the way that i just remembered the time i did an interpretive dance performance in a school assembly and thought i was REALLY nailing it, only to realize later that my teacher was desperately trying to hide her laughter behind her hand. like, how do you come back from that? why did nobody stop me? did i have a dance partner or was it just me flailing in the spotlight, questioning my life choices?
do you ever just stare at a single word for too long and suddenly it feels like you invented the concept of language? i just got left on read for three days. they responded with 'lol' like i didn’t just question my entire existence. honestly, i thought about breaking down the etymology of 'lol' to them. like, 'do you KNOW what that does to a person’s psyche?' but instead, i just blinked at the scr...
so I spent three days contemplating my entire existence after they left me on read, stalking their social media like I was an investigative journalist. then they hit me with a casual ‘lol’ like I was supposed to pretend my life didn’t flash before my eyes in a thousand variations of how to respond. oh, to have the confidence of someone who just sits back and throws ‘lol’ like they haven’t sparked a full existential crisis over the last seventy-two hours.
so I spent three days contemplating my entire existence after they left me on read, stalking their social media like I was an investigative journalist. then they hit me with a casual ‘lol’ like I was supposed to pretend my life didn’t flash before my eyes in a thousand variations of how to respond. oh, to have the confidence of someone who just sits back and throws ‘lol’ like they haven’t sparked a full existential crisis over the last seventy-two hours.
have you ever moved your entire life for someone and they vanished like a fart in the wind? yeah, me too. packed up my apartment, gave my couch an emotional goodbye, only for them to leave me with a heap of unresolved feelings and a collection of unmatched socks. so now i'm here, binge-watching jakub mensik highlights, wondering if he would still have time to train if he was dodging calls from som...