letters to romanticizing life

Fall in love again and again
Winding roads, doing manual drive
Early nights in white sheets with lace curtains
Capri in the distance
In a place that can make you change
Fall in love again and again
Early nights in white sheets with lace curtains
Capri in the distance
In a place that can make you change
Fall in lo-o-o-o-o-o

Everything is
Romantic

— Everything is romantic, Charlie xcx

life is hard. so enjoy the beautiful things.

things that are romantic:

• waking up with sunlight on your face

• adding your favorite creamer into your coffee, that you made, just the way you like it

• having a favorite creamer (mine is Trader Joe’s brown sugar oat milk creamer)

• the very fact of having a favorite way of making coffee

• cold air but warm sheets

• a fresh haircut and the way you feel so much lighter afterward

• taking the train - anywhere, any train

• jazz in the background

• instrumental covers of pop songs on a restaurant’s speaker

• a server at dinner that you think was maybe flirting with you, and you don’t even really need to know, it was just fun to feel admired

• holding someone’s hand as you leave dinner

• when the cute server asks if you have room for dessert, and you look at the person across from you, and instead of saying no, like you usually do, you both smile and say yes

• a barista at your favorite coffee shop knowing your name

• a barista at your favorite coffee shop knowing your order and asking if you want “the usual”

• having a favorite coffee shop

• lighting a candle and setting it on your desk before you write

• sealing an envelope with a birthday card inside

• picking out the perfect stamp for your card when you’re at the post office, and thinking i bet they’ll like this one

• riding in a friend’s car, listening to their normal, car driving playlist and realizing it’s so different from yours, but not in a bad way, just in the way that makes you remember you are different people

• when you see someone do their little routines at their own home

• leaving the library with a stack of books, then eagerly reading the covers over and over again in the car

• a gentle breeze on your face

• the smell of someone else’s shampoo as they hug you

• unboxing an unopened perfume

• personalized planners and notebooks

• people who bite their pens absently while thinking

• seeing someone walk their dog in public

• walking your own dogs

• outdoor porch or patio lighting

• white wine on a patio

• a record player that makes a new album sound vintage

• playing your parent’s old cassette tapes

• trying on your mother’s old ring, and wondering how her fingers were so small

• the way people cross the street together after waiting

• nervous giggles in a packed elevator

• a potluck

• burning a letter you never wanted to send in the first place

• a voice memo from your best friend

• i got you a little gift when they went to something you couldn’t go to, because they missed you and wanted you there

• giving someone flowers after a performance

• picking out a dress for a night out

• two women doing their makeup together before they leave the house

• thrifting the perfect sweater

• chocolate croissants

• flowers at a farmer’s market

• colored pens

• cinnamon rolls

• decorating to host a party

• cleaning up cups at said party with the one friend that always stays to help you clean up after

• when someone else makes you breakfast

• ordering “pancakes for the table”

• reading a magazine

• just one drunk cigarette

• watching sex and the city for the third time

• meeting a stranger at the dog park

• meeting a dog at the dog park (even better)

• trying on lipstick at Ulta with those disposable things and having a sales person tell you it’s your color

• saying surprise me to your hairdresser

• tan lines

• lavender lemonade

• painting outside

• listening to an audiobook while doing a puzzle

• when someone sends you an article because they thought of you

• the grocery store in the early morning

• the freeway in the early morning

• really, most things in the early morning

• getting a postcard

• living life to the fullest, even on a random Wednesday