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DAILY DEMOTIVATION

A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.

ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION MONDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 1978
They say sweat is weakness leaving the body.
Yours has decided to stay.

— Zack, unqualified

VERIFIED
UNHELPFUL

PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE

  1. They're on a comeback tour. It's the fourth. They have never been anywhere long…
  2. Mistakes were made. Nobody made them. They just happened, like weather.
  3. You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
  4. Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
  5. You have an eleven-step skincare routine. Your sleep schedule has none. The serum is…
  6. You're "on a gap year". It's your third.
  7. Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.

THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR

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