marmalade-cabin:

how to tell if you are the grandma friend

• You have a textile hobby like sewing, embroidery, crochet, or knitting.
• You cook and/or bake all the time, but only if you have someone to share the product with!
• You’re lowkey a hoarder but it’s okay because you’re not super messy
• Your joints make sounds that they really shouldn’t be making at your age
• If one of your friends gets sick, you’re the first one on scene with tea, medicine, blankets, and sympathy
• You prefer comfortable clothes over fashionable ones…but you’d like to find an intersection between those two.
• You love your home and try to keep it beautiful and cozy!
• Technology just…confounds you.
• When food goes on sale you buy it. The end. You’ll find something to do with it
• You frequent craft stores and are always dismayed by how pretty and expensive everything is
• You DIY pretty much everything you can.
• Maybe you have one of those salt grinder things. Maybe a pepper one.
• You collect things to put on display, like tea pots, mugs, candles…
• You’re fascinated by mori and cottagecore and sort of wish you were living a life like that
• When you do go out, it’s usually to quiet places, like tea shops, forests, bookstores, and thrift stores ❤️

sfenhry:

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I’m not interested in marriage but I think about this all the time.