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first of all i didn’t miss the red flags i looked at them and thought yeah that’s sexy
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i might look innocent but i screenshot a lot
Under her photos, people will write ‘you have such a wonderful sensibility for arranging still life, utilizing natural light and framing photographs’, and I think, if the only thing I had to do all day was take a photo of what I bought at a farmer’s market then my photos would be a still life too.
There is never a moment I think being this available is a bad thing for me. I reason, a main character would go, a main character says yes to life.
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I want to believe that there is a hidden meaning behind what he says so when he tells me he can’t commit I think, he just means he can’t commit yet because the blind conviction of my feelings overrides his knowledge of himself and what he’s capable of giving. What he is, is greedy and lazy, selfish and a coward but what he also is, is clear and when he gives me a way out, I refuse to take it.
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What does it say about your femininity if you know how to make a room pleasing? Knowing how to make a home is the ultimate wreath to crown your femininity. Where do you attain the confidence and the certainty to impose and expand yourself and your tastes onto four walls of a room and what does it say about you when you can’t do this? What if the objects are there because they are functional and not to inspire envy in others? Where the chair you buy is to be sat on, not to be looked at and not sat on because it is too precious to be used or where the addition of your body will jeopardise the
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daydream constantly about him. I want the man I want to be with to change. I send him podcasts, quotes, screenshots, videos nudging him in the direction I want him to go in.
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Toyin Ojih Odutola talks of our generation having to accept a hard truth that we may be the stepping stone to something greater in the future because it’s not us.
