YES!!! I recognized it as a Goosebumps cover instantly too! What a blast to the past, I loved those. This one is from book #4 “Say Cheese and Die!”

POV: You’re 12 years old and your family is on vacation at your extended family’s homes

Thank you for sharing our history 💜 Kurdistan is one of the most progressive places in the Middle East. No one in my family told me what god to believe in if any. My parents taught me values of feminism, human rights and peace, and I see the same values shared by my siblings and cousins in Europe. Of course there are problems, but as my parents taught me, take from our culture what is good and do better than the things we did wrong. Long live Kurdistan!

Is it viable for you to get your own apartment and turn off yor phone?

Maybe once you experience isolation, you’ll find that you miss human interaction after all, or you are happy living alone.

You just dug up the rap song Happy Birthday by Flipsyde ft. Piper from the depths of my memory after it had been buried for 14 years.

A foggy quiet morning. It reminds me of how my mom would walk me to kindergarten.

It’s fine. Growing up I also shared a bed with my sister who is 8 years my senior. We didn’t always have a good relationship with our parents which probably made us all the closer. Like you said, sleeping in the same bed, nothing weird.

As a man: Prepare to be rejected over and over, to feel disposible and useless, unwanted and nobody likes you and you will never be as good as other men and you might as well end it now.

As a woman: Prepare to meet men who have the biggest mommy issues, to be called an entitled bitch and everybody who likes you will promptly abandon you once they figure out who you really are.

These apps prey on your worst anxieties about yourself, and then sell you the remedy: An outrageously expensive subscription to skip past the chaff and find your true life mate. Except, then you’d leave the platform, and you’d stop paying up. Match group is busy gobbling up every dating app they can get their hands on and they will stop at nothing to turn them all into the same steaming pile of shit.

How’s the weather in Moscow today?

Destroyer is a band whose lyrics I consistently love

“She needs release, she needs to feel at ease with her father (pause) the fucking maniac.” (from European Oils)

“A snow angel’s a fucking idiot somebody made. A fucking idiot someone made in the snow” (from June)

“I piss on the floorboards, the whole world’s a stage” (from Eat The Wine, Drink The Bread)

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lmfao you are a genius

99.9% confident it’s calories in calories out

Wouldn’t mixing with a wide variety of ages from 18 to 118 be better?

You will work in the NHS or the firefighters and so on, so you will certainly engage with community members of all ages and from all wakes of life. For a year of mandatory service that everybody is meant to complete, 18 is arguably the best time to do it.

slavery

When you walk on a public road past a hospital do you think to yourself “they stole my money to build this”? You have rights and duties as a citizen. Your service benefits the community as a whole.

Also why is the stick to make people do it a fine (so that the rich will just pay if their kids don’t want to do it)?

I fully agree with you on this point

I’m in the same boat, almost left in 2022 but didn’t go through with it. Time will tell if I made the right call.

Thanks for sharing your experience!! I really appreciate the long genuine post. There’s a lot everyone can learn from your experience.

i get what you’re saying, you match with other guys all the time but being on one wavelength with one is a different story. i guess i just wasn’t made for these apps.

please be careful dude, it’s mega bad for your mental well being and especially your self worth

that song is where this phrase found its way into my vocabulary - didn’t expect it to be that recognizable. makes sense tho as the correct expression would probably just be “pastime” whereas “pastime activity” is unique to this song

Definitely. I’ve had more jobs through applications (2) than dates through apps (0) ^^ The best I’ve got was an extended conversation with a guy who seemed kind