i think the title of this newsletter fit so well cuz i always thought of me living in 2 worlds the online and offline, sometimes i spend more time living and breathing in my offline world and sometimes in my online world, it feels like a door of myself who i decided open in that day.
however one day talking with my mom i said when i'm living and breathing in my offline world hits different as if the other world slowly disappear little bit for few hours. it's fascinating how we as one in big group of people is looking/living in different directions for a same spot.
recently i've been challenging myself into instagram and following amazing people there who creates and shows their living perspective of being human and express themselves, one of them is @/oisaferposterjourn that one who caught my attention was written " all we got is our art" and what i relief i felt reading this cuz this short line encapsulate how i live, love, breath art in my both worlds the only thing i need to do is balance between them and allow me take time from time to time when i know it's necessary.
i hope your next days will be full of beautiful living things in ur 2 worlds, happy early xmas
hi tara, i’ve been following you for long on social media but just sat down to read your newsletter. i just started with this amazing piece which touches me deeply because i’ve been drowning in social media as an escape too. an escape from loneliness and awkward silences. from having nothing to do with my hands and from not wanting to think deeper about problems and feelings. i spent the past week with a friend and she was on her phone all the time, i usually don’t do this when i’m with someone because i think our presence is precious and i like to give my full attention to the people i’m with when i can. i’m not saying that what she did was bad and that she didn’t pay attention but it made me feel awkward and i ended up using my phone a lot too, breaking my own “rules”. this newsletter has motivated me to focus again on my goal, to keep the phone out when i should and hidden when there’s a whole world around me. because not only others deserve my attention, i deserve it too.
Beautiful, beautiful text... "Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you?" / "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" / "It’s because we forget, sometimes.". Such truths. Often, I wonder if my emptiness is because the world, the state I put myself in feel like hallways, corridors. Somewhere that leads to a place, but not a space itself. Does it make sense?
Could you also recommend places to find poetry, or just sayings? I follow one or two accounts on Instagram, but I'd love to add a couple more. Loved the entry, as usual
i’ve been reading your newsletter up-to-date but i’ve never been able to express how i was feeling about it. so here i am, trying to have the courage to write down some words. we’ll see how that goes.
sundays wouldn’t be the same without your newsletter. in fact it’s ‘mondays’ for me because of our timezone, but that’s even better since i always need something to distract myself from the fact that i have to get up early to get into my morning class, but then here i remember that i’ll be reading your newsletter on my way there. and that is indeed a blessing. i can always relate to the things you’re writing, and i’m always screenshotting them to write them in my journal (with credits). it’s like the sunday squares in my journal isn’t mine anymore, they’re yours. i feel some kind of relief flooding into my body whenever i hear from you. and that’s prolly because i feel understood. (i know, it isn’t about me, but you know when you embrace something fully and you start believing that it’s actually about you. when you listen to a song and you like it so much that it becomes yours. this is the same concept for me. in my head, i’m you.) today’s newsletter was also one of them, i felt understood. for i don’t know how long, i didn’t have any personal accounts on any social platforms, and that made me feel lost at some point. i felt like a ghost. when i was meeting up with my friends, they would already know all the stuff that happened to each one of them since they saw the updates on instagram. or on whatsapp (which i’m still new to —literally had to download it bc our professors send some stuff there) some topic pops out and then i would have to ask my friends for a screenshot of the tweet they were talking about. this made me feel excluded in my late 10s, but now as someone in their early 20s, i feel free. i now have an instagram account where i follow artists, my most loved singers, i use my account to support small businesses. and most importantly, i also have small circle of friends i can relate to, who can relate to me. i’m not around some random people who doesn’t take their time to read the stuff i’m posting about. having a small account that includes me as some digital bits, it still makes me feel seen, even tho i’m not particularly being seen since i don’t use it to post my selfies…
this was incredibly long and not necessarily needed but i just wanted to let you know about how i see you too when i read your stuff. and that i’m probably a little too excited about it. thank you always for writing, i hope you have a good week ahead. and if i don’t see you before then, i’m wishing you a happy, healthy new year tara ♡
hi, tara <3 glad hearing news from you
i think the title of this newsletter fit so well cuz i always thought of me living in 2 worlds the online and offline, sometimes i spend more time living and breathing in my offline world and sometimes in my online world, it feels like a door of myself who i decided open in that day.
