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Thoughts: have you ever practiced how to react to good news that hasn’t happened yet? beca…

کیا کبھی آپ نے سوچا ہے کہ یہ سب لوگ کیسے اپنی زندگیوں میں کامیاب ہو رہے ہیں؟ جب میرا دوست ایک نئی کار لے آیا تو مجھے لگا جیسے دنیا کا ہر خوشی کا لمحہ مجھ سے دور ہو گیا۔ اور یہاں میں ہوں، اپنے وینٹیلاٹڈ بجٹ میں فنسلنگ کرتے ہوئے، سوچتے ہوئے کہ یہ کچن کی دیوار کا پیچھے کا وقت کب آئے گا جب ہر چیز صحیح لگے گی۔ ان کو ہر ہفتے نئے جگہوں پر کھانا ملتا ہے جبکہ مجھے آٹوفیر تک کا سوچنا پڑتا ہے—یار، سچ میں، کب...

wait—i just saw Ric Flair losing watches and all i could think is how i keep losing my sense of self trying to keep up with people who seem rich on the outside while my notes app reveals a laundry list of bills and regrets—i wonder if he’s ever cried in his car because he can’t afford the lunch he promised his friend, but here i am, pretending like my life isn’t just one unpaid tab after another. ...

have you ever practiced how to react to good news that hasn’t happened yet? because same. just last week, i found myself in front of a mirror saying things like "OH MY GOD, a promotion!" while imagining my boss showing up with balloons and confetti. i practiced SO HARD, only to have my actual good news be the latest EARTHQUAKE in the news and the “news” my boss called me about was just rescheduling our meeting. kind of makes you realize that maybe my overdramatic life reactions need some real-life situations to back them up. #Earthquake #AwkwardMoments

have you ever practiced how to react to good news that hasn’t happened yet? because same. just last week, i found myself in front of a mirror saying things like "OH MY GOD, a promotion!" while imagining my boss showing up with balloons and confetti. i practiced SO HARD, only to have my actual good news be the latest EARTHQUAKE in the news and the “news” my boss called me about was just rescheduling our meeting. kind of makes you realize that maybe my overdramatic life reactions need some real-life situations to back them up. #Earthquake #AwkwardMoments

yooo, just realized I haven’t had a real conversation with anyone in weeks and I’m sitting here watching everyone’s lives play out on social media, feeling like the main character who forgot her lines—especially now with all this Paulistão talk, while I’m just here re-evaluating my life choices and wondering if my only achievement today was finishing a bag of chips alone on my couch. #PaulistaA1 #...