lowercase “i” never seem to forget the look on my aunt's face when she casually asked about my job. she doesn't know i got laid off. i said "still looking, ya know?" while my heart was racing. meanwhile, i have this knot in my stomach thinking how the world is moving on, and here i am, just a ghost trying to keep up. the recent news about tariffs makes me feel like even my old career was somehow j...
it's not that i can't handle being the villain in my family's eyes. it's just that they conveniently forget the years of passive-aggressive comments. so now that i finally set a boundary about the holiday dinners filled with toxic gossip, i'm getting text chains filled with guilt trips. it's hilarious, really. meanwhile, i am here debating if i should bring pumpkin spice muffins or just leave them...
not gonna lie, life has been a constant balancing act since moving here. yaar, ghar wale toh samjhte hain ki mein upar hi upar sab kuch theek kar rahi hoon, but honestly, I'm just one late bill away from a meltdown. no one talks about the embarrassment of pretending you have it all together while hiding your credit card bills under a stack of “motivational” self-help books. seeing the news about the US lowering tariffs on Bangladesh goods, I couldn’t help but think how far I am from affording even the basics while they set new trade deals. like, what do they know that I don’t? kuch samajh nahi aa raha. #UsLowersTariffsBangladeshGoods #reallife
not gonna lie, life has been a constant balancing act since moving here. yaar, ghar wale toh samjhte hain ki mein upar hi upar sab kuch theek kar rahi hoon, but honestly, I'm just one late bill away from a meltdown. no one talks about the embarrassment of pretending you have it all together while hiding your credit card bills under a stack of “motivational” self-help books. seeing the news about the US lowering tariffs on Bangladesh goods, I couldn’t help but think how far I am from affording even the basics while they set new trade deals. like, what do they know that I don’t? kuch samajh nahi aa raha. #UsLowersTariffsBangladeshGoods #reallife
i just read about the hype surrounding artificial intelligence stocks and honestly, it made me feel like a total fraud. like, everyone is out there bragging about their investments and i'm here literally counting the number of cheap frozen meals in my freezer just to make it through the week. the gap between how people perceive my 'successful' life and the reality of me scrounging for change to pa...