Have to fly to the US in 3 days and don’t know what I am going to do. I just feel so sick with grief having lost so much in the past year and now losing the basic foundation of life i.e. family and friends in India seems a bit too much to bear. I wonder how people do all of this. How they uproot themselves and put themselves in completely new environments. I wonder what motivates them.
I’ve been truly thinking that there is a certain level of ambition that an international student needs, to even put the hat in the ring. Millions of Indian students have done so and will continue to do so. Some will certainly not be seeing their homes for a few years. Some will never return. And yet they keep moving in life. This kind of ambition is so admirable because nothing tethers them to places. They go on constructing newer lives.
I wish I was headstrong about this but I am not. I am afraid I’ll land in Boston next week and wont have my home to run back to. Send help God. Tone down these emotions.
We used to talk a bit many many years ago when I was on tumblr and I recently remembered you again so decided to come back to check the tumblr out. Want to say that i'm so happy youre gonna go to harvard!!! Congratulations, you deserve it!!
Thank you for remembering me and for this sweet message!
i come back from a book and its like how the hell are you people just going on like this. didnt you read the book with me. how is the real world so disconnected from the whole book world i just experienced
hi to my fifty something active followers lol. I haven’t said more than a few sentences in the past few years but thanks for sticking around. Just wanted to post about!!!!!! something happy for a change. I am going to Harvard for grad school this fall 😩 !!!!!
Like the fact is, being a gay stereotype when you’re gay is actually quite fun and spending years of your life trying to avoid doing it for the approval of homophobes is not fun.
if youre so freaked out by regular gay sex acts and kinks that you make bullshit jokes like “im homophobic now” when you encounter something you personally dont like maybe you should. take a step back and examine that. or at least shut up and stop making it other ppls problem
and just in general like internet gays will call feminine gay guys fruits and say shit like that to or about total strangers and… how is that much different than a homophobic straight person saying that. sure make those jokes about yourself and with your friends who r cool with it but being gay doesnt make it okay to say homophobic shit to other gay people
and yeah before you ask i actually DO think its that deep
“Those opposing eggs reportedly include Hindu religious leaders such as Sri Vishwaprasanna Theertha Swami of the Pejavar Mutt in Udupi, Channabasavananda Swami of the Lingayat Dharma Mahasabha and Sadhguru Mate Satyadevi stated the news report. They have demanded the immediate withdrawal of eggs from the midday menu.” Theertha Swami of Pejavar Mutt has reportedly claimed that the inclusion of eggs would “force-change eating habits of vegetarians” adding “the government should not include eggs as there will be kids from other communities. Schools are not places to change the lifestyle and customs of children.” Lingayat leader Channabasavananda Swami told the media there will be protests if eggs were not pulled out of the menu. “Schools will turn into military hotels [which are eateries that serve non vegetarian food] when eggs are served. There will be strong protests if this is not withdrawn immediately,” he told reporters.”
— ‘Why does the Karnataka government not want children to eat eggs at mid day meals?’, Sabrang India
The cultural impact of “boomer” as a pejorative has been disastrous and I’m not even kidding
Gen z is not exceptional. Large swaths of gen z propagated Facebook-uncle tier misinformation to smear Amber Read for speaking out about their favorite pirate actor. People are convinced “deadass no cap on god” is “tiktok speak” and not butchered AAVE. Many are already starting to define themselves as a generation of work ethic and meritocracy, unlike those whiny debt-riddled millennials. It’s becoming humiliatingly clear that this generation is not exceptional, it’s not radical just by virtue of being young (and we won’t be young forever), and it’s not going to fix everything “once the boomers die out.” We are speedrunning the stereotypical “hippie to Reagan voter” trajectory of the boomers, whose counterculture at the time frankly puts ours to shame. So are you going to put in the work, or are you going to gloat about being young and special and then shit yourself when you turn thirty?
