When I was 4 or so I asked my mom why does the moon follow me home (in the car)? And she said because you're pretty. 🤭 I remember that sometimes when I see the moon following me home.

We always battle this every single day. Where we have to be old enough to think for ourselves but young enough not to rush about making super major life decisions. Where old should be respected and followed, and tolerated.

What are some funny things that happened in 2024? I was just reminded of the olympics 2024 and raygun's performance way pretty funny but also embarrassing for all the other breakdancers that participated. They were all talented professionals that deserved to participate in the olympics. I don't think i can breakdance at all and i would probably look so awkward and funny to watch.

btw you don’t need to give me your phone number or actual apple id you can create a dummy one and we can do it through that

i am looking to make friends but i just think this would be a great starting point

plus we can just play games whenever we run out of things to talk about

if you’re interested lmk!!

i’m 22 btw

I recently joined a new class, and there’s this girl I really like. I’ve seen her around campus before, but we’ve never spoken. I really want to get to know her and at least be friends first, but I always overthink things. Either I hesitate too much and say nothing, or I overdo it and come off as too intense without meaning to. It’s frustrating because I feel like I just don’t know how to strike the right balance.

To make things even more complicated, I’m older than most of my classmates, and I don’t think I’m particularly good-looking, which makes me feel even more out of place. I keep wondering if she’d ever even notice me or if I’m just wasting my time. At the same time, I don’t want to psych myself out so much that I never even try.

I don’t want to mess this up, but I also don’t want to let my own overthinking stop me from ever making a move. Has anyone else struggled with this? How do you approach someone you like without making it weird or overcomplicating things?

This post is about American culture. At Halloween, American kids come to their neighbors doors in costumes and say “trick or treat”, and are given candy.

Overall, the holiday is pretty innocuous. Wholesome even.

But I can’t help but point out trick or treat means give me a treat or I will play a trick on you (which usually involves some sort of egg based vandalism).

Am I being pedantic? But this sounds like a tradition that could use some tweaking, right?

I love the concept of desire paths. They’re pleasing, amusing, fascinating, beautiful… I don’t often think of them even though they’re everywhere but when I remember to think about them, they make me happy.

I also love how much softer skin gets after showering. Then everything else feels softer too. Your partner’s skin, your cat’s fur, your fuzzy blanket, your comfy sweatpants… It’s like life gets softer and sweeter.

What are some small things in life that you really enjoy?

I’ll spend the entire day procrastinating, telling myself I’ll “do it later.” Then suddenly, at 2 AM, my brain decides it’s the perfect time to clean my entire room, plan my life, and start a side hustle.

But when I actually have time to be productive? Nope. Zero motivation. Just me scrolling my phone like a potato.

Why is my brain like this? Does anyone else experience this or am I just broken? 😅

I've been struggling with anhedonia due to depression for a while, and cooking just isn't as fun, as it eating. I live on my own, so I meal prep, but not many meals that serve as breakfast or lunch freeze and thaw well. Even since I'm making burritos, life has gotten easier. No longer needing to spend much time to create a healthy breakfast at 14:00, just throwing one in the microwave and toast it in a pan. Along with a cup of filter coffee, I also have a protein shake with it (I love the banana flavor, sometimes I add cacao and it tastes like those flavored straws you drink milk through). At moments I feel creative and energetic, I make these in bulk. I fill them with rice that is slightly undercooked so it doesn't get soggy, along with a mixture of canned beans, fresh bell peppers, yellow onion, spicy spices and a tiny bit of tomato sauce for consistency and flavor. I also like to mix in crème fraiche and the cheese (old cheese dissolves well), to save time and messiness filling the burrito. It also more equally flavors the burrito. Sometimes, I will add fresh spinach to the sauce. I do believe this is making it nog only look healthier, but it also makes me feel better than without it.

Of course the burrito could be stuffed with anything else, like salmon, lentils, curry, eggs and bacon, and I have so much I have left to explore. The burrito really is the perfect food for me because: It's portable You can make it healthy You can vary with the ingredients It stays warm for some time It freezes and thaws well It's easy to prepare in bulk It doesn't (have to) make a mess when you eat it There is minimal cleanup The burrito wrap itself doesn't get soggy I strongly dislike affordable supermarket breads, and even the sourdough bread is very limiting in terms of what healthy (affordable) things you put on it. It can also not be prepared in advance and it's expensive.

