This is just random but it's frustrating having to constantly move my arm so the lights come back on. I'm sorry I don't dance my ass out while taking a poop in a rest room, just stay on till I leave! Even just washing my hands not enough for this light to stay on

That's pretty much it. Mainstream musicians are such lame asses these days. I know they are "performers" but does everything they do have to be so "performative"? I'm pretty sure there are ways to promote yourself without being such a try-hard.

i remember there was this one time at a family event where they had a father daughter dance, 12yo me and my 9yo sister were the only daughters who didn't get to dance that day. we watched all of our cousins dance with their dads from a far pretending to be uninterested. we could have danced that day if only my father wasn't a deadbeat.

I'm 21M, GenZ, and I've personally never been interested in any of that social media fluff: Never had Instagram, never had Facebook (apart from family and friends and even back then I've hardly visited it), never EVER had Tiktok, any of that bs. Just YouTube to chill and kick back and this pretty throwaway account that has no correlation to who I am irl). I just never got what's the point of all of it. What it's truly for. I guess it's made to make you waste enough energy and life resources away scrolling endlessly while it shows you ads at your face and makes billionaires and huge tech companies a little bit richer?

Apart from:

• Gooning

• Actually using it for something productive and being a creator in social media ( a hustler, and even then it depends on the content of what you're making), other than an user who does nothing but consume and occasionally fight battles in comment sections

• Connecting with your family and nearby friends who you know irl to meet up with them from time to time, or get to know what they're up to in their lifes, yk, what social media was originally made for

• Just chilling back and relaxing while watching or consuming something low-friction like a dumb "Karen" video, memes, True Crime, or some relatable bs, or some goofy wild story that doesn't affect your life in the slightest;

Apart from that, social media doesn't worth to much of anything.

Like, discussing ideas? Hell nah, I can always do this in real life, way better and has way more friction, which is good for your mental health (you never stay in a bubble or echo chamber where everyone agrees with you in those algorithms you're trapped to). And like, discussing things online with somebody, specially politics or "hot topics" like social issues is the absolute DUMBEST thing you can do on social media: Nobody is ever going to agree with you, or change their views of their word because of you, no matter how truthful or twisted they are, and nobody will ever get to be like "you know what, I think you're right, fair game", like no, there might even be a few more "sane" people like that, but most people are going to be fighting you over and over again, and most of what you're going to get, is get cursed at or expelled, canceled or ratioed for saying something the masses​ of "sheep" think. Nobody agree to disagree no more. Everybody be fighting on their same points, over and over again, on a discussion that changes absolutely nothing in the world. You being a keyboard warrior fighting for the "rights of people", virtually, ain't going change nothing, like ever. You're just being used as a tool to make some billionaire a little bit richer by making you waste your time thinking you can change anything with just words, and you're being part of that process you criticize so much. It's like, you change nothing and nobody cares about your argument at the end of the day. You're just 'bout to become some dead Twitter/Facebook post that nobody cares, and somebody will then later dig up 10 years later, in order to make some YouTube video, memeing on you.

For sharing things? I guess, but you don't need to share absolutely every single thing about your life online. That's kind weird. I still lowkey share that "old-school boomer" mentality that you shouldn't share everything about your life online and that you should disclose as little as possible information of your real life on social media. Not only for maintaining your privacy, but for your own safety as well.​​​

I lowkey, like, don't get what social media is for then, who is it for, or why anyone would ever use it to the point where they look like a crack addict or something scrolling an entire afternoon away while discussing random shit that don't matter with people on there, instead of doing anything productive or a least a little bit more useful with their lifes. I just don't get it, I can't get it.

my parents and the neighbour recently agreed to do a roof repair with someone they found

he ultimately never shows up, it's another team he subcontracted without our knowledge

i told my parents not to go with this guy and off i went to my university class, i was already running late

i come home and the new guys are working on our roof, it seems the neighbour insisted on getting it done asap cos it's almost winter and my parents agreed

and the new guys have been horrible, not following the contract, rude and unprofessional attitude, throwing stuff around

when we politely ask them a question the boss sucks his teeth and rolls his eyes and walks away

i want to yell at him so bad, we're literally paying you! but i don't want him to do a shitty job in retaliation

...money which I will probably never have access to. I envy those who do.

