Gentlethem

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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I have a relative who was a brilliant student in school, studied law, moved to China, learned the language, always very high achieving and motivated to succeed in what ever she chose to do, seemed like she was aiming high career-wise, then she met an arab guy, turned muslim to marry him, got two kids, as far as I know is a house wife now. They live in the Emirates so life must be very restricted for her. We are not close but it was quite surprising that she chose a closed life and conservative religion instead of career. But like said, I don’t know her enough to know her side of the story, but I’m sure she’s happy with her life.

    A friend of mine, when I first got to know him, didn’t strike to me as a person with many goals in life and was at that point unemployed and living with his cousin, hadn’t really studied, wasn’t doing much anything. Well he got into gardening, wen’t to career school to become a gardener, one day he decides to become a landscape architect and study in the most top tier university in the country, so he just studied to the entrance exam like hell, failed a couple times and kept on pushing and finally got it. Very proud of him. Not the easiest path if you come from career school background. Also how the hell can someone be so motivated to bang their head onto the wall until they finally succeed?!





    1. Cold old house with memories about white cats, whipping sticks and aluminium candy wrappers
    2. Burning the old house
    3. Cat is my only friend but it has fleas and I slept on the livingroom floor because mice were making noise inside the roof and I was scared
    4. Alone but books, except that one time when I was napping and uninvited people came over
    5. When the periods came I was never ready and at that moment my childhood ended
    6. Moving away and back again and again, why won’t you just separate?
    7. I got a pair of fancy new shoes but others bullied me and I never wore them again
    8. Finally that shitshow ended and I’m on my own
    9. Years of angry and alternative truths
    10. Years of realization and actual truths
    11. What the hell am I supposed to do now?
    12. Darkness has settled but I can’t and the neighbours are banging doors and it sounds like shooting
    13. Finally something good
    14. And then people and animals die
    15. What the hell am I supposed to do now? Pt. 2