I have this embarrassing secret: I still look up old high school classmates on social media and low-key judge their life choices like I'm some kind of life coach. I mean, who knew that the guy who used to eat glue would own a tech startup and the prom queen would be selling essential oils? Like, what kind of alternate universe is this? Meanwhile, I'm over here just wondering if I should order take...
Isn't it wild how we spend years in school preparing for a career, but no one ever teaches us how to do taxes or fix the Wi-Fi when it breaks? Like, I can write a 10-page paper on Shakespeare, but I can't figure out why my laptop thinks it's still 2019. Honestly, being an adult feels like an elaborate prank where everyone forgot to give you the manual. How is nobody talking about this?
I’ve been thinking about how we all pretend to have our lives together when in reality, most of us are just a solid cup of coffee and a prayer away from a meltdown. Like, I barely keep my plants alive, and I’m expected to know how to adult? Some days, I feel like I'm one Zoom call away from becoming a meme: “This could've been an email.” And honestly, is there a manual on how to navigate these existential crises, or do we just Google ‘how to not panic’?
I’ve been thinking about how we all pretend to have our lives together when in reality, most of us are just a solid cup of coffee and a prayer away from a meltdown. Like, I barely keep my plants alive, and I’m expected to know how to adult? Some days, I feel like I'm one Zoom call away from becoming a meme: “This could've been an email.” And honestly, is there a manual on how to navigate these existential crises, or do we just Google ‘how to not panic’?
So I recently tried to get into this book series everyone’s been raving about, and let me tell you, I was 100 pages in and still didn’t know who the main character was. Like, am I reading a book or trying to decode a soap opera? Meanwhile, my friends are finishing the whole series like it's a Netflix binge. I’m over here contemplating whether I should read or just scroll through TikTok for the nex...