i was recently re reading a diary that i discovered in my closet from when i was in the seventh grade. And mine was all about boys and barb s and all sorts of really immature things. It's a tough issue, because i don't know what it's like to be a kid now. I think they're very much like as flasand martyr, just regular, you know, that we have a lot in common. But there's no way, and there's no ways, that when i was 16 you could have communicated to me the notion of my forty two year old self. That's not comprehensible.
Rob Walker discusses his interest in death and how our digital records remain online, being shy and how this influenced his decision to become a journalist, writing about the sleeved blanket known as the snuggie, and the wish to brand the idea of "be happy for what you have."