Meaningful Vibes

Romanticize Your Life (No, Really.)

Romanticize your life.

Take the pictures.

Write the blog.

Archive it all on socials if it sparks joy.

Not because you’re trying to prove anything — but because it’s your life, and it’s worth documenting. There’s something sacred about treating your own existence like it’s meaningful… because it is.

We talk a lot about “being present,” but the truth is, presence feels almost impossible for most adults in American society. Everything is competing for your attention — apps, ads, deadlines, notifications, the constant background hum of productivity culture. It’s hard to stay in your body when the world is designed to pull you out of it.

But the other night, in the middle of a conversation with a friend, I caught myself doing something radical: I was actually paying attention. Really present. Not scrolling, not half-listening, not mentally drafting my to-do list. Just… there.

And the funny part?

They had no idea.

They didn’t know I was soaking in the moment because I never know when the next one will be. With certain people, the spacing between conversations is unpredictable — sometimes it’s days, sometimes months, sometimes a decade. You blink and time has done its slippery little magic trick again.

Which leads me to one of my favorite human phenomena: the elasticity of time.

Time isn’t real in the way we pretend it is. Some people can disappear from your life for ten years and then reappear as if no time has passed at all. Those connections — the ones that slip in and out but never lose their charge — feel almost mystical. I’ve got a handful of them, friends from childhood whose presence is both familiar and evolving. They’re not always roses; sometimes they’re straight-up thorns. But they endure. They have staying power.

And maybe that’s the point.

Time is finite, and none of us know how much of it we get. But presence — the choice to pay attention — stretches time. It expands it. It beautifies it. When you romanticize your life, you’re not being frivolous. You’re honoring the fact that life is moving fast and you’re doing your best to catch pieces of it before it slips through your fingers.

So take the pictures.

Write the words.

Save the conversations in your notes app.

Revisit the people who feel like home, even if life has pulled you apart and back together in strange, nonlinear ways.

This is your archive. Your proof of living. Your reminder that even with all the noise and demands of adulthood, you can still choose presence — one moment, one memory, one connection at a time.

Love,

LC