I get it: romanticizing your life, taking yourself on dates, self-love, self-care, mindfulness - none of those are supposed to have anything to do with romantic love. But when I moved to New York - in a long-distance relationship and deeply influenced by the city’s romcom image - I felt I was missing out on the magic.
I tried and failed to find joy in the mundane, and I started to wonder if the individualist ideals of romanticizing my life were actually bringing me further and further from a sense of romance (romantic or otherwise). Maybe it isn’t about doing aesthetic things in aesthetic places. Maybe, just maybe, this project of finding beauty in the everyday was about other people all along.
My "writing": sarahgabriella.substack.com/
Chapters
00:00 could I have loved New York if I’d fallen in love there?
03:30 darkness descends
04:19 (trying to) take charge of my destiny
05:50 the theory of ‘romanticizing your life’
08:20 missing pieces
10:35 hell is not other people
Music
A Walk in the Park - Doug Maxwell
Walk Through the Park - TrackTribe
Laugh and Cry - The Mini Vandals
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