however one day talking with my mom i said when i'm living and breathing in my offline world hits different as if the other world slowly disappear little bit for few hours. it's fascinating how we as one in big group of people is looking/living in different directions for a same spot.
recently i've been challenging myself into instagram and following amazing people there who creates and shows their living perspective of being human and express themselves, one of them is @/oisaferposterjourn that one who caught my attention was written " all we got is our art" and what i relief i felt reading this cuz this short line encapsulate how i live, love, breath art in my both worlds the only thing i need to do is balance between them and allow me take time from time to time when i know it's necessary.
i hope your next days will be full of beautiful living things in ur 2 worlds, happy early xmas
take care and i see you soon my friend <3
hi tara, i’ve been following you for long on social media but just sat down to read your newsletter. i just started with this amazing piece which touches me deeply because i’ve been drowning in social media as an escape too. an escape from loneliness and awkward silences. from having nothing to do with my hands and from not wanting to think deeper about problems and feelings. i spent the past week with a friend and she was on her phone all the time, i usually don’t do this when i’m with someone because i think our presence is precious and i like to give my full attention to the people i’m with when i can. i’m not saying that what she did was bad and that she didn’t pay attention but it made me feel awkward and i ended up using my phone a lot too, breaking my own “rules”. this newsletter has motivated me to focus again on my goal, to keep the phone out when i should and hidden when there’s a whole world around me. because not only others deserve my attention, i deserve it too.
Beautiful, beautiful text... "Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you?" / "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?" / "It’s because we forget, sometimes.". Such truths. Often, I wonder if my emptiness is because the world, the state I put myself in feel like hallways, corridors. Somewhere that leads to a place, but not a space itself. Does it make sense?
Could you also recommend places to find poetry, or just sayings? I follow one or two accounts on Instagram, but I'd love to add a couple more. Loved the entry, as usual
hi tara,
i’ve been reading your newsletter up-to-date but i’ve never been able to express how i was feeling about it. so here i am, trying to have the courage to write down some words. we’ll see how that goes.
sundays wouldn’t be the same without your newsletter. in fact it’s ‘mondays’ for me because of our timezone, but that’s even better since i always need something to distract myself from the fact that i have to get up early to get into my morning class, but then here i remember that i’ll be reading your newsletter on my way there. and that is indeed a blessing. i can always relate to the things you’re writing, and i’m always screenshotting them to write them in my journal (with credits). it’s like the sunday squares in my journal isn’t mine anymore, they’re yours. i feel some kind of relief flooding into my body whenever i hear from you. and that’s prolly because i feel understood. (i know, it isn’t about me, but you know when you embrace something fully and you start believing that it’s actually about you. when you listen to a song and you like it so much that it becomes yours. this is the same concept for me. in my head, i’m you.) today’s newsletter was also one of them, i felt understood. for i don’t know how long, i didn’t have any personal accounts on any social platforms, and that made me feel lost at some point. i felt like a ghost. when i was meeting up with my friends, they would already know all the stuff that happened to each one of them since they saw the updates on instagram. or on whatsapp (which i’m still new to —literally had to download it bc our professors send some stuff there) some topic pops out and then i would have to ask my friends for a screenshot of the tweet they were talking about. this made me feel excluded in my late 10s, but now as someone in their early 20s, i feel free. i now have an instagram account where i follow artists, my most loved singers, i use my account to support small businesses. and most importantly, i also have small circle of friends i can relate to, who can relate to me. i’m not around some random people who doesn’t take their time to read the stuff i’m posting about. having a small account that includes me as some digital bits, it still makes me feel seen, even tho i’m not particularly being seen since i don’t use it to post my selfies…
this was incredibly long and not necessarily needed but i just wanted to let you know about how i see you too when i read your stuff. and that i’m probably a little too excited about it. thank you always for writing, i hope you have a good week ahead. and if i don’t see you before then, i’m wishing you a happy, healthy new year tara ♡