Helena Drömberg

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[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she's effortlessly beautiful.
In real life, if she wears makeup she's "trying too hard," if she doesn't she's "letting herself go," and there's literally no winning.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she reads before bed.
In real life, she doom scrolls for 2 hours, watches her screen time report in horror, promises to do better tomorrow, and repeats the cycle.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she's a "that girl" who wakes up early and thrives.
In real life, she watches "that girl" morning routine videos at midnight while eating cereal in bed.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she meets people organically.
In real life, she matches with someone on a dating app, they have great conversation, plan to meet, and then both ghost each other because texting strangers is exhausting.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she parallel parks smoothly.
In real life, she sees a parallel parking spot, drives past it, circles the block three times looking for a regular spot, and parks 10 minutes away instead.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she's spontaneous and adventurous.
In real life, her idea of adventure is trying a new coffee shop, taking 15 minutes to decide what to order, and then getting her usual anyway.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she runs into him on campus looking effortlessly cute.
In real life, she runs into him on campus wearing the same hoodie for the third day in a row, holding a coffee that's mostly anxiety, and her brain stops working mid-sentence.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she posts confident selfies.
In real life, she takes 94 photos, hates them all, uses the front camera accidentally, sees what she actually looks like, and doesn't take photos for a month.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she has a signature style.
In real life, her style is "whatever was on top of the clean clothes pile" with a side of "does this even match? Too late, I'm already outside."

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In college romances, they work on a group project and chemistry happens.
In real life, they work on a group project, she does 90% of the work, he shows up to the presentation, and somehow everyone thinks he's brilliant.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she checks her phone casually.
In real life, she posts something, checks it every 30 seconds for the first hour, panics if there's no engagement, and considers deleting her entire account.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she lets things go.
In real life, someone said something weird to her in 2019, she's analyzed it 600 times, has 4 theories, and still doesn't know what they meant.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she knows when to stop talking. In real life, she says something, realizes it sounds weird, tries to clarify, makes it worse, keeps talking to fix it, and ends up in a 5-minute monologue about nothing.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she calls people when she needs to.
In real life, someone calls her, she stares at the phone in horror, lets it go to voicemail, reads the voicemail transcript, and texts back "sorry I missed your call."

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In my book, she meets him at a college party.
In real life, she meets him at a college party, they talk for 20 minutes, she thinks it went well, then sees him on campus and he acts like they've never met.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, college is a romance novel.
In real life, college is a romance novel, a horror movie, a thriller, and a detective story all happening at once while you're running on 3 hours of sleep and instant noodles.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she smooths every corner with military precision.
In real life, she gives the blanket a half-hearted tug and immediately rewards herself for productivity.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she grocery shops with a list.
In real life, she makes a detailed list, forgets it at home, buys random stuff she doesn't need, and still has to go back for milk.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she casually mentions she's single.
In real life, someone asks if she has a boyfriend, she says "no," way too loud, then overexplains why for 3 minutes while everyone stares.

[Helena Drömberg @HelenaDromberg]

POV: In books, she waters her plants regularly.
In real life, she remembers her plants exist only when she sees a dead leaf, overcompensates by drowning them, and somehow they die anyway.