hey boundlings! i'm back with this again! to remind myself of things to be grateful for especially when i've had the shittiest of days. unforch, i've had a high fever over the weekend but did not take sick leave as a new colleague at work joined the team. bad timing so i had to push through monday and tuesday. HOOOF! felt like the longest 48hrs of my life but still, here are mine this week:

🤍 had a nice dinner catch up with my cousins; we planned this awhile back and i didn't wanna take a rain check despite being sick. though my sore throat has worsened, my heart is really full (belly too! 😆)

🤍 went for a nice facial after work today, much needed!

🤍 having a supportive family to take care of an energetic toddler so my husband and i can have a dinner together after months of not being able to because of busy schedules

what about you? 💕 reminder to always take care of yourself xx

...and this is a hill I will die on. I find the idea that classic literature is too difficult for most people to understand to be anti-intellectual and condescending. I promise you are not "too stupid" for classic books, I promise you can read them if you want. High school and even middle school students study classics, you don't need an advanced degree in literature to understand them. Will a classic be more difficult than a contemporary book? Possibly. Will you understand every little detail in it? Maybe not. But that's fine! That's how you learn new things! And if you want something explained, there are plenty of study guides and critical summaries and analyses and video essays and podcasts and so many other resources out there to help you bridge the gaps in your understanding. Some classics even come with annotations and explanatory notes from scholars and editors because they don't expect readers to fully understand the text on their own!

And not all classics are dense literary fiction if that doesn't interest you, there are classics in genres from sci-fi to fantasy to horror to romance and everything in between. I'm not trying to say you have to read classic lit to be a "real reader" (that's also a stupid idea), but I don't think people should preclude themselves from reading huge swaths of literature because they fear it will challenge them.