2008-2011: the meme renaissance

2012-2013: meme shaming, memeing not condoned by the public and is considered unforgivable

2014-Present: the second meme renaissance, memeing is once again in style , the world is at peace

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?

“oh my god has my skin gotten worse” (it did)

9. Bright room or dark room?

bright, usually

15. Do you like someone?

lol aside from my bf i like tons of people!! i don’t think there’s anyone in my life i truly hate so my feelings towards people usually range from like/neutral/annoyance/”i’m going to avoid you for the rest of my life”

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

look i ain’t ready for all the moral discussion that would come w/ this decision lol. but i’m a strong believer that people should not kill others even though i really feel like killing some ppl sometimes but i guess that’s a normal human feeling we all have at some point

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.

this is TOUGH uhh salad sandwich?? i’m sort of cheating bc the formal definition of salad is “small pieces of food mixed with a sauce” so really anything can be a salad as long as it’s in tiny pieces w/ sauce

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?

i’m not sure what was the MOST unusual conversation but the other day i was talking to my mom about things related to gynecology/obstetrics like childbirth (like, the most yucky parts of it) (and she helped like hundreds of ladies in giving birth so She Knows Stuff) and i guess that to outsiders it must’ve been very gross but it was mostly v interesting in the medical sense (also i’m never going to push a baby out of my body after i learned that blood is the LEAST of your concerns when the thing is coming out. like you don’t even want to know)

johndarnielle:

Generally speaking I feel like advice is kinda sketchy business because no two people’s walks are the same, what to speak of generationally — the world in which one generation grows up is different from the one the preceding generation grew up in. (This has always been true through every age, it’s worth remembering, no more so for any one generation. It’s always true.) There’s just a whole lot about life advice that I’m not into. Cooking advice I do, roast vegetables with oil and salt and pepper, do this thing often, they’re always a treat and are good cheap eats, good cheap eats are a lifelong joy. But “here, let me make a bunch of assumptions about your life and tell you what you ought to do with yours based on those assumptions,” this I avoid.

Having said that here’s an interesting thing about your question: you sound urgent to discover this niche, to begin your life. But speaking only for myself, I’ve inhabited a bunch of niches, and they were all interesting in some way, and they contributed to whoever I am now.  I didn’t pick one at 21 and stay there. By no means! The Mountain Goats didn’t really start until I was 25. Even then, it didn’t become my main thing for another eight or ten years. So, “don’t be in a huge hurry” seems like pretty good general advice — that restless feeling of anxiety about not doing anything is self-judgment I think, but allowing oneself to just be where you are is one option you might always consider. Who knows — probably the world’s most successful people felt such a crushing need to always be moving forward that it inspired them to become wealthy, but being OK with wherever I’m at is, for me personally, a very important value. 

Also whatever niche you end up in, understand that it’s fluid, not static, the idea that adulthood is about learning to stand still and rest on one’s prior experience is for sure one some adults adopt: some very sad, frustrated adults. I will never be done growing, always want to be getting better at being human, always want to be learning things, do not want to be settled into this niche or that, will never be satisfied to remember the good times. That’s just me and I will only be able to say if it was a good path on the last day of my life, which is not today, so I can’t really advise it, but I can say that it’s made for a pretty good day today.