so, i'm starting to get notifications on status updates, and it's pissing me off, so i'm just unfriending everybody.

the reality is that i don't read my news feed. if you want to follow me, go ahead.

this gentle dreamer v. hopeless cynic thing has always bothered me. you just need to throw a little realism in there to break the false dichotomy.

gentle dreamer + empirical analysis = hopeless cynic.

i'm a cynic *because* i'm a dreamer.

there's no contradiction in dreaming of things that never were and asking why not, and being realistic about what the answer actually is.