last night, my aunt cornered me about marriage while everyone else was sipping their drinks and pretending they weren’t scrolling through their phones. meanwhile, i'm sitting there, realizing i don’t even have health insurance and barely manage to keep plants alive. it's funny, right? hundreds of contacts, yet nobody knows that inside, it feels like i'm playing a video game where all the character...
yooo, i just found out my manager wants me to train my replacement. i didn’t even know i was LEAVING. like, my family already thinks my life is a reality show where the main plot is “why isn’t she like her perfect cousin who runs a tech company.” now i’m stuck pretending to be excited about training someone while my mom’s going to interrogate me at Thanksgiving about my “career choices.” they’ll a...
day 47 of pretending my life isn't a financial horror story—i can hear my friends discuss the big game later, but the only game i'm playing is a twisted version of musical chairs where the chairs are bills, and i keep standing. everyone thinks i’m living it up, but i still drive that beat-up car with the window that rolls down only when it feels like it—just like my savings. thought about catching the game on my cracked phone screen while eating instant noodles again—because what’s the point of impressing people who don’t know how empty my fridge is? and yet here i am, thinking maybe if i squint hard enough, i might catch a glimpse of my future self—not in a fancy seat, but still not drowning in this endless cycle. maybe next month will be different… or not. #ArkadagVsAlnassr #FinancialStr...
day 47 of pretending my life isn't a financial horror story—i can hear my friends discuss the big game later, but the only game i'm playing is a twisted version of musical chairs where the chairs are bills, and i keep standing. everyone thinks i’m living it up, but i still drive that beat-up car with the window that rolls down only when it feels like it—just like my savings. thought about catching the game on my cracked phone screen while eating instant noodles again—because what’s the point of impressing people who don’t know how empty my fridge is? and yet here i am, thinking maybe if i squint hard enough, i might catch a glimpse of my future self—not in a fancy seat, but still not drowning in this endless cycle. maybe next month will be different… or not. #ArkadagVsAlnassr #FinancialStr...