If it didn’t appeal to your aesthetics
would you still live that life?
If the café didn’t have green plants and wasn’t serving matcha in a glass cup with a metal straw, would you still go?
This is a question I’ve been asking myself lately.
I used to document my life with ease—meals, sunsets, cafés, quiet corners. All it took was a phone and a moment. But now I find myself pausing. Wondering.
What draws me to a place? What makes me stay?
Like most people around me, I was pulled in by the vibe. If there was a neon sign, that was usually a hit. If it had the right playlist and the right kind of chairs, it went straight on my list.
One day, a friend said, “I knew you’d like this place.”
I asked him how.
He smiled and said, “It’s just your aesthetic.”
And that stuck with me.
Was I that easy to read?
Do we gravitate toward things that reflect who we are?
Or have we simply started curating lives that photograph well?
It’s something I’m still sitting with.
Because I want to believe, I’d love a place for how it makes me feel, not just how it looks through a lens.
Maybe this is something you can also ponder?
Reading Corner
This week, I started reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
When I read the back cover blurb and saw that it was about video game developers, I almost dismissed it. I thought this probably isn’t for me. But it had been recommended to me so often that I decided to give it a chance.
I’m glad I did.
What I found was a story not just about gaming, but about two people and their passionate, complicated friendship. Zevin crafts their world beautifully, moving us from one year to the next with emotional depth and quiet brilliance.
Learning Corner
Lounge Corner
Rewatched Begin Again this week, and have been humming this song ever since!
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