Kendra Syrdal

How will you find the things you love if you’re not trying because you’re afraid? No one changed the world by living vicariously through YouTube and Cheryl Strayed novels. If something scares you a little that probably means it’s going to end up being a defining moment or experience for you.

If someone asks you what’s wrong and you honestly reply, ‘I don’t think my shirt looks good,’ your ugly shirt suddenly loses some of its power over you. Just by saying it out loud. Also, sometimes I think our viewers don’t realize that we are real people and we see what they say. This was just a fun reminder.

The Grinch isn’t a symbol of needing holiday cheer. The Grinch is a fictional example of every post-grad who’s hoping their phone never rings and would really dig just getting some rent money this year.

If you’ve ever hoped and wondered if there were benevolent spirits or angels watching out for us in life, this story might be the proof you’ve been looking for.

Maybe it was the age, maybe it was being in high school. Maybe it was immaturity, maybe it was the improbability of young love. Maybe he had heard the rumors about me and decided to see if they were true. Maybe like every cautionary tale I had decided to ignore, once he undid those jeans and climbed on top of me he clearly had had enough.

Let’s face it, sometimes we need more than emojis to express ourselves.

There is no need to wonder about the how and the why. Because you aren’t staying; your shirt is already over your head and your shoes are sliding onto your feet. There’s no need for watching my phone because slowly but surely the screen will stop lighting up with your name. I need to stop avoiding the inevitable and let the water wash away every trace of you that is eating away at my skin.

Honestly not accepting a gift from Buddy the Elf is like taking a four-year-old to a screening of Krampus.

The podcast devoted to “the basics: love and death and justice and truth,” launched their second season with no warning yesterday. After over a year since the release of season one, fans of the podcast expectedly lost their shit when they pulled a Beyoncé and dropped a whole new, suspenseful addition to the Seriafam with no warning.

You are stitched together with broken promises from other girls and you’re looking to me to close off the knot. You aren’t comfortable in your decisions, in your choices, and you look to other people for validation. You thrown off by the silence between sentences and the spaces that our fingers leave when I pull my hand back to my own chest.

He’s there, scaling walls and risking life and limb for the craziest and most impressive picture. Because god FORBID that damn photo get less than 400 likes.

He’s a little more than a booty call because you know his middle name and all, but he’d never be your boyfriend because he still quotes Fight Club like it’s his religion. You know there’s no longevity with the situation.