Performative Frank

For what might be one of the first times ever, I don’t feel the need to be in a relationship. 

…which feels weird to say, but I think I’ve genuinely found something that I’ve fallen in love with.

In this past week alone, I’ve finally felt a passion to do something and have something that I can always look forward to every day. I guess it’s the feeling of constantly being busy, but instead of filling my time with a lack of purpose, I’m finally spending it on something that has one. 

Every day for the past 11 days, “write blog post” was somewhere on my schedule. Along with that came the challenge of finding a Photo of the Day. I would wake up with the same little bit of stress in the back of my head, wondering what I was going to take a picture of or how I was going to make it at least somewhat interesting. It made me actually look for moments worth taking pictures of, and once I finally got a photo I liked, I sorta felt complete for the day.

Then after getting the POTD, all I had to do was sit down at my computer and type some random BS that sounded like me. Sometimes I would spend the whole day thinking about how I wanted to tell a certain story or explain one of my philosophies. Coming up with a silly hook or figuring out the storytelling of the daily post became one of the most best parts of my day. It kept my mind busy, and I found it surprisingly stimulating. Like even just now, I was walking in a figure-eight pattern around my kitchen (probably looking like an idiot) trying to figure out what I wanted to write next for a solid 15 minutes.

I think I finally understand what those semi-uncs mean when they say they don’t feel the need to be in a relationship because they’re so focused on themselves. It’s not necessarily the fact that they don’t value relationships. Rather, there’s a different kind of fulfillment that comes from working towards something that they genuinely care about. For me, I think that something is this blog.

Now about graduation. It’s kind of sad that high school is over but the sadness hasn’t hit me yet. Maybe it’s because the blog has kept me on a high and made me really happy, but I’ll really miss 50 or so people I care about from our class. It’s been a fun ride but our lives are just getting started and we still have so much left to do and so much to discover. I might not have the tears for today but I’ll save my tears for another day :`)…

Next Post???: The Blog’s Future (6/27/26)

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Photo(s) of The Day:

I attended graduation today and took a lot of photos (pretty satisfied with them) with friends. Here’s a photo of me walking across the stage with what people thought was a cannon on my graduation cap and a photo of just me and my dripped out 🥶🥶 snowman (by the way it says “COLD W/ IT” on the cap I probably could’ve made it clearer). Might be one of the last times I get to see myself with braces on…