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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
MONDAY, 2 MARCH 1998
"It's just a phase" is a phrase you'll say for eighteen years.
You're the phase they'll describe to a therapist.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Monday motivation is a myth. Like the Loch Ness Monster, a clean office microwave,…
- Your back now goes out when you sneeze. It goes out more than you…
- Your savings account isn't empty. It's a memorial.
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
- You said "it's giving" about your own life. It's giving overdraft. It's giving rent…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
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