Status Updates From Berlin

People always say that the most important moments usually glide by unremarked-upon, as invisible as fish in a flowing stream. You don’t notice them at the time, they say, you’re too busy going with it. But I don’t find this to be true. I always know when the day I am living will come to tower high above the others in the landscape of my past, and whether someone I have just met will play a starring role.

Even if I do nothing but continue this minimal existence, I thought, time will keep moving past me. Even if I remain as immobile as a paperweight, time will still stack up the days and pin the receipts of all of them to me until I find myself with a thick wad of them in my forties, and a hefty pile in my sixties. I’m sure they’ll add up to something that feels weighty and satisfying…

seeing Landwehrkanal written as Landwehr canal just unexpectedly ruined my day

lowkey hating it right now let’s see if it gets better