मेरे पिता हमेशा काम में व्यस्त रहते थे और मैं जानता था कि उन्हें भी मुझे याद करने का समय नहीं मिलता था। जब वे लौटे, तो मैं अजनबी की तरह महसूस कर रहा था, जैसे हमने सब कुछ खो दिया हो, और अब वो अकेले उस घर में हैं जो उन्होंने मेरी खुशियों के लिए बनाया।
my sibling opened credit cards in my name and my parents want me to forgive them because—family means you can steal your brother's identity and still get hugs at holidays, right?
sitting here scrolling through old playlists and all these songs remind me of late nights in that dingy basement where everything felt possible—now it just feels like an echo, and i realize i do not know where those people are anymore. sometimes it hits hard that i cannot even find a number to call because they are all fading away, like the words of those songs that used to feel like home.
sitting here scrolling through old playlists and all these songs remind me of late nights in that dingy basement where everything felt possible—now it just feels like an echo, and i realize i do not know where those people are anymore. sometimes it hits hard that i cannot even find a number to call because they are all fading away, like the words of those songs that used to feel like home.
so i spent two months teaching my “replacement” everything i knew, thinking they were my new assistant, then i find out through a LinkedIn notification that i was being let go, like am i a character in a sitcom where the laugh track kicks in right after i realize i just helped my own executioner flourish, its absurd really, but also here’s the kicker, they were way worse at the job than i was.