How Are We Supposed to Plan a Future Like This?
on gawd Is Anyone Okay Right Now? … didn’t think so, but I still keep feeling like I’m falling behind. Not in a dramatic way, but in a quiet way. In a “scrolling at midnight, everyone else building something concrete” kind of way. Careers accelerating. Opportunities multiplying . Five-year plans spoken out loud with confidence. And I’m sitting here thinking: how are we supposed to plan a future like this? Yesterday I woke up to a 4 a.m. text from my dad: “Mi hija, I don’t want you to work at a restaurant forever. No, no and no.” Not that I was planning on it, but also life is hard, and also I’m just a girl, fuck you, LOLOLOL. Somehow that felt like exactly the tension of my entire existence. Parental expectations, real-world pressure, and my own brain screaming about how little I actually know what comes next. The world feels loud. Every week there’s another headline that makes everything feel unstable. Wars unfolding, powerful people exposed in ways that confirm the worst suspic...
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