I spent 30 minutes this morning in my idea of heaven! I found myself alone sat on a sofa in the waiting room of a waxing salon waiting for a friend with a dog asleep on my left side and another dog on my right side who was a bit more skittish and I managed to calm her down to the point where she fell asleep with her head on my leg.

There was music gently playing on the background and I was sat there cuddled up with these two beautiful dogs and I just sat there and I've not felt so calm and so happy in such a long time, I was quite sad when it ended!

It made me think, what's your idea of how to spend 30 minutes of heaven? Please keep it clean but I've put it NSFW just in case!

I'm 18m and I was hugged for the first time in my entire life on my 18th birthday so even despite it being over 3 months ago this is all still very new to me.

It was from a teacher who is literally the most indefatigably kind and patient person I've ever met in my entire life, and I will never in a million years forget that first time.

She'd offered several times in the time she's known me (my family life is a MESS and she's been accidentally sucked into a few too many crises so she gets it) but I always said no because I was terrified and conflicted for a plethora of reasons and I also didn't think being hugged was ever something I was supposed to experience but it finally happened on my birthday. She was the only person who knew/acknowledged it was my birthday and asked twice to hug me, but despite refusing/changing the subject both times, I wanted to say yes and we both knew it. But it was so close and all I had to do was say yes so it was absolutely killing me until long story short, it happened.

It seemed like one second I was stammering awkwardly and the next she just lunged forward and hugged me. My brain seemed to short circuit for a second and I froze. It took me like 10 seconds to even realise I was supposed to hug back, then once I finally did, she just hugged me tighter and I broke down crying. It was a huge moment for both of us. I mean this is someone who, two years ago, I was still terrified of and dead set on making hate me, so this was apparently a big victory for her too. She kept telling me she was so proud of me and we stood there for several minutes like that until she finally pulled away, and yeah... That was the first time I was ever hugged. She suddenly hugged me again just a few moments after that first one "just because" and then made a deal that it would now be our new Friday thing to mark getting through another week.

So it is. I meet her outside her office at the end of the day on Friday and get a hug and it seems like not a big deal to people but it means so much to me. It's unbelievably safe and everything horrible just kind of stops for a couple minutes. You could probably have guessed by now that I didn't have great childhood and my parents were both horribly abusive so physical contact is a HUGE thing for me but this is different. It doesn't hurt, it doesn't scare me, it's just safe. Another factor is that I'm incredibly physically stunted (malnourished) so I'm super small and skinny for 18 and my teacher is also taller and (I learned this the hard way several years ago) stronger than me and it's super crappy abused kid maths, but I'm very aware that she could hurt me if she wanted. Never has, is horrified by the idea, but still could, so it's an even bigger deal that I'm able to give up control by being basically held that close by an adult.

It's fascinating. Seriously. My heart slows down almost instantly, I stop trembling, I stop feeling sick, everything just stops for a minute. I get to just lean my head against her shoulder for a couple minutes and just breathe and everything is just quiet and safe. Sometimes it's the only thing that gets me through the week.

Idk if it works like that for everyone or if it's just amplified for me because of the contrast with how I usually associate physical contact, but wow. It's seriously like immediate onset benzos just without any downsides.

But the weirdest part is how little thought everyone else seems to give it. I see parents hug their kids, friends hug each other, people on TV hug each other, etc. but they all seem to give it so little thought. Act normal before hand, act the same after.

On one hand I'm jealous, but also not? Like I spent 18 years wanting to be hugged, especially from an adult who cares about me, so I see a different side that most people don't seem to appreciate, where I know what it's like to never be hugged. It's not great but I never knew how not great it was because you can't miss what you've never had so it never really occurred to me how much people take hugs for granted until now.

Idk. I'm rambling I guess. Just curious to hear other thoughts on it, or maybe I'm not the only one who feels like this.

It’s funny how sometimes we make choices that feel right for us, but we still feel the need to justify them to people around us. Whether it’s a career change, a personal decision, or something as simple as how we spend our free time, there’s this pressure to make sure others understand why we chose it. Why do we do this? Do we seek validation, or is it something deeper?

I come from a decently stable family in terms of money and I could buy stuff for myself but for some reason I just don't feel like buying anything cuz it's not my money. Feels like why should I use someone else's money even tho it's my parents. I don't buy new clothes, new pretty much anything cuz I feel immense guilt, anyone can relate? I feel crazy lol

Bringing back manual cars could make driving safer because they require drivers to use both hands and feet, keeping them more focused on the road and less likely to get distracted.

