New summer lunch entered the rotation: scrambled egg with zucchini & soya chunks with a fresh cucumber, cherry tomatoes & radish salad

The thing is I'm not an idiot and I can just look at the people involved in this "association" and know that their bios are word salad and if you click "more" on their work experience you'll get the actual jobs they do, not the fake ones they list on linkedin and that's how I know someone in my cohort is actually not "🤓 conducting high stakes research for an international organization focusing on European security 😌" he's just unemployed and writes an article per month for a website run by people who actively lie on their linkedin to get occasional invitations to speak on a panel at a conference no one has heard about. a fellow former cohort member is however spiraling over this and I do NOT want to say anything because then I risk being the person who undermines others' accomplishments or whatever the hell the losers are telling themselves

this is a very useless thing to even complain about so I should stop. I have many friends I love and I'm currently on vacation at the beach, I'm gonna go finish unpacking, have a second latte, arrange my skincare products like soldiers in an army

like what am I even supposed to say? "what are your plans today?" finish unpacking and sending 10 job applications because I'm trying to change jobs "unpacking from what?" oops I didn't tell you on purpose I travelled because last time you wanted step-by-step updates of my whole trip "oh what jobs are you applying for?" what is the point in telling you this?????? seriously the options for your reply here are 1. "oh I didn't know you wanted to move to xyz country" 2. "when do you find out if you got it?" or 3. "what about job abc that you applied for two months ago? that was in a nice city that I could have visited you in so I can cross off my list" 🚬

like it is sad, it made me very angry for a while because I was so pissed off it couldn't stay the same and this was someone I used to text about packing my suitcase but I'm now at a point where I haven't even let her known I've travelled to a different country

nothing more heartbreaking yet freeing than realizing you've fully outgrown all the facets of a childhood friendship and that you can just be "old friends" instead of forcing yourself to still be "best friends"

one suitcase unpacked! unfortunately, it was the carry-on 🚬

some people get really into specific world events the same way others get really into a hobby or a piece of media and it's weird af like that's a real court case/murder case/armed conflict/etc that affects real people, why are you adopting it like a pet project? why have you made your entire life about this event that has affected you personally in zero material ways? why is your whole personality now caring about this particular event and why is it because you didn't have a passion or a personality before it?