Katja Bart

It’s okay. I’m letting go of that now. 

They call it “disaster preparedness.” The coping mechanism by which you imagine the worst possible scenario in order to brace yourself for the fallout.

Anything from Lush: She cares about animal rights and fair trade. She also has a remarkable tolerance threshold.

Lynx/Axe body spray: He’s a hipster. Or he’s 17.

The shortest path between two places, as my GPS likes to tell me every time I get it out of the glovebox, is a straight line.

Nothing else will stand in your way.

The day I started to accept that we are no longer in each other’s lives, I also accepted that we didn’t want the same things.

It may seem obvious to some of you, but too many times people use the excuse of “we’re just too different” and “it’s like we’re different species” to justify some pretty awful behavior.

If you stay in a place for more than a week, you better learn a thing or two about local customs.

Too often, “showing your most authentic self” and “loving yourself”seems to translate to “act normal.” 

Anxiety is a monster that hijacks my brain – it makes me angry, hostile, and very, very paranoid.

We are breaking up with the idea that the relationship was ‘perfect’ which we had inside our heads.