Do it now!

Lately I have become a total mantra person. I get this phrase in my head and it's like I march to its beat until a new phrase comes along. Right now:

Do it now Do it now Do it now!

I'm fairly certain that this came off my Lululemon manifesto water bottle (I spend a lot of time staring at all the sayings when I'm bored, although the "Children are the orgasm of life..." one bothers me slightly). I have such a bad tendency to take off my clothes at the end of the day and toss them on the desk or dresser and say, I'm tired I'll get them tomorrow. At the end of the week I literally pick up piles and piles of clothes to put away. This awful habit makes my "cozy" apartment go from cozy to cramped really quickly though. So lately it's "do it now!" Get a mantra, it will make your life good.

{His Master's Choice, Etsy}

Slow down

Do you ever just miss a time and a place so much that it hurts? It happened to me as I was getting on the train today- I had just finished a particularly long and fairly mundane day and I was starving, and with all my might I wanted to be back in college, going home from class to meet my roommate to spend an hour or so at dinner together. That hour was the most relaxing part of my day, when everything else disappeared except for the space we were occupying. That hour felt like one giant exhale and the world wouldn't start again until the next morning. Since leaving, life kind of feels like a never ending inhale.

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