HeyJaredCrazy Brain
thoughts of a 20-something trying to figure out her life by making chaotic decisions and oversharing
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The Pai Hole (opens the original)
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Everyone’s eyes are glazed over here. A massage parlor has a sign on the door, “no sex massage.”There’s a video circulating of an Israeli girl yelling at a local shop keeper about how the Thai people wouldn’t be able to live without their support. There is an Israeli man sitting on the street playing a handpan with a cup for money sitting in front of him. A barefooted white guy walks through the night market, hand in hand with a local woman. I wonder who can’t live without who.The air is thick w
I Can Go Anywhere in the World (opens the original)
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“I didn’t expect you to come back so soon.”“Me neither.”I was sitting in a hostel in Lubuan Bajo, surrounded by friends, most of whom I had known for a few days, when I charged my card the ungodly amount that one pays for a ‘last-minute’ international flight.They ask me how I feel. Most of them are long term travelers: they understand the need to flee to the place they fled in the first place.“I feel like I want to cry, but I also feel an immense amount of relief.”I
Stranger in a Strange Land (opens the original)
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It’s been nearly seven months since I’ve left. Last year I had been gone eight months before I went home. Still, here I am going home again in late summer. The air will still be hot and dry and I will once again return to a life that has never felt quite mine.I will go home to the same mountains and their late summer wildfire warnings. My dad will make a comment, everyday, about how dry it is here. I will walk the dog and I will go to the cafe I’ve been going to for years, but this time they wil
More Unhinged Travel Advice (opens the original)
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My friend Jamie and I did some boots-on-the-ground journalism and asked our travel friends, and ourselves, for the most unhinged travel advice. From hostel relationship advice, to knowing when to not trust a fart, we heard it all– some beyond unhinged.To be honest, lately I’ve fit the mold of a classic SEA backpacker. You know the type: partying and eating at western cafes more than I’d like to admit. I might not always be proud of it, but here I am wearing it on my chest and admitting that this
Kissing is Scary (opens the original)
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My mom says my first kiss was in preschool. She says it was a boy named Nick. I have no recollection of him or “kissing” (whatever kissing meant at that age). I do know we ran into him in a cafeteria-style restaurant in another town years later when I was a teenager and my mom expected me to be excited. I just wanted to run away.And run away is what I did. From all the other kisses, all the other apparent first kisses. All the kisses I would continue to not count.I do not remember the name of th
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