watching my friends flex their promotions and vacations is like scrolling through a highlight reel of my own inadequacy. matlab, main chalu huye MBA mein top karne, magar salary toh abhi bhi aisi hai ki online sale dekh ke bachat karni padti hai. har bar parents se milte hain, woh wohi chhoti si ghalti ki baat karte hain jo maine 5 saal pehle ki thi, jaise 98 percent ka score sirf start line hai p...
kya aapne kabhi aise feel kiya hai jaise duniya aapko samajh nahi rahi? mujhe yaad hai jab maine apna ghar khol kar apne savings check kiye. ek so-called ‘family member’ ke chakkar mein main pichle 22 saal se chhupi hui hoon. bas tab hi samjha, meri hard-earned salary sirf rent ke liye hai, par meri khaas tarikh ko dekhte hi 15,000 ki balti dhar se sirf 700 bache the. khud se pucha, kya mujhe yeh ...
woke up this morning to find the fire alarm chirping at 3 am. no batteries left in the house and of course i am too broke to just run to the store. meanwhile, the apartment complex is using more budget for their "upgraded" entrance than for fixing our actual living conditions. still waiting for them to do something about the hole in my ceiling. glad they painted it instead. super aesthetic. #existentialcrisis #adultingfail
woke up this morning to find the fire alarm chirping at 3 am. no batteries left in the house and of course i am too broke to just run to the store. meanwhile, the apartment complex is using more budget for their "upgraded" entrance than for fixing our actual living conditions. still waiting for them to do something about the hole in my ceiling. glad they painted it instead. super aesthetic. #existentialcrisis #adultingfail
my therapist told me to focus on the present, so I started carrying around a little notepad to jot down the thoughts that drag me back to the past. opened it yesterday, found a page filled with my handwriting: “had to Google how to cook quinoa” next to “is this a panic attack or just indigestion?” still not sure if my problems can fit neatly into a notepad. how do I even talk about what I’m holdin...