I don't even know where to start. Does anyone else feel like life is out to get them? I'm trying so hard not to be in the victim mindset but c'mon.

This story is an analogy to my life.

I was driving to work. I took a different route to avoid traffic. I had taken this road before a handful of times so I didn't use maps. Then there was a lane for right turn and left turn. I accidentally went into the left lane instead of right. We're sitting at the light for a couple of minutes and I'm giving my blinker for the right turn.

Light turns green. The first car passes by then the next then the next.( I would've turned left but it wasn't a protected left so the incoming cars from the other side held up traffic in my lane.) Then this last car finally stops and tries to let me go. But by this point I've accepted the fate and that these POS drivers are so petty they won't let one car in front of them. Then I'm just so pissed at that one car that's actually trying to help but its the final car so I just started crashing out in my car.

That's how my life is. Everyone treats you like shi then someone tries to help but you can't accept it because you're already traumatized. This isn't what I wanted to rant about.

Im finally making money but I'm still trying to do shi myself. But omg the hurdles. Why is it that it's so difficult for me to fix anything. I'm so freaking mad rn. Why does mine have to be so different than others. I know Christians would say well look god is giving you tough challenges because he's trying to teach you something. I don't need challenges just surviving is a challenge for me. I literally can't do anything and even when I attempt it. I run into so many obstacles it's literally baffling.

TL;DR: I'm a crybaby and life is out to get me

I recently joined new comapany few weeks ago due to more money. There are only 3 people who work in my department. But apparently this co-worker who joined the same time as me complains about how unhappy he is and gossips about how bad other people are during work hours. Not to mention the training is not good at all.

I can't take this anymore of this gossip and hearing complaints. Its driving me insane. I didn't have that gossip and complaints in my last 2 jobs.

I feel like leaving for another job with same pay or more since I have like 3 years experience in my field.

Should I keep on staying or leave for a better job once I get an offer ?

My team is small, and we have a singular forklift for 5 people to handle e-commerce orders and large bulks for Bezos and Walton (I'm not sure if specific company names are allowed on here.)

I'm gonna try to keep this somewhat quick, but I've been fighting for roughly 6 months on the safety and effectiveness of this machine. I've had everything in writing the entire time. The issues with it, the fact that it very rarely even turns on, I've explained in writing the dead hours that have been spent sitting restarting this thing to no avail.

Recently, a tech came out to look at it again and the document is a bit shocking. It FINALLY was confirmed in writing that the machine is unsafe and needs to be sent out for further repair, if reparable at all. This was last week.

We have two main players here, Manager (M), and CEO (C). I've been telling M since April that this machine is at the end of its life, because I know replacements can take time and money. He claims he's been speaking to C the entire time about it.

So nothing has worked up to this point, M is still expecting us to try and do our jobs with this dead machine. Yesterday I texted him to ask, "When will you and C be here in person so I can discuss with him myself how severe this now EMERGENCY situation is?"

I also explained, if we can't load trucks, we have no profit. Can't pull items down, we can't label them for Bezos or Walton or whatever. The only thing that seems to have worked was essentially asking when I can inform Daddy of M's negligence.

I think yesterday was the first C heard of the dead lift at all, because suddenly M went from "rentals are expensive and take months" to, "rental will be here Monday".

He just didn't want me talking to his boss...

And suddenly a new replacement machine will be to our warehouse in 3 weeks.

Did he just think this entire time I've been being dramatic or hyperbolic? I'm still absolutely planning on continuing to be very loud about this issue, because it's both a safety and productivity issue. Sigh.

Editing in: I fully intend, also, to speak with C regardless, even if it's something as subtle as "I appreciate you handling the rental situation for us, I know it's been a long while and a frustrating situation". I'm fully anticipating a response like "it's been a while?" So then I can explain that yes, this issue has actually been written about via email for multiple months, with all communications regarding it seemingly ignored, or shifted to in person where the discussion can't be proven as having taken place

So I was offered a job by my pastor last Friday! She said the job was guaranteed and that they really need help at her daycare. I was so excited because I've been struggling to find work even with my references & experiences; it feels like I'm being black listen in my little small town.

