things i will be glad to leave behind

  • the summer garbage smell
  • humidity
  • the school entrance requirements and stress for pre-K, elementary school, middle school and high school. no one should be that stressed out about fifth grade. it’s not normal. or healthy.
  • the fast-paced nature of everything and everyone
  • the inability of working folks to ever imagine buying anything
  • paying exorbitant, embarrassing sums of money on rent
  • the never-ending winters
  • the way my feet feel at night having walked on pavement all day
  • noise–all the time
  • living on top of and underneath someone
  • so. many. people. everywhere. all the time.