I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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What straight people think I want: to be accepted, to be seen as “normal” by them
What I actually want: a wife, ten cats, house by the ocean, money so i can get the love of my life whatever she wants
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I’m half-convinced that many Germans regard it as a point of national pride to have words for every conceivable emotion, and every time anyone anywhere asks “is there a word for [obscure emotional state]?”, the entire nation of Germany collectively invents one, edits their dictionaries so that it’s retroactively always existed, and says “yes, yes there is”.
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