Today I told my mom that I couldn’t wait to shower tomorrow. She looked at me quizzically and said, “if you’re excited to shower, your life must be really boring.”

And yeah, I probably deserved that. But she just doesn’t quite understand the way I see showers.

I like showering because I like when my hair looks nice. I like when the curls fall the right way and they’re bouncy and shiny like first...

Love is a crazy feeling. Is it even considered an emotion? Because it feels more like an addiction. An addiction to the rush, the high you can receive from just sitting near someone, or catching someone’s eye. A feeling so strong it completely takes control over rationality. A desire that overthrows sensibility. A rush producing so much dopamine that the mind begins to crave it.

For me, I’d alway...