#21: Be humble...B*tch, sit down

Happy Friday 🎉 While waiting for John (more on him later), I watched a TikTok in which a lady said Gen Zs can’t read cursive or address envelopes correctly; and if Gen Zs ever took over the world, it’d be easy to get it back. We’d just have to write our plans in cursive and place them in envelopes. I’ve been laughing on and off for 5 days.

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Practice humility and self-awareness

I was at the bottom of my second pineapple and mint juice and the slurps were no longer out of necessity but boredom.

Anything to pass the time as I waited for John.

What an unserious dude!

I checked Instagram, then Twitter, then WhatsApp: Someone on Instagram tried to sell me something I wasn’t buying. Tweeple debated their relationship “icks” for the millionth time, and my WhatsApp chats carried a row of red badges over muted groups like a stream of red lights down Acacia Avenue.

I should really just leave those groups, but I won’t because I’m soft and care too much about what people think.

I lifted my eyes from my phone screen and searched the entrance for a shiny forehead or a bulging belly. They tend to announce John’s arrival before anything else.

Nothing.

I mounted the social media merry-go-round again, but John stumbled in, clattering chairs in his path to me.

Our eyes locked. His lips curved downwards, his eyes widened, and his hands touched squarely as the beginnings of an apology took shape.

By the time he shifted in the seat across from me, we both knew how sorry he was, so we started the meeting.

I hate it when people are late without communicating.

A few weeks went by…

I was running late for a meeting with John (clearly we’re besties) and I was struggling: my phone that’s almost always charged wasn’t charged, every door handle I touched was moist, my shirt armpits were damp and my trouser loops found every door handle in their path.

My elbows rested on our lunch table 30 minutes later than we’d agreed, but John was empathetic. His calmness was confounding, but I mustered the gall to list all the external factors that conspired to make me late.

You know, you have to at least pretend to explain.

“Shit happens,” John said.

Try to practice humility and self-awareness and always seek accountability on your strengths and weaknesses from others.

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1) A light brown color + to leave = a dance

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