😓 Flex's Flops: Pets, Diffusers, Tate vs Teachers, Quadruple Emailing 🤢
We can only know good if we acknowledge the bad, right?
Another week of existing, realising things and documented because that guy said an unexamined life is not worth living.
💅🏾 Pets
In particular, not having one.
I’m convinced my quality and life would both improve and rapidly decline the moment I decided to invest in a sweet creature. Similar to what people say about having children.
As someone who didn’t grow up with pets, I’ve unfortunately missed out on the formative experiences that make the whole thing seem chill. All I can feel is the crushing life altering weight of keeping something alive … and all the impulsive holidays that I will now have to opt out of.
I also don’t want to be that person who treats their pet like an accessory that happens to breathe. No! I want to be invested in their upskilling, trainining, lifestyle, mental health and fashion sense.
💍 Planned Obscelence
If you haven’t heard of this practice, prepared to be shaken to your core. Planned obsolescence is a business strategy where a product is deliberately designed to have a limited lifespan or become obsolete after a certain period of time.
*cough* Existing iPhones mysteriously breaking or running out of battery life the moment a new one is released *cough*
Which in turn encourages us to replace our stuff more frequently, thus stimulating continual demand for new goods!! My one-year-old diffuser randomly stopped working a couple of weeks ago, and I attempted to troubleshoot by buying a new cord, switching powerpoints and cleaning all the parts. NO, STILL BROKEN. WAS PERFECTLY FINE. NOW, NOT FINE. Leave me alone!!!!!!!!
👿 Quadruple Emailing
Someone tell my Real Estate agent to get back to me about the exhaust fan in my bathroom not working. There are no windows (very commonplace in new builds) and I’m scared of the potential mould consequences from all the scalding hot showers I plan to take in the near future.
🦒 Thoughts-To-Time-Ratio
I have so many thoughts and so little time to share them. My notes app is overflowing with future episodes, thus my brain is feeling extra crammed. It needs release. An intellectual climax have if you will. I want to kiki about the Candid Girlfriend video, the claim that neurotypical and neurodivergents are easily clockable because of the way each take selfies, and ofcourse all the Australian teachers quitting because highschool boys are Andrew Tate-pilled. Send help!!