How To Tell If You’re Desperate
Your hand hovers over their name in your phone, agonizing for minutes which somehow become hours, weighing the pros and cons of saying something as simple as “Hey.”
Your hand hovers over their name in your phone, agonizing for minutes which somehow become hours, weighing the pros and cons of saying something as simple as “Hey.”
“Also must remember not to mouth along the words to all my favorite parts, lest I look like a crazy person.”
Wear your hair in a more flattering way, do your makeup, cinch in your waist — try to be that facsimile of the beautiful girl.
Yes, it’s hard to actually take that leap and write that crazy-person Facebook message at two in the morning about how much you still care about them or how you feel like they’ve been ignoring you of late, but write that crazy-person Facebook message you must.
5. The traveling you’ve been meaning to do always falls by the wayside.
The kind of conversations that only happen over a slightly-hung-over brunch with friends, because you’re all just a little too achy/out of it to care about pretenses.S
The two of you let what would have otherwise been a hasty sleep to an uncomfortable morning-after become something that lasts all night.
I am completely surrounded by women who hate their bodies and will always find them too big or too ugly. I hear, day in and day out, plans to get thinner, ways to work out harder, and humblebraggy exchanges about how much you’re doing to make yourself look more like the person you want to be inside.
“Could someone please inform me the next time my makeup is melting off my face like a sad clown painting because these bathroom lights may have been the worst way to find out.”
I could not imagine anything more presumptuous, more condescending, more inappropriate given how much she has done in comparison to me.