken and sick two years ago barely make an impact on my exhalations now. I think it’s important to recognise and record anything that I know has been influential in bringing me to this state of mind and way of thinking and living. It’s really beautiful and great and wonderful and I wish to feed it and cuddle it and encourage it forever.

For example, I take this piece of Julian Barratt’s early stand up quite seriously as life advice:

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Here are some more things that I have been thinking and smiling about:

“In the world through which I travel I am endlessly creating myself” - Mikko Kuorinki, “wall piece with 200 letters”

“You are a perishable item. Live accordingly.” - (x)

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.” - Miranda July

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” - Deepak Chopra

“I honestly can’t remember half the things we talked about. But it was nice. Really nice.” - (x)

“The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is also true for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.” - Michel Foucault

“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.”
- D. Young 

- unadoptable

“Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance” - Jenny Holzer

Today I am relaxing. Tomorrow I’m going to wander around central London with a friend. I’m going to draw tiny pencil pictures in a tiny book. I like miniature things.