The Exact Opposite of Okay

by Laura Steven

go on about how much they wish they were born in the 1950s. Like, calm down. We still have milkshakes and racism.

self-preservation and resistance to shame is natural. But it’s also not logical. And because it’s not a logical fear, it can’t be countered with a logical response. You have to face emotion with emotion. So channel all your passion and bravery and wildness, and shove them in fear’s face, okay?”

am asking this purely rhetorically. I almost never follow the advice of others due to my insane stubbornness.]

unlike the popular noughties rock band, cute is never what I aim for.

Any blogger in the history of the internet will understand the sheer horror and humiliation associated with this sentence. It is the stuff of nightmares. It is legitimately enough reason to load yourself into a cannon and fire yourself into the ocean, clutching your laptop to your lifeless chest.

Like a kidney stone. Might be painful, but it will pass.”

I just don’t have the mental capacity to process serious situations.

I’m incapable of showing vulnerability and asking for help because I am a TRAGIC ORPHAN WHO USES HUMOR AS A COPING MECHANISM!!!

Same girl. Same.

He lets his eyes drop to the ground. [Again, not literally. That would be deeply uncomfortable for him. Nobody wants gravel in their corneas. I mean, maybe you do. I don’t know your fetishes.]

sadness is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It doesn’t allow you to treat the people around you like human punchbags. Like they exist solely to make you happy

She smacks the table so hard in agreement that the salt shaker nearly headbutts its peppery cousin.