Know when to leave the table.
You can still care about someone and decide that being treated badly is enough.Disrespect does not have to make you chase someone.
It can simply make you angry.You are allowed to make a clean cut.
Unfollow. Block. Throw the relics away. Stop reopening something just because affection remains.The people you carry in your heart do not necessarily disappear when you stop speaking.
Sometimes years pass and the friendship is still there.Different languages can be useful for different versions of yourself.
Feelings might belong to one language, concepts to another.Read according to obsession.
Five books in one week and nothing for three months still counts as reading.Curiosity does not need a routine.
The best bookstore might be inside a train station.
Beauty and usefulness are not always located in the same place.Sometimes you need books physically around you.
Classifying things can be comforting.
Religion here. French books there. Latin America over there. Everything has somewhere to return to.Take care of the things you own.
Not because they are precious, necessarily, but because replacing something carelessly is a miserable way to live.Clean your shoes between seasons.
Knowing what you own makes it harder to convince yourself you need more.
Especially jumpers.Do not keep something just because it is Ganni.
Or Gucci. Or anything else whose label is doing more work than the object itself.Pass things on when they stop feeling like yours.
An object does not have to be useful to deserve to stay.
You can own a Julio Iglesias CD without owning a CD player.Finding a good fan is apparently much harder than it should be.
Size, resistance, portability, airflow, appearance. Humanity has overengineered less important things.Do not build an Instagram persona if you do not want one.
Post something because you are proud of it. Or because you want to remember.Keep photographs for memory, not performance.
To remember rather than to be remembered.
