annaetc:

If you want to read something good about being in your 20s, read this.

We are not so mysterious. If you want to get to know someone infinitely better, meet their parents for five minutes. We are attracted to people who were loved in the ways we were loved as children. We are attracted to people who are lacking in ways we understand.

I’m also struck by this: “We are all terrified to take our clothing off and equally eager to show our genitals to each other. Do not be so afraid.” I keep coming across that statement over and over, recently in Bernadette Mayer’s “The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica”: “Perhaps there is a life here/Of not being afraid of your own heart beating/Do not be afraid of your own heart beating.” Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. (My life is circular. See: “Come On Baby, What Are You Afraid Of?”)

(Source: lemdi)

Posted at 11:38am and tagged with: twenties, the hairpin, come on baby what are you afraid of,.