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How do you pick yourself up after getting your heart broken?

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I had to quit my job not long ago to recover from burnout, and for some reason I decided to start using Arch btw even though I'm a kind of a linux noob (maybe as a more acceptable form of self-harm) and spent the next month locked away to tinker with it.

My setup is pretty much complete now, so I guess I'll just focus on growing a beard this time. Thanks for the great tips!

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Purse of Infinite Holding

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Goblin moment hahaha. It was rocks when I was a kid, these days it's glass bottles. "I can't believe someone would just leave a perfectly good kombucha bottle!" put it in bag with the IPA bottle from yesterday

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Seriously, what is with women's fashion these days? Any other 30-somethings lurking?

Man, taste really is subjective because I have no idea how you can trash today's fashion while being totally ok with the cultural blunder that is early 2000s fashion.

I was looking at red carpet photos from some awards show in 2002, and everyone looked like they dressed themselves by stumbling blindly through the discount rack at Gap Kids. Probably the worst era in fashion history imo.

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How do you pick yourself up after getting your heart broken?

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I'm pretty confident it wasn't due to a secret relationship. He's a digital nomad so he's never in one place for very long, which he'd stated early on as to why he doesn't expect to have a long term relationship with anyone.

So in fairness to him, he did try to manage my expectations. I knew it was a "situationship" and even told myself to not get too invested, just enjoy the moment with him etc and be ready to move on once he left.

I lost sight of that the longer we spent together, and despite what he said at the beginning, I naively thought that things were naturally developing into something more serious and that he'd be willing to do something long distance with me.

But in fairness to me also, he did say things like how he didn't expect that we'd become so close, that I was the first person to make him reconsider moving back to his home country, and he did all kinds of things that imo, most people wouldn't do for someone who's just a casual fling. It's just hard for me to understand that sort of inconsistency, but I guess all I can do is accept that people can be like that and that they'll disappoint you as a result.

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You know how it is

I am pretty sure this meme was made wrong on purpose for algorithm reasons by someone trying to drive more traffic to their page. Nothing like baiting people into correcting you in order to increase engagement.

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Let your weired flag fly!

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I was a dumb kid, went for the same consistency in the grossest way possible, which was putting spoonfuls in my mouth, spitting it back into the bowl and mixing it in. One day an older friend saw that, horrified. Told me to just stir the ice cream for a while instead and I stopped with the saliva ice cream shenanigans from then on.

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Must stay sleepy

My bathroom is literally two feet away from my pallet bed and this is how drunkenly decimated my big toe on the corner of one of the splintery pallets.

Woke up with my foot glued to the blood-soaked blanket, and bloody footprints leading to the bathroom from half-consciously trying to rinse off my foot at another point in the night lol. Straight up looked like I'd murdered someone, I had no idea a toe could bleed that much.