I told her that i would be happy to work for her but since my car is out of commission I wouldn't be able to work this week but I will be happy to start fresh on Monday.

Because my car didn't work I asked my sister to turn in my paperwork for the job and guess what she doesn't! So I had my bf mom turn it in instead; it's 3 days late but my pastor didn't say anything about it so i assume i was in the clear. Especially when i couldn't really control the circumstances.

Flash to today, my car is finally getting fixed after sitting for months at a friend's house and I give my pastor an update on what's happening and if she needs me this week im can mostly stop in since i will be having my car fixed.

This is where it starts to go downhill! She tells me that my position has been filled and that she doesn't need me anymore and that i should maybe try next time. This really broke me because this daycare job was something i was really looking forward to kinda my ticket to finally moving out since the pay was good.

After hearing the news suddenly my car while being fixed, is suddenly overheating and needs to be seen by a real mechanic! Because my “friend” who is fixing it said he only knows so much, and even with a new radiator or tube it is still overheating.

So now im back to square one! No job, no car! I feel so lost becauce it feels like ever day I'm losing a battle.

It's about one of the societies there. So, I'm into literature, right, but it's not the "ooh I memorized Shakespeare's sonnets" kinda thing. It's more that I just like writing proses and essays and reading books and poems kinda stuff. I do it because it makes my time enjoyable and I learn so much from it and not because this is where the depths of my heart bloom into a crescent of pearls and roses n shii.

But this soc that I applied for, and got in, is like weirddd. No disrespect to them—maybe it's just that I'm seeing things work like this for the time ever in my life and that's why it feels this way—but heyy I'm allowed to feel, right.

So, this is a poetry society and everyone there = incredible poets. I sometimes feel so left out among them. For instace, we have this event coming up and everyone's preparing for it, having fun, making memories, and all that. But I'm just there, like, they're all friends now except me (obviously, or I wouldn't be here rn). Reason is that they're all soooooo active in the gc like always texting there, making funny stickers of each other's faces, teasing e/o, etc. and we also had an event before this where I couldn't go but THEY ALL DIDD so yeah, they've had more exposure of each other and "groups" have formed.

Even when I try to talk to someone there, it just comes off as awkward, and they don't seem too interested in newbies either. Note that I'm talking about the members recruited this year, not the junior or senior cores, they aren't even there much. It's just the new members preparing mostly, and our seniors guiding us.

BUT I FEEL SOOOO WEIRDDD HERE. Like if I don't contribute, I risk getting kicked off (which, frankly, isn't a big deal but I wanted to make the most of it) and when I do try contributing in any way, it just ends up in me sitting alone on the side and everyone doing their own thing in their groups. Another big reason is that my core classes don't even happen in the college premise. We need to commute b/w the department and the college (which is at ~1.5 km of distance). I spend most of my time in the department since only a few of my classes are held in college. AND BECAUSE OF THIS GODDAMN ARRANGMENT, I CAN'T EVEN BE PRESENT AROUND THEM SO HOW TF AM I GOING TO MAKE MY SPACE THERE?!?

It's just infuriating sometimes with spasms of sadness and this unwavering feeling of "wasting" the time I should be spending in having fun and making memories with new people. I'm coughing on the dust of nostalgia that hasn't even settled yet, and I just wish that it wasn't this way. That I wasn't this way.

To be honest I never felt like I belonged with people that I belonged in this world. Just being here as time goes on makes me feel like I’m not supposed to be here. I feel as though I live on a different plane than other people while the others are on the other side. I try to reach happiness there but it is out of my reach causing me pain. I am meant to be in this plane I’m in do not belong in the other so I must find happiness here but struggle to find it. I wander this world with my soul a loner feeling out of place. With other people I could only be a guest but never truly have a home of my own. I spent so much time staring at the other plane I neglected to realize my own existence. I’m just not normal, time to close the curtain and focus on what’s actually there. Will I find happiness here? I have no idea after all I shouldn’t be in this world in the first place. Still I might as well try and find it to make the time I spend in life until death more bearable.

