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TUESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2025
Some meetings could have been an email.
You'll spend four years of your one life in them. Nobody took minutes.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your favourite music is now called "a classic". So are you. It means old.
- Coffee doesn't fix Monday. It just makes sure you're fully conscious for it.
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- Everything happens for a reason. The reason is you. It's always been you.
- You've been "about to start the gym" since January. It's October. The gym has…
- Treat yourself, they said. You did. Four times before lunch. Your pension felt every…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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