You ever been dead broke but God still supplied your every need ?๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
DAD: โAt your age I already had two kids.โ
ME: โHow much was your apartment?โ
DAD: โAbout $650.โ
ME: โMine is $1,850.โ
DAD: โYeah but salaries were lower.โ
ME: โWhat did you make?โ
DAD: โMaybe $35,000.โ
ME: โI make $58,000.โ
DAD: โExactly. You make way more.โ
ME: โMy salary went up 66%.โ
DAD: โRight.โ
ME: โThe rent went up 185%.โ
Long silence.
Then he asked if I had considered getting a roommate.
I'm starting to think percentages only count when they're convenient.
Yโall get cheated on so dmnn much that y'all started normalizing it... "every ngga gon cheat" whole time it's a MAN out here that won't even look a btch way cause he got a WOMAN/YOU
I cried today because I just want to experience a season of life where I'm not always recovering from something. It feels like there's always an ugly truth I'm having to confront, a belief I'm having to unlearn, more work to be done. It's exhausting and lonely.And yeah, I get that life isn't fair and that you have to just keep going. But i keep being resilient when what I'd really like is relief.