Nessa ✨

Artist. Painter. Photographer. Creative || ig: @lion.nessa ||

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[• @yducknow]

Pretending I don't know the work drama so I can get the tea from both sides>>>>>>>>>>>

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me watching “Incoming Call” that’s about to turn into “Missed Call”

[spicebae @spicebae_]

ima watch every second of these color mixing videos every time they come across my TL

[Nessa ✨ @SVNMAMI]

first time to Ikea, can’t find exit, it’s been days

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Came for a coffee. Found a son

[Cats That Make You Go Awww @CuteAdorableCat]

Expectation Vs Reality

[: @_dxllz7]

“It’s a 2 days trip”

Me

[☔ @Whotfismick]

how it feels explaining morals & principles to a grown adult

[✨💫Cali💫✨ @505Cali2]

👇🏼

[nina ✮ @lunarninaa]

tweeting but this is my audience

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Hear, hear

Let it collapse

[☈€ᗰ☡€↳ 🥀⭒ @ohremzel]

my problem is i always think i can get ready in 15 minutes when i have repeatedly proven that i can’t 😩😭

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

Me in my own room laughing at my own jokes cuz I’m hilarious

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing they can go to jail for smoking weed but every pedophile in the Epstein files is still free

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

He looks so proud of his achievement 😂