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Patrick Geary✨'s avatar

Hallelujah, originality is the new conformity. Your life is the ultimate project, and your singular goal is to enjoy it in the way that only you know how (PS, really appreciating all this Aquarius / Leo identity energy after yesterday's full moon - thanks for vibing!)

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Holisticism's avatar

you’re SO right, it’s very Aqua-Leo lunatic vibes :) Thanks for reading!

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Jen (Ether) Ede's avatar

1,000%. The era of SO MUCH EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL LABOR TO APPEAR LINEAR IS OVER

*insert Elmo fire meme here

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Olivia Sisinni's avatar

“What if rocks but spicy” really got me. You are by far the most delightfully unhinged (and very quickly my favorite) writer on my feed and it’s totally because you lean into the weird, the unpredictable, and your authenticity. Thanks for another banger

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Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz's avatar

wow, truly the deepest HONOR! I’m do my best to continue tap dancing at the threshold of insanity on main 🤍

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Naina Kaul's avatar

Yes to this. I write fashion but with a pov that includes art, literature, music, culture and social commentary. Complexity over vanilla any day

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Lynn Quinn's avatar

Thank you so much Michelle for a nudge to be weird. I'm sooo weird at my core...

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ELLA AUGUSTIA's avatar

HELL YEA

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Takim Williams's avatar

I'm pretty sure my unhappiness is directly correlated with the extent to which I've been waiting my whole life for permission to follow this exact advice

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Amber Nelson's avatar

This may be the most validating thing I have ever read (as a person who writes a newsletter about glamour, is getting super into herbalism, and has an abiding interest in the history of the English language)

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Emma Reynolds's avatar

This is amazing! I actually wrote my thesis in college on why we should embrace confusion in literature (focusing on Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons"), so I LOVED reading this!!

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Alexis Hartman's avatar

i love this. and i love you. ty my queen 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Alexandra Moreno's avatar

Feeling so seen!!!! Yes to the confusion, yes to the mystery. Thank you Michelle. 💙

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Holisticism's avatar

❤️ love to bewilder!

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xia's diary's avatar

This is incredible and how I’ve always aspired to be, even back when I didn’t realize it. I love love love your writing

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Amira Umar's avatar

As a girl with ADHD I have always felt so insecure about how I'm just projects and vibes, and don't seem to have a particularly normal or straightforward path to things. or can't use LinkedIn correctly or run 10k every week. This article makes me feel so much better about my freaky existence

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Abdul Hanan's avatar

I just came across this article after a YT video. Thank you so much for writing, it's like what I was thinking but you put it into words. I always felt awful for having weird interests that dont align with my career or life. But this made me feel so much better.

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Tiana Dashay's avatar

Haha thank you for writing this!!!

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CC's avatar

This all feels like my kind of rallying cry

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