why does the combination of liking tattoos, cats, and sushi just seem so…… cliche to me?

tell me you haven’t met someone, or read a book, or watched a movie/tv show about a girl that fits this description?

she probably has brightly-coloured hair and wears a lot of black and/or jewelry. might have some facial piercings as well as a tattoo of (at least one of) her cat(s).

you’ll hear her complaining about her life or laughing about one of her crazy adventures at your local sushi joint.

amirite?

"I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t …disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are."

� Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)

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