-20f

I'm currently in my 5th year in my undergrad, and I went to my cousins house tonight to bug them for a bit. My aunt knows that I'm in school for music, but I guess didn't know what the degree title was specifically. While having dinner she asked what my degree was, so I told her Bachelor of Arts Honours. She then following up with 'then what's your thesis?'. I don't have to write a thesis, it's considered an honours degree since I'm specializing in music and its not considered a 'general degree'. She then said it 'isn't an honours degree, then', and that it was a liberal arts degree. I'm in performing arts, so it can be categorized as a liberal arts discipline, but it's still an honours degree. Also, I've been in school for my degree for 5 years now and switched to my BAH 4 years ago, I'm pretty sure I know what I'm taking and it's classification. She just didn't want to be wrong and it got on my nerves 😭

Imma be honest I can't handle online relationships or anything. If you want to get ahold of me, come see me in person or call me.

I did not open a guys snapchat for 4 days because I work 12s or 16s 4 days in a row and I don't feel like opening a dick pic when I'm exhausted.

He deleted them and was like not responding for 4 days is rude. Like I know but this is me, just see me in person why do you have to text me too?

I met two other friends like this! They'll delete it after a day or less and it's not even important!!! It's just chat!!!! Like!!?

I am an extrovert but texting is exhausting, too many people to text, and talk about?? Im trynna live my life, if I need a break I don't wanna talk, or I'm busy being with family or cleaning and I need to focus.

I randomly get energy to text and talk to people but I get overwhelmed with who to text and the fact they'll be upset that if I disappear in 10 minutes they'll be angry, or text back in 5 hours, or a day.

I don't wanna try to hold a convo about nothing when I can be doing other things

it is INSANE how common this is among native english speakers! honorable mentions: they’re vs their vs there and breath vs breathe. this is first grade shit 😫 why and when did being dumb become so acceptable?

I dared to enjoy two cookies today so now I basically have to have half of dinner. Why is everything so fucking calorie dense 😭
And theres like no low cal options in my town and I'm sick of buying fresh veggies that rot within one day. Also veggies are not filling at all. I hate dieting. I work on my feet 9 hours a day and try to exercise and yet I'm still consistently gaining weight.
Just wanted to bitch. I feel better now.

It's disheartening and disturbing that there is a SUCH a lack of empathy in current day society. What happened to kindness and helping others out? I don't know if it's due to the social isolation that GenZ experienced during their developmental years (because of COVID), or whether it's because times have changed but I feel as though there is such a lack of human decency from GenZ, as a member myself. I strongly believe that COVID and the such high exposure to the internet and anonymity that it provides has made so many individuals bystanders to either situations online or in person. If somethings wrong SAY SOMETHING. Who cares if you're going against what the crowd is doing??? DO THE RIGHT THING and PUSH & ADVOCATE for it. I'm sick and tired of hearing children getting hurt either by others or themselves because nobody did anything to prevent it. Bullying has been out of control. I truly wish there was less of a desire from both my generation and people in general to be liked from the public. If we didn't as much, there would be more people stepping up and calling either for help or for attention when issues arise. Please, I urge you all, if you haven't already, to start thinking independently and critically. Think about what is right or wrong, argue ethics. Stop waiting for someone else to do something when YOU can.

I'm also sick and tired of the tremendous amount of people who always complain and never do. Seriously, if you have enough time to sit around and complain, DO SOMETHING to support/help! There are so many ways, either active or passive, to push for what you believe should be done/is right.

I wish I didn't feel so alone in this fight for bringing back the unity that humanity once had.

I dated a girl a couple of years back. I know I don't miss her, I miss the way she made me feel. I miss the memories and how I felt during that time. I truly feel like she was my first true love. Because of her situation we didn't work out. We tried to rekindle a few times but it never worked for various reasons. Never anything having to do with our compatibility tho. She's gorgeous, but she's changed and she's well within her right to change wether I think the change is bad or not.

