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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 1 MAY 1965
You've been "about to start the gym" since January.
It's October. The gym has had two owners and a refurb in the time you've been about to.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your birthday cake now needs a risk assessment. The candles are outnumbering the years…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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