In an inspiring story out of Phoenix, AZ, sensitive soul Karoline Wilson intentionally blocks out a full hour of her day in order to yearn.
“It’s important to make time for the things that really matter,” Wilson told reporters. “Like wondering what could have been, staring wistfully out the window, or even watching the breeze flow through blades of grass.”
Wilson then chuckled and appeared lost in thought, before adding, “Just as it does through her hair.”
When asked who she was talking about, Wilson simply responded, “You wouldn’t understand.”
However, when the amount Wilson was yearning on a daily basis became debilitating, she realized it was time to make a change.
“Before I blocked out time to yearn, I was yearning constantly. A deep sigh here, a longing glance there. It was really distracting,” said Wilson, whose parents describe her as “a lot.”
Her boss reports that Wilson’s work performance had been suffering.
“At every presentation, she’d zone out, preoccupied with thoughts of a light caress or electrifying hand-hold,” Wanda Heti says. “I know this because she told me for some reason.”
Now, Wilson simply excuses herself from work every day at 11:30a.m. to stand in the utility closet and get right to it.
“My favorite method of yearning at work is to press my hands against the door and slowly slide to the floor, then turn around a cry a little,” she says. “But to each their own I guess!”
When asked whether she gets bored of yearning for 60 minutes a day, Wilson replied with a resounding no.
“Yearning itself is a broad category. It’s not just romantic: I mean, I yearn for another life, for the end of winter, for a new Marvel movie, the possibilities are endless,” she said. “Yesterday I yearned for the Verizon guy to actually arrive between the hours of 10 and 12 as promised.”
Wilson has tried other strategies, but none have been as effective as the hour-long yearn.
“Some people recommend the pomodoro method—5 minutes of yearning, 25 minutes of being normal—but it just doesn’t do it for me.”
Her fans call her “a revolutionary,” psychologists call her “honestly pretty pathetic,” but one thing is certain: she’s really going through it!
