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if you can't beat 'em, forfeit? the dating game edition

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dating in this day and age doesn't seem to have the same appeal as the Netflix produced rom-coms suggest, and coming from someone who hasn't been on a first date in nearly 4 years - the odds of that number refreshing are as slim as the chance that i'll be walking down the centre of a room to wedding bells any time soon. long-winded for an opening line, but the sentiment is as full and overcomplicated as the sentence itself.  when i was 5 years old my parents would ship myself and my sister on the road with them to visit the distant relatives and even at that young age there were three things i could rely on occurring before the days end  zia would get emotional, hysterically crying as she insisted on one or ten more hugs before we stepped foot outside her home on the return to our abode there would be enough food to feed a battalion and leftovers to spare i'd be questioned about the whereabouts of my boyfriend, a dating profile and a save a date for the wedding  seems a...

adults are horrible people...

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Adults are horrible people. They are laced in the misfortune of their past and the yearning of their childhood.   All seems doable until a mundane fact swoops in to turn their train of thought into a sea of turmoil. The relationship with their brain is both too complicated and yet too simple. Yes and no answers are always laced with explanation, even when it is not required. Love is a fleeting emotion overcome by the desire of stability. Feet now planted firmly on the floor after being swung in the air.  Once laced with the depressants of liquored lust and sweet nothings.  Bombarded by the realities of documented lies and losses.  Unacknowledged endeavors now keep us up at all hours of the day. The nights then filled to the brim with unactioned conversations. We tumble around the 'will they won't they' trope. Until the clichéd unrequited love looms overhead bursting the bubble that is your ego.  Black holes seem like appropriate resting places. We're made to fee...

23 things about being 23 that seem to have generated too many emotions

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it's here, that dreaded odd number that swims by its lonesome. not old enough to be an adult, but not young enough to see the world through rose coloured glasses, doesn't sound all that fun to say either does it? during lockdown the doorbell going off with deliveries has never been such an exhilarating rush of endorphins, although their longevity is too short lived as the days continue treat yo self (lockdown parks and rec upgrade) is a dangerous game to play with your skin, but your tastebuds will thank you answering the landline as my local Police Department will always make up for those delivery lost endorphins, especially when it's the bank calling long lasting traditions being ceased is a real jolt of realisation, adulthood is hard and sadly friendships rely too much on proximity  yoga with adriene can make all the tightness in your body and in your chest settle, so be glad that you've got humans who keep you accountable for that please remember to insert your corr...