Andrea Benito

Falling in love is passive. After all, it’s a falling movement. Standing in love is an altogether different beast.

It just happens so naturally, it seems.

“THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY LIFE.”

Millions of people want to be in the NBA. But only 500 or so people each year have what it takes to be in the NBA. And you know what? Half those players are on the bench all the time. This is how everything works and odds are that you aren’t talented enough to make it as a writer, a top-tier surgeon or lawyer, entrepreneur, or whatever.

Americanism will persist through small independent tribes working electronically and across the globe.

You don’t give kids a lot of freedom. Kids are too impressionable and vulnerable for freedom. You don’t give a 7-year-old the right to buy alcohol, get married, or drive their bike too far from the neighborhood (let alone drive a car) because the consequences would be catastrophic.

The next day my landlord called and told me it was illegal in New York City for windows to be able to open fully, citing “The New York Health Code Section 131.15.”

If your favorite show is 30 Rock, you read Thought Catalog, and you wear jeans and a t-shirt at work while you stare a computer screen all day, you are quite likely to have a very different 5,000-word speaking vocabulary from someone whose favorite show is South Park, favorite site is Bleacher Report, and wears a uniform all day while they operate heavy machinery.

Parents have always said “turn off this trash” to their kids because with the succession of the generations the sounds get louder, more virile, more violent.

Here is a dangerous idea: You have no idea what the consequences of your actions will be.

If you think about it, there is actually no way for you to ever see what you truly look like, to see your body in reality.

Your friend says, “It’s not raining above the cloud. It’s sunny there.”