it's not that i care about my ex's engagement post, it's just... yaar, mujhe realize hua ki friends kabhi strangers ban gaye hain. sab busy hain apni life mein, aur mai akeli hoon. kisi ko call nahi kar sakti jab mai low hoti hoon. hundred contacts hain, par kisi ko nahi pata mai kaise mehsoos kar rahi hoon. adult life kabhi kabhi itni lonely hoti hai, main sirf choti si outing ka sapna dekh rahi ...
wait, so I just realized that my neighbor thinks I'm rich because I have a really nice garden. like, I spent all last summer planting flowers while trying to ignore that I have credit card bills hidden in my sock drawer. I even overheard them say how lucky I am. but they don’t know that I’m reusing the same box of cheap cereal I bought months ago. it’s a fancy facade until… oh god, if they only kn...
it’s not that I’m drowning in debt, it’s just that I ordered the kale salad for lunch—then hid the receipt under my phone like it doesn’t matter. my neighbors think I make bank just because I wear the same sneakers as that influencer, but honestly I can’t remember the last time I bought myself a new pair. I'm smiling at all these strangers while my credit card balance haunts me in the dead of night—like a horror movie where the real monster is my bank statement.
it’s not that I’m drowning in debt, it’s just that I ordered the kale salad for lunch—then hid the receipt under my phone like it doesn’t matter. my neighbors think I make bank just because I wear the same sneakers as that influencer, but honestly I can’t remember the last time I bought myself a new pair. I'm smiling at all these strangers while my credit card balance haunts me in the dead of night—like a horror movie where the real monster is my bank statement.
last night, i watched Lindsey Vonn nail a comeback with a ruptured ACL and thought, wow, what a warrior. meanwhile, i tripped over a literal air molecule trying to get from the couch to the fridge. like, my biggest athletic accomplishment this month was finding a remote buried under a pile of laundry. my friend who always acted like they had their life together just bombed an interview, and honest...