The fresh-grad syndrome
“What do you have in mind after you graduate?”
What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I’d be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
“I don’t really know,” I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.
It sounded true, and I recognized it.
—The Bell Jar
sixteenyellowribbons:betweenthestars:alicette:analyticalasshole:smigin:lunacyfringe:jhesset-hime:erikavw:tsarny: schizo-alice:
hahahaha best ever. I’m laughing insanely and they might kick me out of the library.
Blair: Yes, this was supposed to happen. I’m sure of it. But now that it has—
Nate: Why are you talking in the past tense? We’re still here.
Blair: I know. But this night already feels like a memory.
***
Arguably, the most poetic goodbye ever. :(
Is this the moment where you fall in love with me?
Oh it is, isn’t it?
You’re totally falling in love with me right now.
-Lily Rhodes, Gossip Girl
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
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Azar Nafis (via victoryblues) (via hopesthatreachthesky) (via euteamo) (via out-of-my-dreams) Yeah, I guess this is what I feel. :( |
