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The tragic death of social skills and friendships

hi, why don't you listen to this  song  while reading :) high school sucks. on so many levels. one of the suckiest parts of it is having a social life. one of the first requirements of high school is having a social life. love life is for people who've managed to ace the social part. i clearly haven't. this is the part where i tell you about the friends i had in middle school. good lot. of course, back-biting is a MUST in middle school friendships.  high school however seems like a different scenario. especially due to the fact that i was locked inside my house for two (2) years. first day was kind of weird because all these different people i was friends with in middle school, had friends of their own. i mean so did i, but everyone seemed really distant with each other and mostly kept to their own groups. (so did i)(what even are social skills?) most of us had become kind of distant because we barely texted during the pandemic. a lot of the seniors graduated and everythi...

Permanently and inevitably, flawed

This blog contains content that might be triggering to some. It talks about a few grave topics like body image and bodyshaming. Please proceed only if you wish to :) Indians were generally pretty normal, there was not any restriction on anyone wearing anything. Invasion after invasion, our standards of beauty and practices warped into something unhealthy. British left, but this practice or rather now, the restriction of wearing short clothes remained (I mean so did their colonized beauty standards but that's a whole other story). Since then, year after year, the same story has been repeated. Keep in mind that it's not even been a hundred years since freedom, but we've come a long, long way.  I think the only reason anyone wears certain types of clothes is because they feel comfortable in it. That's the way it should be. Wear what you want for yourself, not for others, not for your family or for someone on the street that's oogling you. Clothes are based on comfort, ...