https://evao.me/blog daily 0.75 2025-02-25 https://evao.me/blog/March.13 monthly 0.5 2021-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603970dad7269e3421c46246/1618349225260-QURYELHZK8X67K5IMGM0/hans-eiskonen-7qrHc0mQiFA-unsplash.jpg Blog - March.13 Jungle is a track best played in the midst of turmoil. There’s no doubt 40 knew slowing up Garzón-Montano’s “6 8” and throwing it over Drake’s vocals was the tried-and-true formula for self reflection. I’ll put it to you like this, Marvin’s Room is what you listened to in high school when your crush got switched out of your Algebra class and broke your Snap streak. But Jungle? Jungle is adult sh*t. It emphasizes the point in adulthood when you learn to let things go—whether that’s accepting someone might not be good for you or learning to focus on yourself after a long season of focusing on others. It’s the type of track you reserve for the few times a year L.A. decides to be dark and stormy. The one you play when your ex hits your phone on your birthday. When a big life opportunity you were really banking on falls through. When your new flame keeps playing games on you. A track for when your ego’s bruised and your heart is in bandages. And so, if the song is called Jungle it’s because each bar Drake throws out clings to you like a vine you can’t get unwrapped from. When he opens with: These days, I’m letting God handle all things above me. You felt that. When he admits: Still finding myself, let alone a soulmate. You can’t help nodding in agreement. And when he asks: What am I supposed to do after we’ve done everything that we’ve done? Who is your replacement? You instantly thought of...well, only you know. Though, let’s be clear, while it's easy to misconstrue Jungle as any ol’ failed relationship song, it proves way deeper than that when you’re currently going through the same. Because a break up with someone else almost always means a make up with yourself. We’re all too familiar with dropping the dead weight of a relationship and re-entering the “jungle” that is the single world. Ruthless, untamed and full of competition, it’s tough not to run back to the person you found comfort in. Try going out with friends, you find yourself spilling your drink over your phone, texting them: Are we still good, are we still good? Like I said, it can be tough out here and it seems Drake knows that. The question is, how do you handle your own jungle? Because as chaotic as it may seem—that it being your singlehood—it can also be a place of purity, boundlessness and peace. Really, the choice is yours. https://evao.me/blog/February.24 monthly 0.5 2021-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603970dad7269e3421c46246/1618277924691-8V5BPM3J0493RDAAXZBZ/bucography-3-sFj6NKOhs-unsplash.jpeg Blog - February.24 The hardest part of a transitional phase is accepting that you’re about to go through one. When I first went to six flags as a kid in the early 2000’s, I was excited. I was excited as I brushed my teeth that morning, I was excited as I sat through that hour and a half drive over and I was absolutely ecstatic when the blue-haired, teenage employee begrudgingly gave me an official welcome into the park. But then I got buckled into Tatsu, a ride that pumps you up to a height of 170 feet at a speed of 62 miles an hour. You know when rides make that “Please, keep all arms and legs inside the moving vehicle at all times” message? Yeah, nah. You’re faced down, limbs totally just dangling in mid-air. It’s wild. Anyway, my point is that the same feeling you get as a kid when the coaster slowly starts making it’s trip up that lift and you realize there’s no turning back is the same feeling you get as a twenty-something who has just hit yet another transitional phase in their life. It’s a feeling of desperately not wanting something to happen but knowing it’ll happen anyway. It’s a feeling of dread. Of fear. It’s anxiety. Anxiety is what I feel when my friends don’t feel like my friends anymore. What I feel when my grades absolutely suck and I feel like I chose the wrong major. What I feel when I suddenly don’t like where I live anymore. What I feel when I can’t get a freaking text back in a timely manner, J E E Z! The list can go on and on. Don’t worry, this isn’t where I give my whole “cocoon into a butterfly” spiel. But this is where I tell you that I think we just need to learn how to accept. Honestly, maybe we aren’t going through the same things. There may even be some of you thinking, ahem—wrong major? Couldn’t be me, I was born to be a dental hygienist. In which case I’d like to say congrats! So glad to hear you got it all figured out bestie! /s However, I think regardless of what kind of circumstances life is throwing the rest of us, we can all benefit from a good ol’ chill pill. Things will always get a little tough, they’ll suck for a while, I'm sure there’ll even be times we’ll straight out feel bummed for no reason at all. 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