Housing Prices
Car Prices
Interest Rates on Both
Student Loan Debt
Constant News of War
Salaries Don’t Match the CoL
Having to Work Two Jobs
Haircuts are $50
Braid and Silk Press Prices
Dating is Hard
Children Been Left Behind since 2001
…and WTF is that smell?!?!
2023 was a grief year for me. So many major parts of my life got uprooted, and I had to become a different person just to keep up. I’m proud of myself for evolving, but losing so much in the process of gaining the things you wanted is so heavy.