I swear to every heaven ever imagined, if I hear one more dead-eyed hipster tell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare from the grave so he can tell them every reason why he wishes he were born in a time where he could have a damn Gmail account.
The day after I taught my mother how to send pictures over iPhone, she texted me a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row. Don't you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful. But whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in your backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club while the rest of us fall in love over Skype.
Send angry letters to state representatives, as we record the year's first sunrise so we can remember what beginning feels like when we are inches away from trigger.
Lock yourself away in your Antoinette castle while we eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did. Hashtag you're a pretentious asshole.
Van Gogh would have taken 20 selfies a day.
Sylvia Plath would have texted her lovers nothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words.
Andy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account, and we all would have checked it every morning while we Snapchat our coffee orders to the people we wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes.
The life is spilling over with 85 year olds re-watching JFK's assassination and 7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over YouTube videos.
Never again so I have to be afraid of forgetting what my father's voice sounds like.
No longer must we sneak into our families phone book to look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend.
No more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like or how grasshoppers procreate.
I will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips in public parks with my cellphone and you will continue to scoff and that is okay.
But I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed you are to be alive in a moment where you can google search how to say "I love you" in 164 different languages.
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Recovery
شِعرWritings that helped me recover and will hopefully help you. Some might be mine.
