SochWise (@soch.wise)

Someone opening a cupboard while you’re standing in front of it. Being called from another room. A spoon held out with, “Taste this.” I wanted privacy so badly that I never thought I’d miss the interruptions. Now I have evenings when nobody needs me to move, answer, carry something or come and…

I can handle the practice. It’s admitting I don’t know where to start that gets me. Asking someone younger for help. Taking longer than I expected. Resisting the urge to explain that I’m usually better at things. Still, I’d like to have something to show for the next year besides another reason I…

I knew when you finished work. I knew what you ordered and which stories you’d told me twice. But if someone asked whether I was seeing anyone, I still didn’t know what to say. I stayed because there was always another plan, another good evening, another reason to think we were getting somewhere…

I want to buy groceries without keeping a running total. Help my parents without moving another bill around. Get home with enough patience to listen to someone I love. That’s what I picture when I think about earning more. I’d like the people at home to get more of me than whatever work leaves…

I nearly cancelled. I thought I’d have to arrive with stories, energy, something to contribute. You ordered food and told me about your day. Eventually, I had something to say too. Thank you for letting me arrive as I was. I went home feeling a little more like myself. #AdultFriendships…

We’d finish school and still have a whole afternoon ahead of us. There was time to get bored, find something to do, and get bored again. Now I save things for the weekend and barely get through half of them. I don’t miss every part of being a kid. I miss how much living fitted between getting home…

It happened without a conversation. He handed me the heavier bag, and I took it. Now I notice other things. Mum wants a little longer on the phone. They ask when I’m visiting, and “soon” has started to sound like an answer I’ve given too often. I’m trying to choose a date before they have to ask…

We used to argue over the remote. Now we compare work schedules and ask when the other one’s free. You remember the house, the rules, the things we found funny that nobody else understood. There’s so much I never have to explain to you. I miss being able to walk into your room just because I was…

I used to play the same few chords for an entire afternoon. Nobody heard them. I still enjoyed myself. Then I started wondering whether I was improving fast enough, whether I should share it, whether it could earn something. I’d like to pick it up again without turning the afternoon into an…

A broken kettle shouldn’t rearrange the month. A day off sick shouldn’t mean doing sums in bed. Sometimes, when I think about having more money, I imagine helping someone without worrying about what happens to me afterwards. I wonder how much room that would leave in my head. What expense would…

The day was over. Everything I hadn’t let myself feel was still there. #Emotions #VisualPoetry #SochWise

A free afternoon shouldn’t feel like something you have to defend. Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson. #WorkLifeBalance #SlowLiving #SochWise

Something I haven’t already planned, worried about, or talked myself out of. #NewBeginnings #Life #SochWise

Back then, it was just dinner. Now you’d give anything to sit there again. #Nostalgia #ChildhoodMemories #MissingHome #SochWise

By the time I left, I’d already spent a long time missing you. #Relationships #FeelingAlone #SochWise

Already home. Just not ready to go inside yet. #AfterWork #AdultLife #QuietMoments #SochWise

Sometimes “nothing much, just called” means you’re missing home. #LivingAbroad #Homesick #Family #SochWise

Everyone seems so certain of where they’re going. I wonder how many of us are pretending. #FeelingLost #FindingYourWay #LifeThoughts #Relatable #SochWise

We don’t talk every day anymore. I still want to tell you first. #Friendship #OldFriends #LongDistanceFriendship #MissingFriends #SochWise

When did “What will they think?” become the first question you ask yourself? #PeoplePleasing #LifeChoices #SelfWorth #Relatable #SochWise

The good memories are real. So are the reasons you left. #MissingSomeone #LettingGo #MovingOn #RelationshipQuotes #SochWise

On my way home, reviewing a conversation nobody asked me to review. #Overthinking #Relatable #AwkwardMoments #LateNightThoughts #SochWise

we never said it out loud. but we all felt it. #foryou #fypシ #softaesthetic #wronglystyle #sunsetvibes

That’s not Cold. That’s Growth #sochwise #youvechanged #growthmindset #selfgrowth #innerpeace

You feel things in your gut for a reason. #sochwise #gutbrain #secondbrain #mindblownfacts #emotionalintelligence

Your Brain Can Trick You Into Fake Memories #SochWise #PsychologyFacts #BrainScience #UnusualButTrue #DidYouKnow

NASA recorded her love… but never her voice. Just her emotions, floating in space. Would aliens understand what it means to love? #SochWise #TikTokFacts #StoryTime #CarlSagan #FYP #Brainwaves #GoldenRecord

Your brain is lying to you. Every time your eyes move, they make a sound. #BrainHack #WeirdFacts #SochWise #FYP #TikTokFacts #MindBlown

Your brain deletes dreams like files. Here’s why you forget them in seconds #SochWise #DreamFacts #TikTokScience #MemoryExplained #BrainHack #PsychologyTok #LearnOnTikTok #FYP #DreamsExplained #ScienceTok

Room 873 doesn’t exist. But if you knock… someone might knock back. #TikTokMystery #SochWise #Room873 #GhostBride #BanffHotel #CreepyFacts #Unsolved #HauntedPlaces #ViralMystery #FYP