Simss

Balancing between fantasy and reality

[Anubis @eduantao]

meu bloco de notas do celular é tipo

- lista do mercado
- carta de suicídio
- receitas fáceis

[Timmy_Turner @UthmanMusaYusuf]

My parent: “back in our days we didn’t go to therapy”

Me fighting the urge to say “it shows”

[TheJoyConnection + @Strategiceye127]

"Breaking News: Local dog makes a full recovery after receiving one snack. 😂🐶"

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

You can never be careful enough, just pray it never happens to you

[Ada🌸 @Starrgirl_Ada]

Me in jail because none of my signatures ever come out the same

[• يمنى♡• @yumnah_elkhabir]

THISS

[Roro ☃ @RoRoFli]

"We regret to inform you”

I'll make sure you regret informing me

[Zion @zionszzn]

I don’t mind being sick, but having a sore throat is where I draw the line

[JΛCΞ @jaceels2]

yeah sex is cool and but have you ever crawled out of the worst depression of ur life and got your spark back

[Harshhh! 🇮🇳 @Harsh_humour]

*I don't think technology will make me any lazy*

Also me when SMS OTP didn't auto fill :

[kage @sukikage_]

have you ever cried because you’re you

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

I have no more passwords left in me.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

pretending you didn't see something so the other person doesn't feel uncomfortable is a level of empathy not everyone will understand.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Simss @GoodFriendSUMI]

Frrr such a bummer

[𝒩 𝑒 𝒙 @Nexiraluv]

gifs when the joke is time sensitive