Happy Birthday Book!
BOOOOK! I have been thinking about writing this for months, and was sure I knew exactly what I was going to say. But now I'm here I'm finding it more difficult to put into words than I thought.
Basically, you are the grown up I want to be when I grow up. I have such a mass amount of respect and admiration for you. You are put together in a way I can understand, and don't find intimidating or out of reach, but still manages to inspire and encourage me. I love your morals and your lifestyle. I love how you love Fringe, even though I don't share the same love, because I like feeling that level of passion and adoration for something. I love your creativity and your intelligence and your hobbies and how you pursue them. I love the most the way you just up and travel yourself around the world: that is such a massive, incredible inspiration to me, in ways I don't think you understand.
When I miss you (which is, like, all the fucking time) I find I can hear your voice and accent really clearly across Whatsapp or LJ or Tumblr. I don't know why it's so clear with you compared to everyone else, perhaps because I got to know you in RL first rather than the other way around like most other people, but there is a distinctive Bookishness to what you write and how. And I, idk, feel like I understand you on a baseline level. I feel like I look at you, and can see all the best things that I can be if I try really, really hard.
In conclusion:
Bad Book:
Good Book:
Great Book:
Best Book:
Basically, you are the grown up I want to be when I grow up. I have such a mass amount of respect and admiration for you. You are put together in a way I can understand, and don't find intimidating or out of reach, but still manages to inspire and encourage me. I love your morals and your lifestyle. I love how you love Fringe, even though I don't share the same love, because I like feeling that level of passion and adoration for something. I love your creativity and your intelligence and your hobbies and how you pursue them. I love the most the way you just up and travel yourself around the world: that is such a massive, incredible inspiration to me, in ways I don't think you understand.
When I miss you (which is, like, all the fucking time) I find I can hear your voice and accent really clearly across Whatsapp or LJ or Tumblr. I don't know why it's so clear with you compared to everyone else, perhaps because I got to know you in RL first rather than the other way around like most other people, but there is a distinctive Bookishness to what you write and how. And I, idk, feel like I understand you on a baseline level. I feel like I look at you, and can see all the best things that I can be if I try really, really hard.
In conclusion:
Bad Book:
Good Book:
Great Book:
Best Book:
