Everything To Everyone

Just learned my mortal enemy from high school won $70k on Jeopardy and I’m gonna be sick to my stomach

I gotta get out there and do something with my life

i am julia ribeiro, founder of emoism

Pulled the trigger and booked the hotel room. Had already requested the days off way in advance but this makes it feel a lot more final. I didn't get this far last year so it feels like such a relief to get here now

Cancelled the reservation. Weather’s too bad up there. Feels like a punishment if I’m being honest. Gonna think about this in the future

Hot take but praise is a good tool for encouraging healthy behavior. Positive reinforcement is good. Relying exclusively on punishment to change people's behavior is both cruel and ineffective. If someone does better than they did yesterday, let them know you appreciate it, let them know that they're improving!

Also, if you don’t praise people at least a little, you’re literally expecting them to mind-read whether what they did this time was the “correct” thing, and somehow magically know they got it right this time, as opposed to all the other times they said something and you stayed silent.

lying in front of the street cleaner

did the street cleaner believe you?

it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people

learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally

it feels fake but your friends miss you sometimes

the reason you've been hanging out with your closest friends fairly regularly for the past 12+ years is because you have fun together

people who don't like you that much will not stay in your life for over a decade asking to hang out and inviting you to things and texting you