What’s the Icelandic word for…
When you happy cry after your partner surprises you with a piece of pizza already picked clean of any offending cheese?
When you sad cry (along with the empathetic phone operator) because your therapy won’t be covered by your health benefits due to a technicality?
When your dentist says, “We need to think about our chronic pain, but we also need to think about our looks,” when she offers to put the extra botox from your TMJ treatment in your brow and crows feet for no extra cost?
Realizing you’ve lost important social skills after a year alone like buffering cold hard facts and requests with simple niceties like, “how are you?” and “only if it works for you,” and “I hope you are well, well, well!”
When you want to sneak onto your parents’ property while they’re away for the weekend to have a moment to live in the nostalgic-good of childhood without the complicated feelings of the latest parent-child trauma you uncovered in therapy?
When you shut down TikTok immediately after the official video guy (you know which official video guy) tells you to take a break because it’s nice for someone else to have your best interest at heart for once?
Starting the day thinking it’ll be a good one - a great one, even! - and then having an anxiety attack a half hour (!) later?
Being super pissed off by all the ways you kneecapped yourself in the past in the name of love, but really it was just codependence and that sucks?
Being so fucking sad all the fucking time except that one hour you were alone in nature this past weekend so should you move now or when?
When you do your best (read: only) writing of the week in your notes app while sitting on the toilet?
Talk soon,
Natahna
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The Recommends: Oops, it’s another song - Cool Girl by dodie.