#firstworldproblems

• Hot meals and beverages with your glasses on. Hello fog!
• Getting your HELP statement and being reminded of how much debt you have waiting for you at the end of your studies.
• In winter, that moment before jumping in the shower and having to take your clothes off.
• In winter, that moment after jumping out of the shower and reaching for the towel.
• In winter, getting out of bed.
• Winter.
• Being overwhelmed by imagined scenarios and factors that you don't know what to pack.
• So much food, don't know where to start.
• Stomach full, but it tastes so good.
• Being hungry, and cursing your past self for not having eaten more.
• People who support the right, yet complain about company lay-offs, unfair redundancies, lowered pay and commission rates - or just workplace instability in general. Isn't that what capitalism is all about?
• Being 200 pages into Fifty Shades and not wanting to finish the book, but hate starting things and not finishing them.
• Winter.

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Never been Kept

I've never been with the kind of guy who bought me things (fast food meals notwithstanding). As nice as I think it would be to be excessively showered with expensive presents - I can't help but equate it with a proportionate level of insanity. Possessiveness, to be exact.

Hypothetically, I think a part of me would feel obligated to stay with him. I'd feel bought out, literally.

I mean, it's all fun and games when the money's not yours. But is he really the kind of guy you'd want to share a bank account with? And what kind of shit values would he impart on your future children?

I once knew a person who complained about her boyfriend only ever buying her 'cheap' jewellery from Angus & Coote. "He never buys me anything from Tiffany & Co.," she puffed.

And here I am cheering when a guy buys me a drink. Which again, is still never.

To equate how much someone feels for you through material things, I think signals some definite insecurity issues.

Or maybe this belief in myself is really a defense mechanism against the fact that I've just never been worth it. Hmm...

This

Guys who act all macho, when at the end of the day all they really want is someone to boss them around and tell them what to do. They'll complain about it because it's the least respectable thing they can do for themselves while being treated like shit. But they'll never leave her. Never.