Some aphorisms from a writing activity two years ago. Feel free to disagree with any or all of them.
- Sleep is best with shoes on and alarms off.
- If the nicest way a partner can describe you is “endearing”, leave.
- Drinking cough-syrup is ill-advised.
- High self-esteem is looking in the magnified side of a mirror and not cringing.
- If you enter an elevator going the wrong way, you must commit.
- Commitment is eating a pomegranate.
- Conspiracy theories are not scary. Any possibility the world is exactly as it seems is scary.
- You will never see an entire object at once.
- Saying ‘all artists suffer’ is an omission. We all suffer, artists just know how to use that suffering, how to type suffering in 12 point font, how to take a paintbrush and cover a canvas with suffering, how to announce suffering in D minor, how to profit from suffering.
- Death is no longer caring when someone leaves the cursor in the middle of a video.
- Death is being okay with stray marks on a whiteboard.
- Death is not briefly giggling when viewing genitalia in art.
- The triumphs of humankind know no limit: we have forcefully conditioned air to our liking!
- Miscellaneous is the most important category.
Maggie Chirdo 