the magical night out | mathu's thoughts
have you ever had one of those nights - the ones you looked forward to the most - be an absolute flop? you have an outfit picked out weeks in advance, you and your friends gush about this being the night that you all magically meet the loves of your lives, and you're out all night on serendipitous adventures. but, in reality, it actually just ends up being mid. your outfit doesn't fit like you wanted it to, the guys end up being sleazy like they usually are, and you're back home by midnight. I'm choosing night outs because it's the first analogy I could think of for this sort of thing. This pull between expectations and unfulfilled promises realized through canon events people subject to themselves repeatedly, like a broken record. This phenomena can also be seen in other ways, like the date you spent weeks agonizing over, but turns out you didn’t have much in common. The job you took because you thought you’d get to build a relationship with someone, but ended up not getting to intera
Mar 1, 2024 by mathurah the magical night out when having no expectations, is better than any expectations at all have you ever had one of those nights - the ones you looked forward to the most - be an absolute flop ? you have an outfit picked out weeks in advance, you and your friends gush about this being the night that you all magically meet the loves of your lives, and you're out all night on serendipitous adventures. but, in reality, it actually just ends up being mid . your outfit doesn't fit like you wanted it to, the guys end up being sleazy like they usually are, and you're back home
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