Some things we should start romanticizing

• bike rides, especially when listening to music. the wind in your hair, the songs in your ears, every sound being quiet and living in your own bubble of lyrics.
• sitting in a bus. you’re going back home, maybe you’re reading a book or just looking outside of the foggy glass.
• making tea. warming up the water, bringing it to a simmer and closing the gas, pouring it into a ceramic mug, the perfume of tea leaves: it’s a ritual.
• buying a new book. walking in a book store, reading the first page of a book that sounds interesting, choosing a book because of its cover, never having heard of that book.
• that one specific moment when you are coming back from a party and you’re walking the few last steps before getting home.
• writing your name on a new notebook. scribbling messy letters or trying hard to make it look pretty.
• tying shoe laces. where are you even going?
• picking a flower. getting off the road and into a patch of grass just to pick a yellow wild flower, pressing it in a book, or putting it in a glass of water.
• finally getting to bed. the cold bed sheets, closing your burning eyes, the small sounds of the city.

Sometimes it takes time to process things. give yourself the time and space you need to understand your emotions. don’t rush it and don’t suppress it.