Unless FSD really takes off or we skip multiple generations to end up in the Jetson age.

Around the end if December i got really sick, I suspect it was norovirus, but ever since I haven't had any beers or booze. I didn't notice until a like a week ago that I hadn't had any alcohol since around Christmas when I had a beer at party. I don't booze like I used to when i was younger (hangovers basically kill me nowadays) but I still like my beers and so forth, so I don't feel too different. I haven't been craving drinks. Last Saturday I went to a concert and was meeting up with someone at a bar, but even then I went with a non alcoholic beer (by athletic brewery, still very tasty). I didn't have a single beer at the concert, so that saved me a few bucks. There's some good beers in the fridge and I think there's some decent whiskey in the house, but I'm tempted to see how far I can go with this streak. It's not like I'm raw dogging reality, as the kids say, I still partake of thc in a few forms, but I feel like I've cut down on that too. I've had the cart in my vape since before Christmas, there's been a few instances where I've gone a few days before I use any weed, which is great because when I do I get nice and stoned. It's not like I've turned my whole life around either, I'm still not going to the gym, I'm still occasionally buying pointless stuff (I spent like 10 bucks on hot wheels the other day), and of course I'm still going out to eat way too often.

I keep hearing that we actually have 13 months not 12 but no one ever mentions the name of that month. The one that is missing. It would be more beneficial to have 13 months, especially as a woman. Our ovulation would coincide with 28 days of each month and be more in line with a lunar cycle. Each month would have the same amount of days and would further coincide with the zodiac.

You know how parents are the most boring and annoying creatures walking the earth in the eyes of every teenager. Well, my teenager had some friends over this last weekend. As usual I didn't really pay attention (and often don't even understand what they're talking about) but since they were hanging in the kitchen discussing some apparently super-popular singer that I never heard about I started beatboxing just to annoy them a little. Like a terrible, dad-level beatboxing! And they lost it! They laughed, they wanted more (as if I knew how!), tand I let them film me for TikTok - really hope it's not going viral...

My daughter told me later that none of her firends could imagine their parents do something silly like that in front of others and that they now call me Mr Beats (apparently there's some popular youtuber Mr Beast I learned). I'm sure it won't last but it's cool to be the cool dad again in the eyes of your children, even if just for a while.

So I guess the message is don't worry to be silly and make some fun of yourself, your kids will love it!

I live in a really conservative household so I can't show my legs or my shoulders or anything which makes dressing cute for the summer and spring really difficult. In winter I can get by with cute hoodies, coats, and like layering clothes but the same can't be said for the summer where it'll be too hot to do that. It's just annoying me now since spring is gonna come around in a bit and I can't find any cute inspo for outfits that I would be able to wear. Not such a big deal I guess but I'm always left feeling a bit insecure during the warmer months because of this...😭

If you just get any plastic bottled milk and put in your freezer can be mini fridge freezer this is great for college kids! Don’t let it freeze all the way- and shake it untill it’s your desired consistency. You don’t even need a straw! Tasted like a frosty. New fav thing 🥰

For the past 3 weeks, everyone I know has fallen sick.

Weirdly, it all started in my workplace (in UAE), as my employer decided to come "Back to Office" starting January'25. But it's not just the normal flu; everyone who has been affected is getting way too sick.

It was me who fell sick last week, and I have never felt this worse in a "cold flu" ever before. After self-medicating for 2 days, I rushed to the hospital and the ER told me it was going to take 50 mins. 45 minutes later, they asked me to go to the 2nd floor, as due to a lot of patients, they had started ER on the in-patient floor.

I understand it was the holiday time and there's a lot of across the globe and people sick during this time, but its not the normal cold flu this time that just gets better in 3-4 days

But it's not just the UAE; MANY of my family members in South Asia, and America, and my colleagues in other offices in the Middle East, have fallen sick, and took them more than 12 days to recover.

Hasn't anyone felt the same lately?

So yesterday I was returning home in a public bus, it was quite crowded, so I stood in front of a seat and was reading Kevin Mitnick's 'Ghost in the Wires' on my phone. After a while, one of the guys whose seat I was standing in front of got up to hop off the bus so I took his seat and went back to reading.

After a while, the bus seemed to clear out. I looked up once and glanced around, and that's when I saw a girl in one of the reserved for ladies seats at the front. Damn, she was the cutest woman I had laid my eyes on. She had mousy hair that fell just below her shoulders and big, intelligent eyes. We made eye contact a few times. I tried to get back to my book but I couldn't help glancing over.

