not gonna lie, I spent my Saturday night on the couch scrolling through Instagram, watching people I went to high school with land these fancy jobs, like software engineers or marketing directors. I live in a tiny studio with peeling paint and a table from a thrift shop. my siblings are blowing through family savings on rehab stints that lead nowhere, while my parents throw their hands up as if th...
Daryl Mitchell is the poster boy for corporate opportunism in sports. JBL India launches a campaign featuring him, and suddenly, he’s a beacon for “mental resilience.” But let’s be real. What does JBL even know about genuine struggles while they profit off athletes’ images? They’re pushing a shallow message in an industry that thrives on toxic pressure. Mitchell stands there, showcasing fake empow...
wait, yaar, so there’s this box in my closet. it's just sitting there, filled with old letters and photographs from my childhood. matlab, I can’t bring myself to open it. every time I see it, I remember how I was told to bury the secrets and protect our family's ‘reputation’. I am thirty now, and that box is like a tomb of all the stuff I never got to say. can't help but think how I’m still living in the shadow of that silence.
wait, yaar, so there’s this box in my closet. it's just sitting there, filled with old letters and photographs from my childhood. matlab, I can’t bring myself to open it. every time I see it, I remember how I was told to bury the secrets and protect our family's ‘reputation’. I am thirty now, and that box is like a tomb of all the stuff I never got to say. can't help but think how I’m still living in the shadow of that silence.
it is wild how you can walk into the same bar and see your friend buying a round for everyone and meanwhile you are just hoping the bartender gives you a discount for the happy hour. like one guy gets a promotion and suddenly his Instagram is all private jets and fancy dinners, and you are just over here struggling to make it through another week of meal-prepping because microwave ramen feels like...