Why hot girls cry on their birthday
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Regrets are resolutions, and 27 other lessons I've learnt at 27 — sindhu.live
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Sindhu Shivaprasad added
"Many, if not most, inherently human triumphs are invisible, unsexy, and deeply personal. Inner work is impossible to describe to others and almost always goes unrewarded because it is not monumental in the conventional sense."
Coming of age in the time of social media has inflicted a great deal of psychological trauma upon me and those I love. Nary a birthday goes by without me wondering how many people posted “Happy Birthday!!” on my wall. For a while, that number determined how good of a birthday I’d have. For this and this alone Zuckerberg should be tried before the H... See more
and baby makes four???
Maria Potoroczyn added
sari added
It’s my son’s first birthday so in true millennial fashion I’m going to talk about me:
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It is an old compulsion to try to impose a narrative on our lives, especially when looking for meaning in our existence. But life does have a natural progression, a natural flow that Millennials ought to have simply participated in, and many feel it’s not flowing as it should.
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See more
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
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amongst the reasons i've theorised, the ubiquity of media (specifically, nostalgia-driven and self-referential media), where no one seems to age or "mature”(whatever that means). the other side of the theory involves, of course, capitalism. the oppressive conditions that might lead us to turn inward, seek distraction and perform a "simpler” time perpetually— to willingly blind ourselves to the crippling realization that we grew into a world much more hostile than any previous generation had to face. i miss vine, btw. dab and all that.
We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
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