After a while, the bus crossed by a park with a road that went by it. This used to be the very place me and my ex used to hang out and had tons of memories in. This snapped me back to reality and I went back to my book.

My stop was coming close, so I put my phone back in my pocket. I looked at her, and she seemed to have fallen asleep, though she woke up almost immediately, her eyes fluttering open groggily (she somehow looked cute even while sleeping wtf, I swear I look like a disfigured monkey while sleeping). I got up, and we made eye contact once more, and I called over to the conductor letting him know that I was gonna hop off.

When my stop came, I jumped off the bus, and the bus started rolling away. I looked at the bus again to catch one last glimpse of her, and there she was. She had turned over in her seat (her seat was facing away from the window) and looking right at me as the bus moved away. We looked away as soon as we saw each other looking.

Nope, I didn't take her number. It's one of those moments you appreciate and then move on from. This, however, affected me in more ways than one. It opened my eyes that there's a world beyond my ex, who I simply couldn't get over no matter how hard I tried.

Oh, and did I mention that girl was really cute?

I've saved up a whole lotta cash over the years in my childhood and now I want to buy an NBA Jersey with a custom name/number on the back.

Thing is is that it's about $180 from where I am from... Which is A LOT for essentially a singlet but I don't think I've ever spent my money on something fun in basically ever so I want this to be the first time I do so... My family is obviously super against me buying it, mainly because

$180 IS A LOT

So should I?

Me (male) and my brother don't really look alike so it's understandable but we have the same hair and eye color so I mean like i thought people would get it more but apparently not. The amount of times we have been mistaken as a gay couple is astounding.

Not sure if it's just my particular friendship group but nobody seems to post on social media anymore. I remember back around 2009 people stopped going out quite as much because they could just save the effort and hang out online instead. People still went out at the weekends but going to the pub during the week to be around people and was less common. Now I'm seeing that people go out even less, and nobody seems to use social media either, and it feels like people are more disconnected than ever. Sometimes when I'm tired or bored I just wish I could scroll through a facebook or instagram feed for some low effort interaction but all I see is influencers and random clickbait, and almost no actual people sharing anything. Not sure what point I'm getting to here but just curious how this looks to other people.

Go show the ones you love and care about how much you appreciate them being here. We dont know how long well have them for, and the plane crash in washington really made me realize that when this father said he lost his wife and daughter. If you are a father, go hug your daughter and kiss your wife. If you have siblings, tell them thanks for being here. We all dont know how long well will be here or how long our loved ones would be here, and its worth it to show them while we still have the chance. Even if youre scared to hug, or not used to opening up, its so worth it. It will make you feel better. I promise. ☺️

Long title lol but exactly what it says! Did anything amusing ever happen on the day after your all-nighter?

I recently watched a very intriguing TedEd video on how all-nighters affect the brain ( https://youtu.be/idrbwnWLJ7w?si=wCYoPxEtfF0kjidH ) and some of the comments were HILARIOUS lmao!

Someone said they worse comically different socks to their exam the next day and my favourite was someone answered their GERMAN exam fully in ENGLISH 😭😭😭🙏🙏

I need more of these laughs (and another reason to not pull one). 😝🤝

I use to play a bit of ps2 and N64 growing up, but once I hit 15, I had to sell all of it and haven’t really picked it back up at all.

I rented a ps4 from Rentacenter for Spider-Man when that came out, and tried a few other games, but found I lost interest in the repetitiveness of it all.

I don’t think I’m abnormal, but I’m pretty clueless when I hang out with seemingly a lot of guys, i would really rather be doing anything else. I usually just watch and provide commentary lol

It's necessary to read-between the lines in-order to determine whether or not information is relevant.

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I’m not sure what it is about that form of media, but I cannot focus on it without ending up distracted on my phone or wanting to do something else. I can focus on my work, a book, or podcasts all day without losing focus, but if I try to get into a new series I always end up having to rewatch episodes or I get completely lost

I was putting away dishes one day when I heard a strange noise coming from the garage. Curiosity piqued, I quietly crept towards the door to listen closer. To my surprise, I realized he was singing in perfect harmony with the radio, completely unaware that I was there. It turns out, he has an incredible voice! He's never mentioned it before, and now I'm wondering what other hidden talents he might have