therapist suggested i was being too pessimistic about something i thought might not work out and i get to tell him tomorrow that it did not in fact work out
growing up i always thought people passing off john mulaney’s quicksand joke as their own was going to be a much smaller problem than it turned out to be
To me "I said" is a direct quote as it was delivered in the moment and "I was like" is a general paraphrasing of what I said that may include my interior emotional response plus the general unspoken vibe of the interaction
My spouse saying to the four year old about his brother, "He is telling you about it because he's excited, not because he thinks you don't know." And that, my friends, is also a lesson I need to hear.