🌈 breaking ranks.Jun 6

"[...] somewhere between “Let’s catch up soon” and “Sorry, life has been hectic”, adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life. [...] Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence. To remain available without agenda."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship

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The quiet grief of adult friendship

A few weeks ago, a friend called me at 01:40 AM. Not texted. Called. For a brief second, my body prepared itself for bad news. Adulthood has conditioned most of us to believe that late-night...

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OMG - this "civil irony" blog by Pranav Jain for The Times Of India is a [luckily not anymore] hidden GEM!!1

"We shop only in reaction, not in response. [...] Because some tomatoes, [my mother] decided, must still be bought the hard way."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-grocery-list-is-dead-long-live-the-grocery-app/

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The grocery list is dead. Long live the grocery app

A few years ago, when my mother first learned that tomatoes could arrive at our door in under ten minutes, she did not believe me. “Ten minutes? From where?” she asked, as if I had...

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