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When did everything become so ‘intentional’?
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One cannot help but feel that the word expresses a wider feeling of being disempowered and adrift.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: PEXELS
Marie Solis
Dating, walking, working out, watching a movie at home, watching a movie in the theatre, thrift shopping, grocery shopping, meal prepping, playing trivia, making coffee, drinking coffee, consuming alcohol, making friends, making plans with friends, playing the guitar, journaling, arguing, reading, thinking, scrolling, breathing.
You can just do all of these things. Or you can do them “intentionally”, as a growing chorus of lifestyle gurus, influencers and perhaps slightly overtherapised people you may know personally are preaching lately.