I don't know why but I cannot for the life of me get over her.. she had a boyfriend and I know it's wrong of me but I can't help to think "seriously.. THAT guy??". And he treats her amazingly from what I've heard and I'm haply for her but I guess a little jealous too? I would never go back to her but I can't get over that feeling we had..

I'm dating someone new. And I love him, he's amazing. But I know he will never make me feel the same way she did.. no one has ever been able to make me feel the same way she did.. and for some reason I feel.. guilty? Guilty that he doesn't make me feel like that.

I had to unfollow the girl on instagram. I saw a new post of hers and she seemed really happy.. and I'm happy for her. But our memories are too fond and for that I cannot keep her around.

PRETEXT: the very bottom will be my main issue, this body paragraph is to just understand my situation
And I’m sorry this is so long, I just needed to write this out somewhere, I’m not feeling well right now so this might not be EVERYTHING but it’s everything I’m thinking about right now

(18m) Still in high school and I feel that with how I’m living, being this sad feels entitled(I’m not sure how to properly articulate what I mean). To preface I live with well enough off parents who are willing to help pay for college, pay for part of my insurance, and be supportive. And I feel that because of that feeling sad doesn’t seem right.
Throughout my time in school I have been through a few sports(baseball, golf, archery, a little basketball), yet I came to despise each one of them because I didn’t like the prospect of competing that much, I just wanted to play for fun. So one by one I moved through each sport, my parents were very supportive throughout, and when I quit each, I’m not entirely sure how they felt, but they still supported and loved me.
So I needed a hobby because sports always felt like I had to give it my all for a potential future in it, and I experimented with many types of arts, crafts, etc. and yet I found myself never satisfied with my progress in any kind of art, until I found music.
It truly feels like music has taken over my life over the course of my time in high school, I love listening to an entire artists discography to understand their psyche, I spend free time studying music, and practicing any instrument I have. I’ve played guitar for 4 years, bass for 3, piano for 1, and drums for less than a year so far. I am completely and entirely self taught and spend as much free time as I can muster playing music.

I feel as though my parents feel the same way of me playing music as they did when I quit each sport. It genuinely hurts me to say “they don’t understand me” but I feel as though when I finally found a hobby and thing to commit everything to they just feel “meh” about it. It feels this exact way with my friends as well, I have never practiced a single song with any of my friends with THEIR instruments which barely get played. I have good friends, yet when the opportunity comes to hang out or play online, I have an overwhelming urge to not and just play or listen to more music on my own, I don’t know why I feel so insistent on self imposing loneliness, but I just rely on music to feel good.
In short, I feel as though I have been scrambling for a long time for something I can commit to, to love doing, yet when I found it, I’m lonely and feeling this lonely hurts and I don’t want to talk to anyone else about it because it feels selfish to impose this weight on someone else I know.

hii guys i’m 21F and im very lonely ive lost alot of things since i was 16 and i find it very hard to let go of. I come from a financially unstable family my parents moved a lot to be able to afford a good life for me and my sister.

I feel horrible being sad even though they sacrificed so much for me and i feel selfish. I missed out on a lot of parties, my graduations and had to leave friends behind and i was temporary always. Theres so much happening in this world and im here in my room sad over stupid stuff. I also have a loving bf who might be growing sick of me and i don’t blame him i cry alot im always sad everything is a huge thing for me, my small loses make me miserable i also got horribly back stabbed from my only friend group 2 years ago and till now i cant stop thinking about times they hated my guts and i never noticed.

Im trying to recover from an ed i hate my body and my face and my voice its like i blame myself for everything i think if i was someone else this wouldn’t happen to me maybe i was cursed im already a shame for my family so i dont know if i would even risk getting therapy because that would be like admitting that im made wrong.

so my flatmate keeps cooking in the kitchen from like 12:00pm at night sometimes till 2am like he is currently lol and my room is right next to the kitchen so I can hear literally everything. the walls are really thin and even if they're humming I can hear it, and it's starting to get on my nerves but I don't know whether to do anything about it or speak to them as they're leaving the flat soon anyway..

