afternoon dreams

Share this post
#54 - Twenty-two critical questions for 2022
himabatavia.substack.com

#54 - Twenty-two critical questions for 2022

Are you living the questions?

Hima Batavia
Jan 14
4
Share this post
#54 - Twenty-two critical questions for 2022
himabatavia.substack.com
Artist James Zucco

If you value what you read and would like to support my work, consider Buying Me A Coffee, leaving a heart/comment on this post below, or sharing this journal with another human. If you’re not a subscriber yet, join us!

THANK YOU, LOVE YOU.


#HimaReads

This year I will be sharing a science fiction book I am reading on the first Friday of every month and invite you to read along! At the end of the month, I will open up a thread for us to unpack the prophetic lessons weaved in the narrative that are tickling our imaginations about who we could be and stroking our anxieties on who we are becoming.

Come along. I can’t wait to travel to other worlds with you. Stay tuned for our February book selection in the next two weeks. And feel free to send me recommendations.


I landed back home after a month away. Riding that jet lag life, and easing into 2022. Until I am back in full speed - below is a list of critical questions to contemplate as another cycle sets in motion. Rilke says to live the questions now, and I think that is pretty solid advice.

  1. What colour hair will your avatar in the metaverse have?

  2. How will you broach the conversation with your current family about your plans to have a second family in the metaverse?

  3. What joy will you delight in that will only be yours - never to be documented or shared in a story or caption - and only known between you and your god?

  1. Who will you text when you read the headline, ‘10 more years until billionaires end the world by eating it whole?’

  1. Which Whatsapp group will you leave brazenly without so much as a goodbye?

  2. Where is the steady tree that you will consensually visit and get to know all year located?

  3. Which resolution are you already planning to gracefully bomb, and what song will lick the wound of annual, character-defining failure?

  1. How might you be a little less Logan Roy, and a little more Greta Thunberg to bank a few extra years for the kids?

  1. Who will be the person that you can respond to most messages with, ‘fucking capitalism’ and ‘nothing makes sense,’ and both not tire of this true, even if reductive, statement?

  1. What high-tech gear will you splurge on to make you utterly invincible, even if only briefly and within your mind’s eye?

  1. Which family member will you be kinder to for the thrill of throwing them off the balance of your deep seated dynamic?

  1. What reason will you offer when you decide to permanently wear a 'mask’, literally or figuratively, post-pandemic, to avoid contact and small talk?

  1. Which parallel universe will you go to when you decide to dissociate from this one and what will table manners consist of there?

  1. How might you redirect a dull love to one that is sweeter and stickier? How will you thank love for the generous reorg?

  1. If your soul was a mutable animal that lived on your shoulder, who would it be this year? Will it like what it sees?

  1. Who will you argue with to be right for the fleeting satisfaction of delusional power? What topic might you fancy if vaccines, masks, testing and lockdown measures are off-limits?

  1. At approximately what date in this new year of dazzling possibility will you stay awake until 4am bleary-eyed about who the fuck you are and how you got here?

  2. Which person will you unabashedly follow, like and share everything they touch and utter to feel like you could be friends one day?

  1. What might you share with the world that in your secret dreams lets you ride the 24-hour high of virality and visibility? Where will hide right after?

  1. Which brand will you divest from to sleep a little sounder and have something to announce when dinner parties are back?

  1. How will you look at someone you love with new eyes, and not through the memory of the time they cried about not being able to open a new jar of almond butter, had explosive diarrhea on a flight, or took our their rage on a gentle parking attendant?

  1. How will you know it is all going to be okay because there is really no other decent choice?


#ThisWeekinTweets

Twitter avatar for @BizClarkieClark 🏳️‍🌈 @BizClarkie
I just saw that my ex signed into my Netflix account and watched an episode of "Squid Game." I'm gonna let him get half way through the season then change the password.

January 10th 2022

7,295 Retweets179,254 Likes
Twitter avatar for @sarahkaplan48Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48
I just got served an ad for a product that claims to be the best way to wash your laundry if you care about climate change and I have to say this: YOU CAN'T SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE BY BUYING STUFF

January 14th 2022

806 Retweets6,372 Likes
Twitter avatar for @cartierdior☆ parisian cowgirl ☆ @cartierdior
“buying nfts supports artists!!!” ok but what has been stopping you from pay artists thousand of dollars before nfts ???? hell you can pay me thousands of dollars for my art and i’ll even get crazy and send you it’s physical form

December 26th 2021

20,437 Retweets122,973 Likes
Twitter avatar for @makaylathinksmakayla @makaylathinks
i cannot work a job i dont have time. everyday i need at least 2 hours to journal 3 hours to walk around and think about how i Feel and another 6 hours to daydream

January 5th 2022

22,010 Retweets157,898 Likes
Twitter avatar for @MATTMATTRAYBEAMMATTMATT @MATTMATTRAYBEAM
we need to stop saying “I don’t owe anyone anything” and “no one owes me anything” these aren’t values of our community. Individualism is not a value of our community. We owe each other care, consideration, shelter, warm meals, and check-ins. CARE is a value of our community.

