Some Weeks the World Just Lets You Be

There are stretches where everything goes grey—you feel invisible, pointless, like the world is operating on some frequency you can’t tune in to. And then there are weeks like this one, where everything just fits. I’m in an exciting city that never really stops moving, I have a job that fills something rather than draining it, I’m finally earning my own money, and I have a girlfriend who is smart and sexy and just as much of a lunatic as I am. We both know the black clouds will roll back in and blow out these good-adrenaline moments faster than we’d like—so we should appreciate them while they last, wring everything out of them. And today at Lidl I finally found the muesli I’ve been obsessing over for weeks, the one the catering company occasionally delivers to the agency. Small life. Good life. It can stay like this for a while.