Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

by Jonny Sun

“But what about joy? Can you make joy necessary?”

we might not speak to each other for months, sometimes even years, knowing that we are always one message away from each other but the ease of that closeness means we can talk at any time, and so there is no specific urgency to do so, and so we put it off, and we put it off, and we put it off.

It feels rare for me to have the focus for something and the time to focus on it and then to actually focus on it,

Things change so quickly, so it doesn’t seem strange to me that something I was really excited about a second ago now fills me with dread, or, maybe worse, apathy.

One piece of drawing advice that has always stuck with me is just “draw what you notice.”