Kat's Blog

Helvetica

i feel old
but i'm not old
all i know is
i'm not a kid anymore.

i haven't felt like a kid
since moving out in sophmore year
but this time
on my 22nd birthday

i realized that i'm unrecognizable
i'm a different person
this is the first year where
i am a full adult

and it feels weird
birthdays don't feel the same
instead of advancing to a milestone
i feel as if im advancing

towards an inevitable demise
all the worries of my youth
have been supplanted
with worries of adulthood

nobody told me about this
i mean, people did tell me
but i never felt as if i let go
of the past

but at some point
my hand opened unwittingly
and stubborn as i am
i moved onto something more mature

like it or not
the fonts have changed.
not just of the blog, but
the fonts of my life are changing

less visceral
less jarring
more paletable
more sophisticated

yet still...
its not voluntary
i've outgrown my monospace phase
soon I won't be able

to keep up with the memes
I drifted away from the internet
touched grass
and realized

that perhaps there is a world
outside the digital
and having experienced a taste
the monospace fonts of a past self

will be inevitably replaced
with a timeless font
one without age
helvetica