I LOVE THIS. I can't even remember how/where I found your Substack. The "so leap into that pool of cringe and splash around a bit" just makes doing whatever you want to attempt doing so much less heavy or serious or consequential if your base level expectation already is that "this might probably be cringey and I'm okay with that for now". Excited to discover the rest of your writing!
Thank you for reading Priyanka! I agree: shifting my baseline expectation has made so much more possible than if I had higher standards, simply because I was treating everything as something that fed my curiosity. Hope you enjoy the rest of the essays coming this year :)
I LOVE THIS. I can't even remember how/where I found your Substack. The "so leap into that pool of cringe and splash around a bit" just makes doing whatever you want to attempt doing so much less heavy or serious or consequential if your base level expectation already is that "this might probably be cringey and I'm okay with that for now". Excited to discover the rest of your writing!
Thank you for reading Priyanka! I agree: shifting my baseline expectation has made so much more possible than if I had higher standards, simply because I was treating everything as something that fed my curiosity. Hope you enjoy the rest of the essays coming this year :)
I enjoyed this thoroughly. thank you <3
Thank you for your support :)