not gonna lie, when I read about filmförderung and all these fancy streaming services getting money thrown at them, I couldn’t help but laugh. meanwhile, my last attempt at creativity ended with me pitching a short film about my neighbor’s cat that literally sleeps 20 hours a day. I mean, everyone else is buying houses and cars, and I'm just here trying to figure out how to finance a coffee habit....
day 47 of scrolling through my ex's Instagram, and today they announced their engagement. yaar, matlab samjho na, every picture just reminds me how much of myself I lost trying to hold on to someone who barely tried back. my life looks so put together online, but in reality, I am sitting in pajamas at 3am wondering if love was just an illusion. meanwhile, everyone else is coupling up, and I can't ...
it's not that I regret it... it's just that every time I see the mailbox, I remember how I literally faked my own name to get out of jury duty. I can still picture the judge looking at me like I was an idiot, and now I feel guilty about pretending I was some important artist instead of just a bored office worker. I think about it like, all the time, especially when I hear people talk about civic duty... so yeah, now I just awkwardly dodge those convos.
it's not that I regret it... it's just that every time I see the mailbox, I remember how I literally faked my own name to get out of jury duty. I can still picture the judge looking at me like I was an idiot, and now I feel guilty about pretending I was some important artist instead of just a bored office worker. I think about it like, all the time, especially when I hear people talk about civic duty... so yeah, now I just awkwardly dodge those convos.
ok but there i was, sitting on the couch with a bowl of cereal, googling “how to iron a shirt” like my mom is going to swoop in any second and give me the shameful side-eye. i mean, i can assemble IKEA furniture and change a light bulb, but ask me to tackle wrinkles and suddenly it's an existential crisis. my parents would literally call a family meeting if they knew i couldn't handle laundry. #ad...