“These are the same people that will eventually plague your life with questions like, “When are you going to get married?” or “Don’t you want to have a baby?” What they’re really asking is, “So where exactly do you fit into this framework of social acceptance that I have bought into?” They are judging you by their own standards, and you shouldn’t be made to feel inferior as a result of not conforming to them.”
This article is one of my favorite things I’ve written in a long time; please do check it out. Working for ROOKIE is the best.
I’d like to think I went to college as an old person to better myself but it was actually just people asking me when I would.
This is true and now I’m making this face: :-|
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This. All of it. I should print this out and hand it to everyone I meet.
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This excerpt, totally.
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CO-SIGN.
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