We know way too much about Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden for me to believe Taylor Swift is having a wedding at Madison Square Garden, but I’ve been wrong before.
I kept texting my ex-coworker after she quit. Just memes. Funny stuff from the office. “You’re missing this chaos.” She’d reply with laughing emojis. We did this for months. Then she stopped responding. I figured she moved on. Made new friends. Forgot about our inside jokes.
Kept sending memes anyway. Once a week. No responses. Just kept going. Felt stupid but couldn’t stop. She’d been my work best friend. Only person who got my humor.
Six months of silence. Then one day. “I’m so sorry I haven’t replied. I’ve been in treatment. Depression got really bad after I left that job. Your memes were the only thing that made me smile some days. I’d read them in group therapy. Saved every single one. They kept me going”
I sat at my desk crying. Had no idea she was struggling. No idea those stupid memes mattered. “Why didn’t you tell me?” She replied. “I couldn’t tell anyone. But knowing you were still thinking of me. Still trying to make me laugh. It helped more than you know”
We meet for coffee now. Once a month. She’s doing better. Showed me her phone. Folder labeled “Hope.” Every meme I sent. Hundreds of them. “On bad days I scroll through these. Remind myself someone cared enough to keep trying.”
I still send memes. But now she responds. And now I know they matter more than I thought.
—Jake M., Texas
I’m losing faith in my fellow Minnesotans. I made my reg Saturday supply run to the grocery store. Many empty shelves. People-it’s a snowstorm. No matter how bad it gets, you’ll be out and at ‘em Monday. This isn’t Little House on the Prairie.
Some protesters have reported being hit with rubber bullets close to the scene of a reported shooting in north Minneapolis in the area of W. 25th Street and Lyndale Avenue N.
Federal agents have deployed chemical irritants as they try to push demonstrators further from the shooting scene. Updates here: https://t.co/uqRv2lj9ef
@carlypearce just listened to your post on instagram - coming from a former pastor - holy shit and thank you from all the church girls, but me specifically.
I have coached 21 classes this week and I have no voice and my body hurts. I have 3 more tomorrow. How tf is Taylor Swift upright and talking after the eras tour?
Don’t say it’s money. Let me live.