you literally have free will

break the social contract you've signed in your head

LAST DAY OF OUR 50% OFF SALE

My angels!! To celebrate there being 200k of you, I’m running a 50% off sale for annual plans (the biggest sale I’ve ever run) so that as many of you can access our bonuses (like access to the SYSCA’s ‘close friends’ list, membership to our book club, bonus essays etc) as possible!

I love you so much xxxx

You literally have free will

My best friend’s makeup lives in a vintage treasure chest. I keep mine in a retro sewing box covered in pink and brown polka dots. For years and years we both had those clear plastic organisers that the 2016 YouTube community told us we needed: you know, the ones that got dusty and grubby and never properly fit the products we were being duped into buying?

This is not an essay about home organisation. It’s an essay about free will.

Break the social contract you’ve signed in your head

When I was younger I had a problem with authority. Not in the edgy rip-off-my-tshirt-sleeves-and-yell-fuck-the-system kind of way, but in the sense that I gave it out too freely because I thought everyone deserved it. At high school, I was scared of my teachers, and at university, none of my lecturers knew my name. I couldn’t look adults in the eye and I felt awkward and anxious talking to the parents of the children I’d babysit.