Brave and Messy

This graffiti informs me that I am not a mess, but that I am brave for trying. The exclamation mark and the heart really sells it. I don't know messiness and bravery are mutually exclusive, but I'll try to understand.

Maybe I'm not a mess. Maybe finals are in a week and I'm totally prepared. Maybe I don't have a 30 page paper due tomorrow night. Maybe my ex didn't randomly visit my aunt. Maybe I do something other than take pictures of useless words in the bathroom.

And indeed, maybe I am brave for trying. Trying to figure out the minimum hours of sleep that I can live on for these last two weeks before graduation. Trying to calculate how much caffeine is an overdose. Trying to write papers and study for exams that I don't care about. Trying to care that I am a mess.

Don't lie to me, motivational graffiti. I'm not brave. I'm not even trying.

Source of Inspiration: Tiles

Choosing the background for this blog was probably the most time-consuming choice I made for this design. Originally, I chose one that look like teenage drawings on lined paper, because they're most often thought of as the vandals that commit this artistic crime. But it looked trashy, cluttered, and childish.

And then I thought about bathroom tiles. Most often, they're square, but sometimes they're shaped more intricately. I attempted to find a background that had black and white tiles, like the stereotypical bathroom floor, but didn't find anything that looked good. Eventually, I found the current background of gray squares and rectangular shapes, and stuck with it.

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