Love, Ashley.

Relentlessly self-aware.

My opposite & me.

July 4, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

One day, I will look in the mirror less, but when I daydream I will imagine working on someone who still resembles the person I see, rather than the one I have made up. This could be what 22 is all about.

Out of line.

May 20, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

I get scared that while there is nothing wrong with walking at a different pace, I might get tired of feeling like I am walking alone.

What We Talk About When We Talk About University

April 26, 2017.Reading time 28 minutes.

University is a synonym. Is it not? It’s a synonym for the years that we are able to categorize ourselves as students.

“Girl Talk”

April 17, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

On being young, on getting hurt, on doing the hurting, on watching your friends get hurt, on the things that come up in ‘girl talk’…

12:33am. What I should be doing is studying.

March 29, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Declaration of poor study habits, a few late night thoughts, and miscellaneous songs from a study playlist.

A really stupid decision that felt an awful lot like an excerpt from a John Green novel.

March 9, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

We were at that age when conversations consistently drifted towards a naive desire to run away. We loved our friends and hated them by the following Tuesday. We were hopeless romantics who claimed to have broken hearts and we were just struggling to find our aspirations, but everything seemed irreparably far away. So naturally, we stole a golf cart.

Call me cliche, call me ordinary, just don’t call me unambitious.

March 9, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

…But when I set the idea of a career against the backdrop of everything else I want in life, it just seems so small right now. Maybe, this is called being twenty-one.

9 Things for 9 Weeks into 2017

March 4, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Taking transit 2 hours one-way to sit on a rock by the ocean for an hour or two is long, exhausting, and most of the time, completely and utterly worth it.

Somedays, Sometimes, Some night’s.

March 4, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Somedays, I kiss boys who make me feel like a number.

Feb.26.17

February 27, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

Tonight I moved my mattress against a different wall, I cleaned my whole apartment, and promised myself I’d keep it this way for a while.