I didn’t choose the song in a deliberate way, and I didn’t scroll through playlists looking for something new or better or more interesting, because some days novelty feels like…

For a long time, I treated my morning coffee like a task that needed to be completed before the day could officially begin, something functional and necessary that existed outside…

I didn’t wake up planning to switch anything about my routine, which is usually how these realizations sneak up on me, because the days when I’m most aware of myself…

I thought I would miss the rush more than I did, and maybe that expectation alone says something about how long I’d associated stimulation with necessity, as if moving quickly,…