Gotta vent about this today. I used to drive 1000+ miles for work every month in Massachusetts, USA so I have seen a lot of driver behavior. I now reside in the Denver metro in Colorado. Both are bad with phone use but Denver seems much worse and it is driving me nuts!

Get off your phone. You risk your l!fe or someone else’s. There is NO safe amount of handheld use. Your tiktoks, tweets, instagram reels, texts can ALL wait. If it really cannot wait, pull over with your hazards on, or find a safe place to park.

Today I ended up honking at a driver who was listing back and forth in his lane, speeding up then slowing down, weaving in lanes, etc. and I could see he was using his cell phone, looking down and up again. This guy had the gall to brake check me then flip me off. Buddy, you are risking your own l!fe and the l!ves of everyone around you. Get off your phone. There is no excuse.

Whew, rant over. I just don’t understand it. Who on earth truly believes it’s safe? It’s been well-known to be danger0us since I was a child, and I’m almost 30.

If you’re reading this and you regularly use your phone while you drive, you know better. Stop it. I refuse to be nice about it, if it hurts feelings then good! Keep your eyes on the road and arrive al!ve!

Note: some words are censored because reddit filters keep taking this down, and I can only guess that some of the words are why.

I am Deaf and have both learnt ASL and I also use hearing aids and speak fluent English as well as being semi fluent in others. So the argument that doctors make that ASL prevents communication, learning and other things is incorrect, you can have just as fulfilling of a life even if the only language you speak is ASL.

I believe that the parents and doctors should work together to make the best decision for their child, and if that's learning oral language with hearing devices that's great! I have nothing against hearing devices, my hearing aids help me a lot in my life as I am surrounded by people who speak oral languages everyday, it is totally a valid option, my problem is that they completely either ignore ASL or other sign languages as an option or try to scare the parents by saying it will somehow ruin their child, which is absolutely not true

If anything, allowing a child to be surrounded by a language they can understand without struggling and being around people who also have hearing loss can build community for a child, while in mainstream, Deaf children often have to struggle in school because of lack of accommodations, get bullied, have social isolation etc. Ofc a Deaf child can thrive in mainstream, I have lovely friends and accommodating teachers, but I've also experienced the bad things a lot of Deaf children go through as well in mainstream.

I am so sick of hearing the n word! I don't care that our other friend "gave you the pass" I don't want to hear it when you could be using literally any other word. Especially when they are playing videogames together like my god ! I ask them to pick something else and it's "oh it's just a word, you're gonna get offended over a word? It's my first amendment and I don't mean it like that!" Like HELLO!? pick a different word!! 1. It's rude, 2. We are white!!! It's ESPECIALLY irritating when they use the hard r. Though it's just a word, it is obvious that they don't care about how they make me feel because I've asked them to stop and they won't. Furthermore, the friend who uses "the pass" excuse ASKED for it and now says it just as much as everyone else so ya know... I know I can't make them change, but I wish I could just see them become better people. It's just really got me feeling like the Breaking Bad scene where Skylar yells at Marie, but I know if I do some shit like that that I'll be the bad guy too.

Not sure how many can relate, I hope no one goes through it. I have been feeling kinda depressed for the last few months, and I could never share it to anybody because no matter how I try to bring up the conversation, they start bringing up their experience.

I tried being vulnerable once, and it felt so good. But I am not allowed to be vulnerable anymore. I keep my guard up all the time. It has been up for so long that I am afraid what if it comes down and I go to a darker place?

I came home after a very long time hoping to meet my school friends, I kinda expected everyone will invite me. Sadly, no one invited me and whenever I opened Instagram I see others posting stories with their friends and I see my school friends enjoying and roaming around.

It’s been 10 days I came to my hometown and I haven’t went out even for a single day other than buying cigarettes and thats it. No one to drink with, nothing.

I stay alone and I feel lonely because there’s no one to talk to. At least during festivals, I hoped that it will be fun and exciting. I was wrong. Looking everyone being beautifully dressed and couples holding hands and them enjoying with their family and friends, it made me feel jealous. I don’t wish ill for anyone, but I wish I was a part of it too.

I am gonna return to where I work in 2 days, and I won’t be having anyone waiting for me.