3 days disappearing into thin air, every month for 4 months.

After calculating my commute to and from work, I realized I was losing nearly 3 days out of every month of my life from sitting in a car and crawling along the endless stretch of highway. This isn’t a tutorial on how I’ve maximized efficiency and how you can do the same, but rather prose on how losing something so precious made me appreciate it so much more.

April felt like the longest month ever, and I think it’s partially due to the time-garnishing finally coming to an end. In the middle of the month, on the same day that I signed my full-time contract at my current day-job, I signed a lease for a 1 bedroom apartment located just a few blocks from my office. Cutting a commute down from 3 hours per day to 5 minutes per trip can change everything.

On the first proper night at my new home, I scattered all of my recording gear on the floor and wrote to songs that have been sitting on my hard drive and phone as frustratingly unfinished instrumentals for months. Pulling over to a side street to write down a melody that conjured while stuck at a stale red light became less frequent.

In the following days, I finally opened up the book that’s sat as a coaster on my bedside table for months and worked through it (largely due to my internet not activating yet and facing boredom)

These small rituals, which I lost for several months due to changes in life, were coming back and I hope to commit to them for the next while that I have.

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Now that April’s gone, the 1st of the month makes sense to start something new. Every Friday of May, I’ll record down thoughts from the past week and log down outfits, highlights, whatever else - my own version of confession.

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010526

rick owens black short level tee
saint laurent paris D17 jeans
ann demeulemeester side zip boots

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Time moves fast but I move faster

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