HeyJaredam i too late?
thoughts on friendship, feeling left behind, and how to finish a clown show
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Is all this sickness making us healthier? (opens the original)
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Last week, the morning after my cousins wedding, I sat in a hot tub at 9,600 feet trying to force my lungs to drag in any oxygen they could. The thin dry air and my asthma were at odds. A few times a year growing up I would drive north to Tahoe, preparing for the inevitable bloody nose and wind chapped lips that accompanied the dry, pine scented air. Tahoe is a lower elevation than the Rocky mountains and I didn’t have asthma back then, but I assumed it would be about the same. Instead I watched
What to read this summer? (opens the original)
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I’ve been punishing myself for my screen addiction, for not having the fortitude or the stamina to withstand the call of the little black box of information that’s always refreshing itself with its never ending scroll. With each thought and piece of information I sluggishly accept into my eye holes I worry I’m losing motivation to think and produce on my own. The orchestrators of these addiction machine intend for their marks (us) to be less discerning and thoughtful. It’s much easier to sell to
Eight years later, still in NYC. (opens the original)
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I arrived in upper Manhattan at the height of summer 2018, set to occupy a shoebox room in a 5th floor walkup building with two roommates who were both gone that week. The rent was $600 more per month than the room I had in my small college town and about a third of the size. I took it sight unseen, trusting the friend I was moving in with that it was the best I could do. My high school best friend (and future roommate) lived 8 blocks away and I could escape up to Maine to visit friends. At the
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