Sometimes you can have the life everyone else wishes they had and still feel miserable living it.
That’s the part people don’t see.
You smile, play along, say you’re fine… while a part of you is begging for something different.
Maybe freedom starts with finally admitting you’re not happy.
Belle du Seigneur 🎬
She nodded once.
“Alright.”
She handed over the badge and left.
Forty minutes later another employee produced a receipt and the hallway camera clip. The associate had brought the yogurt in that morning. The supervisor had taken the wrong one, eaten it, then blamed her when she noticed it missing.
HR was called. The supervisor had nothing to add.
They offered the associate her position back. She declined, collected the hours they owed her, and never returned.
I was sitting on the curb with everything I owned stuffed into 3 trash bags, watching the last of the daylight go, when an elderly woman crossing the street with her groceries stopped, set her bags down, and asked if I had somewhere to be that night. I told her the truth, because I was too tired to build a better answer: no.
Maybe Doctor Doom has bigger problems than world domination,like explaining why humanity is casually ignoring a dead Celestial sticking out of Earth’s ocean...