social media holiday

i took a social-media holiday this year, from january until the beginning of may, mostly because i began to miss time to be bored in. i'd realized that the biggest problem i had with things like twitter was that time i used to spend in a cab, staring out of the window, being bored, i would now spend being interested in twitter and dealing with my feed. that was great, but there was no bored. i missed that...so i took a holiday to get my boredom back.

-neil gaiman

i am the loneliest person in this subway car

"The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and that: I am the loneliest person in this subway car. Everything here looked ugly: the aqua subway seats; the ads for Goya products, as if a faded color illustration of now-grey guavas in gray syrup could make you want to eat them; the metal rails that had been grasped by thousands of hands that very day; the stations as they flowed past the window. I am having a crisis, she thought, I suddenly feel a new, fragile sense of myself in the world, and it is unbearable."

- Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

c. baudelaire

il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas. - baudelaire

in other words: it seems to me that i will always be happy in the the place where i am not.