it's 3am and i'm scrolling through old photos of her, laughing in moments where I couldn't even see the cracks. marriage ki sab woh khushiyon ke peechay, jo duniya ko dikhte hain, apni asli kahani nahi hoti. ghar wale ab bhi bolte hain, "yeh kya dukh hai, jaise ki kuch hua hi nahi." bhai, unhone jo dikhaya, usme pyaar nahi, bas zindagi ke bojh ka dar hota tha. kisi ko nahi pata ki voi khushi sirf ...
it’s 10pm and the only thing keeping me company is a half-empty bottle of Merlot and the stupid question my doctor asked about my liver. every day I show up to work, mask glued on my face, pretending my smile isn’t hiding the shame of waking up at 2am just to drink some more. I laugh along with the coworkers who don’t know that my true dinner is a $6 bottle from the corner store. they wouldn’t bel...
so there I was, mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest while trying to get the burnt microwave popcorn smell out of my apartment. I stumbled across this DIY for homemade air fresheners and thought "why not?" fast forward an hour, I'm standing in my kitchen, arms covered in glue, with a bucket of dried flowers looking like I just stepped out of an 80s craft fail video. my roommate walks in, sees me knee-deep in this mess, and asks if I'm making potpourri or a cry for help. I'm literally just trying to add some 'ambiance' to my life, not unravel like a discount Martha Stewart... #lifehacks #nailedit
so there I was, mindlessly scrolling through Pinterest while trying to get the burnt microwave popcorn smell out of my apartment. I stumbled across this DIY for homemade air fresheners and thought "why not?" fast forward an hour, I'm standing in my kitchen, arms covered in glue, with a bucket of dried flowers looking like I just stepped out of an 80s craft fail video. my roommate walks in, sees me knee-deep in this mess, and asks if I'm making potpourri or a cry for help. I'm literally just trying to add some 'ambiance' to my life, not unravel like a discount Martha Stewart... #lifehacks #nailedit
I'm sitting in this startup pitch event, and while the others are talking blockchain and disruption, I accidentally asked the guy in a suit if his company could "scale up like my mom's roti." Everyone froze. I meant to say "scale up like Silicon Valley", but it came out so wrong, and he just stared at me like I asked for his social security number. I basically combusted and spent the rest of the e...