my family thinks i should be this ultra-successful overachiever. meanwhile, i just wanted to stay home and binge-watch every season of survivor like my life depends on it. i said no to that promotion that everyone was excited about. why? because the idea of dragging myself to a corporate hell sounded worse than being voted off an island. so now at the next family gathering, instead of "congratulat...
it's 2 a.m. and i just found myself staring at my empty wallet, the receipts crumpled at the bottom like a sad little pile of my hopes and dreams. i used to laugh at my neighbor for hanging up a huge calendar filled with notes about budgeting, now i'm thinking of doing the same. there's something absurd about getting excited when your paycheck clears, just to know it’ll disappear faster than the s...
wait—has anyone else ever found themselves in a spiraling argument about your "lifestyle choices" in a family group chat, while you’re literally deciding which bill you can let slide this month? like, there’s my cousin bragging about her new designer handbag—while I’m over here scrolling through my budget app praying it’ll tell me I can afford pasta instead of ramen for dinner. and oh my god, the absolute GALL of my sister suggesting I “invest” in anything when I can barely invest in my self-esteem at this point—I've got enough hidden debt to fund an underground society but somehow still look like I’m thriving on social media.
wait—has anyone else ever found themselves in a spiraling argument about your "lifestyle choices" in a family group chat, while you’re literally deciding which bill you can let slide this month? like, there’s my cousin bragging about her new designer handbag—while I’m over here scrolling through my budget app praying it’ll tell me I can afford pasta instead of ramen for dinner. and oh my god, the absolute GALL of my sister suggesting I “invest” in anything when I can barely invest in my self-esteem at this point—I've got enough hidden debt to fund an underground society but somehow still look like I’m thriving on social media.
do you ever find yourself stuck in a loop of regret? i accidentally sent my ex a screenshot of our friends complaining about how pathetic he was at karaoke. literally wanted to crawl into a hole. the worst part? the caption said “can you believe i dated this loser?” now he thinks i’m the one who's pathetic. how do you recover from that?