Last week, I went to the gym for the first time in at least a year. Most likely longer than that. It felt incredible! The satisfaction that comes from committing oneself to a full, rigorous gym routine is unmatched. The next day, it felt terrible. It's easy to forget how hard muscle aches hit you after you get back to working out. I expected it, but I was definitely not ready for it. I've gone a few times since then. Now, I kind of think of it as positive pain. My muscles are doing their thing;…

If you know, you know. Growing up without a lot of money is a pretty specific experience. Obviously, the degree to which you experienced financial woe is a sliding scale. No one person's experience is the same as the next. The main things that I remember, at least from childhood, are things like utilizing the free lunch program at school, receiving ridicule for what I was dressed in, never taking a vacation, living off the least expensive food possible, and having the not-so-quality house that…

These two besties are living their absolute best lives instead of their Absolut boring lives.

Have you ever had an existential crisis in your life? One time, maybe, you thought about the fact that you won't always be here, and that freaked you out. Well, that's being a human, buddy. At some point, in some place, in one way or another, we'll pass on through this earthly realm. It's incredibly scary to me, but it's scary for every normal person, so at least we can all bond over the limits of mortality and how we'll plan our funerals. But have you thought about what you may put on your gra…

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It ain't all bad

You're (probably) not at death's door

To say life isn't fair would be an understatement. I'm currently juggling a million responsibilities, the existential dread of the era, and trying not to absorb the pain of everyone else and everything else that currently surrounds me. It's really difficult to keep it all together. Add that to the prohibitively high cost of therapy and a psychiatrist, and the cocktail isn't one that really makes one feel loosened up. The depression gives way to anxiety, which makes me so tired that it turns bac…

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You probably didn't even get to drink your coffee while it was still hot today—you deserve a memes break.

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As much as my spoiled ass complains about my childhood trauma, I could never ever claim that I was an unwanted child. Despite the fact that my worst bully told me my parents wished I wasn't born. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've read my mom's diaries where she yearned for kids , and felt surprised that my city-dwelling father wanted to procreate right out of college. Unfortunately, this isn't a universal experience. Redditor u/SniperGlizzy took to Twitter and asked people who had c…

It makes perfect sense that many of us are having existential crises. The past two years have been nothing short of hellish. Pandemic. Now war. It's all very anxiety-inducing . But the worst part of it has been how much time we have had to consider the reality of life and mortality. During our very extended quarantine - the “Stay the F*** Home” era - we had nothing better to do than scrutinize how we spent our days before we were stuck - and how we would like to spend them in the future. Many o…

Are people working too much?

Adulthood sucks

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