Girl Interr--

X: Are you okay? Why aren't you talking?
Me: Well, funny thing is that --
X: Oh my god, behind you! What a cute dog! My best friend from primary school had this dog that...
[Cue Noeline: leave stage]

There are some girls whose voices have the power to shut everyone else the fuck up. Even when what they have to say is completely banal. It's like Miss Popular came and sat down at the loser table and everyone is so amazed she ever gave them the time of day that no one notices that a girl like me has been interrupted, spoken over, or has stopped and started her sentence a few awkward times too many. Everyone will walk away knowing nothing about my life or my opinions - but we'll all be well informed about said girl's boredom in class, how her sister-in-law found ten bucks yesterday and the dress she really really wants to get online.

This is why I don't do well in conversations that involve, well, more than one other person. I think it's also why I write. No one can stop me.

What separates nice guys and the guys who are too nice is this

What separates nice guys and the guys who are too nice is this. Guys who are too nice are usually pansies. The pushovers of the group. Who can't stand up for them selves. They will most likely be mummy's boys. When they do manage to pull a girlfriend they usually make a fine specimen of one that is 'whipped.' All jokes aside, what this indicates to us women is that if he can't stand up for himself, how could he possibly stand up for his wife? What this means is, if he can't stand up for himself, he probably won't stand up for his children either. Now that freaks us the shit out. Grow some balls. We don't like being the ones with more testosterone in the relationship. We're not asking that you be sucker-punching everyone, just that you be assertive in situations where it's due.

Affordable

There are some people I could never afford to be friends with. They're the kind of girls who flaunt their most recent Louis Vuitton and Chanel purchases. Who buy each other jewelry from Tiffany & Co. Whose problems involve not knowing which colour Prada bag to buy. Friendship groups like these intimidate me. They have photos of them selves in swanky restaurants with equally swanky views. Do they finish their food, I wonder? Do they gossip and talk about clothes and make-up as much as poor people like me think they do? I once had a friend who pissed everyone off by continually asking them to take a photo of her, and another one, and one more. Sometimes she would do the same thing in front of different stupid backgrounds. Like a plant. Sometimes it would be different poses and angles in front of the one stupid background. Well, these girls have so many photos of them selves I wonder if they have a token man-friend always taking the snaps. And does he ever get pissed off like we did? Or do they always just use a camera stand? Although they wouldn't actually use it, would they? Or maybe they do. I also had a friend who, when taking a group shot always shoved her way into the middle. Without fail. In which process certain people ALWAYS end up on the side, sometimes cut out of said picture by said girl who made it her profile picture. But the funniest is when you get two girls who have the same 'side,' as in the side where they insist on standing because their face looks better that way. And then they end up fighting over who gets to pose on their rightful side, saying the other person actually looks fine from the other. And they're pushing each other playfully and they're laughing but all they really want to do is rip each other's hair out.

Ha.

I will be okay because I can write

“I will be okay because I can write. I will be okay because my emotions can be poured into words that no one will care to read. I will be okay because I have been told that I have a very creative mind, and that is what I will use to give me strength. I will be okay because with my own mind I can create fantasy worlds to escape to with no intention of returning. I will be okay because I can voice my thoughts like no one else can, and my thoughts are like no one else’s, and yet they are the same as everyone else’s at the same time. I will be okay because I finally have a reason to be okay. I will be okay because one day my words might help someone else be okay. I will be okay because there are people worth being okay for, there are experiences worth living through and there are people worth meeting. I will be okay because I can write.”

Quote found here