The subway isn't safe when I'm around
Act Before You Can Overthink
What does this look like? It means putting down your thoughts on paper before they disappear. It means starting the conversation with your brother about your business idea. It means answering that email and texting back faster before that well-reasoned mind of yours mucks it all up. It means pressing SEND. Now. Now. Now.
I overheard this conversation on the subway. Two women. March 13, 2015. It was late; I was coming home from seeing The Heidi Chronicles starring Elisabeth Moss. Very glad I wrote this one down. Always write it down.
My Favorite Excerpt of a Story You Should Read
This is from “Why ‘Happily Ever After’ Isn’t Cool Anymore” by Danielle Friedman
Long before Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks found each other, the idea of the soul mate had its origins in ancient Greece. In Plato’s Symposium, the playwright Aristophanes suggests humans were originally born with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces — but as punishment for their arrogance, Zeus split these early humans in two, damning us to spend our lives searching for our other half. When we do finally find our mate, the story goes, “the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight.”
Continue over at The Cut.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara