Notes to Self

Studying personal wisdom this finals week

I have a final exam in less than one hour, which means I should probably be reviewing my course material. Instead, I've embarked on a grand tour of my notes app, the place where I collect on-the-go thoughts I don't have time to write out properly. If my exam covered life instead of accounting, this would be my study guide.

• A plain white tee never fails.

• God speaks in subtle ways: an ocean breeze, flowers pushing through concrete, a break in the clouds.

• You can’t hate yourself into a version of yourself that you love.

• A full dinner table is infinite.

• We have discovered teleportation. It’s a good book.

• We build the boxes we’re trapped in.

• Why was my bag of salt and vinegar chips 50% air?

• I don’t regret regret.

• I want a busy life with slow moments.

• “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”

• The early evening sun highlights all the places we forget to notice.

• “Life is the best party I’ve ever been invited to.”

• I’m a believer in dressing up for no reason.

• One day, I’m going to paint a room in overalls, just for the hell of it.

• Here’s to hand-holding.

• It’s not going to be perfect, but it can be the beginning of something close to it.

• I’m glad life did that.

• Each morning, I indulge in a cup of ambition.

• I always leave a bookstore with the sad reminder that I will never read everything I want to.

• Being on the other side of an excuse is hard, but enlightening.

• Color calls, I listen.

• Music makes me die and come alive all at once.

• “Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”

• Bring back walking with urgency.

Turns out, I’ve spent this hour studying after all :)