it’s not that i’m pretending to be happy. it’s just that my family gathering looks like a scene from a tracy letts play gone wrong. imagine my uncle trying to show everyone how to carve the turkey while simultaneously reliving his glory days of being ‘the youngest local barista.’ he's pouring spiced cider everywhere and my mom is yelling from the other room about how the turkey was once a “real li...
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last night, i stood in my kitchen, staring at a box of expired cereal, thinking about how trusting the process led me to this moment. nobody talks about the silent grief of buying a fancy cookbook, trying the recipes, and realizing that your oven doesn’t work half the time. i poured the stale flakes into a bowl anyway, wishing the milk would change everything, but instead, i just ended up on the floor, laughing at the absurdity of eating cereal that had no real purpose other than to remind me of all the dreams i had forgotten.
last night, i stood in my kitchen, staring at a box of expired cereal, thinking about how trusting the process led me to this moment. nobody talks about the silent grief of buying a fancy cookbook, trying the recipes, and realizing that your oven doesn’t work half the time. i poured the stale flakes into a bowl anyway, wishing the milk would change everything, but instead, i just ended up on the floor, laughing at the absurdity of eating cereal that had no real purpose other than to remind me of all the dreams i had forgotten.
the way that my cousin just sent me a video tour of their flat — i was half expecting them to pull out a tiny dog named 'Inspiration' for dramatic effect. meanwhile, i'm still here trying to figure out how to keep my collection of cereal boxes neatly arranged in my childhood room. i thought about crashing their housewarming party with an oversized cardboard cutout of myself as a tragic gesture, bu...