i just sat through another family gathering where the highlight was my cousin bragging about how she got into a law school that nobody in our family had ever heard of. my parents watched her with that gleam in their eyes, comparing me to her achievements like i'm just some project they failed at. meanwhile, i spent the whole evening faking interest in their small talk while secretly scrolling thro...
yaar, just came back from the family reunion and everyone was talking about their promotions, hai na? matlab, here I am, stuck at the same job since twenty nineteen, living paycheck to paycheck. my aunt looked at me and said, “poverty is just a mindset,” while I was hiding my mounting debt behind a forced smile. like, does anyone understand how it feels to pretend everything's okay when it's reall...
honestly, seeing that news about someone stuck in ice detention hits differently when you're standing in your empty kitchen at midnight, contemplating if making another bowl of cereal counts as cooking. I’ve been in my own kind of detention, locked in a job that suffocates my soul. I scroll through my social media, everyone else moving forward while I’m just... frozen. if someone could send me help instead of a text that says 'ok,' maybe I wouldn’t feel like I'm just existing in a state of suspended animation. #IceDetention #StuckInPlace
honestly, seeing that news about someone stuck in ice detention hits differently when you're standing in your empty kitchen at midnight, contemplating if making another bowl of cereal counts as cooking. I’ve been in my own kind of detention, locked in a job that suffocates my soul. I scroll through my social media, everyone else moving forward while I’m just... frozen. if someone could send me help instead of a text that says 'ok,' maybe I wouldn’t feel like I'm just existing in a state of suspended animation. #IceDetention #StuckInPlace
wait, so my cousin just dropped her latest international salary like it was a casual lunch date. meanwhile, i'm over here trying to make sense of coding theories while my bank account quietly judges my life choices. it's like living in a sitcom where the laugh track never plays for my “just got laid off” saga. oh, and the best part? nobody even knows yet because talking about my struggles feels li...