Glorification? There was zero glory in my addiction. It was truly the most excruciatingly humiliating and degrading experience you could possibly imagine. I wanted to commit suicide almost daliy, but didn’t have the courage for even that. Instead I’d reach for the pipe or the bottle. The cowards way out. The guilt. The shame. The hurt. The absolute misery of it. Yet here I am. And I am not alone. There are millions upon millions of us. We don’t all agree on politics or people or who we root for on Sunday. But we all have the shared experience of walking through that fire and surviving. I chose to live. That’s not a joke.
During his divorce, Jack Welch’s first wife busted out decades of dinner invitations, seating charts, and correspondence to prove that he could not have written to the top of the corporate world without her meticulous cultivation of relationships among the elite
“Cook like your grandma!”
Meanwhile, our grandma’s recipes are like:
Mix crisco with ritz crackers, a cup of sugar, & a few drops of food coloring, then bake in a jello mold with processed cheese product. Top with mayonnaise or miracle whip, for the health conscious
A lot of people are playing a character they don't enjoy, and they think they're stuck that way forever because switching characters would be out of character
Never in my entire life have I actually sent an email at 8:00 AM. If you receive an email from me at 8:00 AM you can rest absolutely assured that I schedule sent that mess at like 1:27 in the morning.
“How petty are you?”
2021-11-24 23:32 GMT-5: A man on this app condescendingly & unseriously told me to check back with him in 5 years how an opinion of mine would withstand the test of time. I penciled it into my calendar and have lain in wait. The day of reckoning approaches.
i saw an article called "make peace with your unlived life" and it really made me stop and think. so much of our lives is mourning for what we didn't become. It's a waste. we didn't waste any opportunities. what came and went was not meant for us.