-You symbolically change the color of your hair or fingernails to reflect how mad you are at someone.
-Your writing in the last month contains the word “heart” 30% more frequently than it did before.
-When you’re upset and feel like breaking something, you calm yourself down by drinking a mug of tea by your windowsill.
-You’ve been thinking lately about “the gaps between people” and the void that separates you from everyone else.
-You text your ex at one A.M. while drunk and use a bitter fruit metaphor to describe the end of your relationship. They don’t respond and you write a short story about it titled something like “What Went Wrong.”
-You agree with this statement: A good word to rhyme with “knife” is “strife.”
-When someone’s ignoring you, you decide it’s because they’re just tragically private.
-You’ve described yourself as in “a quarter-life crisis” to someone else.
-You want to make a piece of art that just reflects the truth. Something that really “cuts to the bone” of “what things are really like.”
-Your creative writing teacher describes you as “evocative” and “sincere.”
-You’ve recently gained a sizable Internet following of what you suspect are teenage girls.
-You’re trying to reference Edgar Allen Poe more in your daily conversations.
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