there is nothing that distinguishes your life trajectory from tens of thousands of other liberal arts with a decent financial...
there is nothing that distinguishes your life trajectory from tens of thousands of other liberal arts with a decent financial cushion, except maybe a few more this generation did a couple years at bcg instead of in L.A. everyone who can rope together some family funds is opening a brewery or cafe or growing mushrooms or selling handicrafts on tiktok or doing a podcast-novel or some other indie hobby-life thing, if it seems more glossy and corporate-presenting thats just the aesthetic of the age
My fucking lord are you dense, that’s the thing, I’m realizing the “open cute neighborhood shops” window might have closed in Portland (retail is now increasingly yuppie-targeted stuff obviously recruited as placemaking amenities in newbuild), I don’t think it ever opened in my hometown (we went right from secondhand bookstores when shopping centers hollowed out downtown to fancy cheese for commuters who liked the vibe), and I can’t think of anyone from my college cohort who did that.
You keep talking like this stuff is universal, my very issue is I went through life kind of taking for granted that it was and am now weirdly thrown to realize it’s not