no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you
you're trapped in a marketing bubble and 5 hour tiktok scrolls where this is all you see. women in my life and getting double degrees, building homes, moving countries, running entire households, with matcha and gym being just a few things they during the day. shut the fuck up
the whole point of making money is paying for dinner for ur friends and buying a little gift for your cousins and getting flowers for ur parents and giving it away to ur neighbors and every once in a while following a little dream in ur head
I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living.
The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress.
Enjoy what you can-walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it.