Field Notes on Becoming

Field Notes on Becoming

I booked a solo trip to Bali

and I can't stop crying. The Sagittarian urge to live out our dreams.

GWEN YI
Dec 04, 2023
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I’ve been thinking about dreams a lot lately.

Not just the ones you lie in bed with, but that you carry in real life.

They whisper in your ear, telling you things only you can hear. I want this. Her life looks so good. Why can’t I have that? Do I even deserve that?

It’s funny — we spend so long living in scarcity that we forget it’s OK to want for more. Th…

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