January 5th 2022

17,772 Retweets67,735 Likes
Twitter avatar for @benlearyyBen Leary @benlearyy
we teach our spinach to shrink itself. to make itself smaller

January 7th 2022

9,932 Retweets100,121 Likes
Twitter avatar for @violinbugviolin bug @violinbug
in a way we're all just ravioli

January 7th 2022

2,889 Retweets20,828 Likes
Twitter avatar for @oncloud_bCloudy 🌩️ (estrogen angle) @oncloud_b
it will never stop being funny to me that the cure for ADHD is to take a pill at the same time every morning

January 6th 2022

18,933 Retweets251,876 Likes
Twitter avatar for @OnlineAlisonali segel @OnlineAlison
I just ordered Indian food and my door dash driver texted me like “hey u didn’t order naan that’s a bad call.” I love him

January 9th 2022

1,739 Retweets98,132 Likes
Twitter avatar for @itsonlyzachitsonlyzach @itsonlyzach
You kids will never understand how Bob Saget used to basically host YouTube on tv, and we had to wait for one half hour on a Sunday night to all watch it together.

January 10th 2022

11,307 Retweets102,350 Likes
Twitter avatar for @kashanacauleyKashana @kashanacauley
On the one hand, 830,000 people died, but on the other hand, there’s still 830,000 dead people. https://t.co/GG8x2S7njt

Secretary Marcia L. Fudge @SecFudge

The United States is the only major economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger now than before the pandemic.

January 10th 2022

1,528 Retweets14,152 Likes
Twitter avatar for @ChefJonKungJon Kung @ChefJonKung
Everyone needs to go into a Chinese grocery store so they can see how big ginger is supposed to be. Other grocery stores are gaslighting you. These little bullshit stubby nubbins are not okay. Ginger is big. Knowledge is freedom.

January 9th 2022

1,049 Retweets14,060 Likes
Twitter avatar for @caitiedelaneycaitie delaney @caitiedelaney
I’ve really been “I just need to get through this week”ing for two years straight

January 10th 2022

44,542 Retweets261,944 Likes
Twitter avatar for @DanPriceSeattleDan Price @DanPriceSeattle
@60Minutes Our company received 25,400 applications this year for 72 jobs. Our employee retention was near an all time high. Our employee resignations were at an all time low. There isn't a labor shortage, there is a shortage of jobs that treat people with the respect they deserve.

January 10th 2022

1,156 Retweets8,254 Likes
Twitter avatar for @KarenAttiahKaren Attiah @KarenAttiah
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion." - bell hooks

December 15th 2021

11,453 Retweets53,709 Likes
Twitter avatar for @va_dickensvirginia dickens @va_dickens
FaceTime is so embarrassing when the other person doesn’t pick up it’s just you staring at your own pathetic face craving human connection

January 11th 2022

21,735 Retweets233,947 Likes
Twitter avatar for @bocxtopfirst-mate prance @bocxtop
capitalism breeds innovation that's why america keeps figuring out new ways to not give anyone healthcare

January 11th 2022

13,888 Retweets121,243 Likes
Twitter avatar for @rakeshsatyalRakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal
Normalize replying to emails with “what.”

January 12th 2022

18,017 Retweets143,369 Likes
Twitter avatar for @PallaviGunalani can be your long lost pal @PallaviGunalan
we should get sleepy days like we get sick days

January 13th 2022

1,997 Retweets27,349 Likes
Twitter avatar for @MPHProjectMidwest People's History @MPHProject
good god
Image

January 13th 2022

7,010 Retweets69,465 Likes
Twitter avatar for @BuffalojilllDiscount🍋Emma🍋Stone @Buffalojilll
*BREAKING* Shortly after divorce announcement, Jason Momoa seen holding hands with Pete Davidson outside popular LA eatery

January 13th 2022

11,905 Retweets173,138 Likes
Share this post
#54 - Twenty-two critical questions for 2022
himabatavia.substack.com
Comments

Create your profile

0 subscriptions will be displayed on your profile (edit)

Skip for now

Only paid subscribers can comment on this post

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in

Check your email

For your security, we need to re-authenticate you.

Click the link we sent to , or click here to sign in.

TopNewCommunity

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2022 Hima Batavia
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Publish on Substack Get the app
Substack is the home for great writing