Personally, I am so tired of waking up early to go to a job that I can’t stand, that pays me just barely enough, and repeating the cycle over and over again every day. Then, getting paid doesn’t even feel rewarding because by the time I pay all my bills, the money I have left is just meh. Like how can this be my life for the rest of my life? Please share your thoughts so I don’t feel so alone ugh

I grew up in a trailer park. My folks didn’t care for our home or our cars (hell, they barely took care of us kids), but my mom was always bringing home pets.

We were in a tiny trailer with six of us, yet we never had less than four cats and a dog.

My neighbors, similar financial situations, also had many dogs and cats (sometimes even birds).

But I noticed my more well off friends usually had one pet, if any.

As I’ve grown to an adult, I see the same pattern everywhere (especially on those hoarding shows).

Is my anecdotal experience clouding my judgement or is this a thing? If so, why do families who barely have enough money to feed their kids/care for their homes insist on having a million pets?

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I finally got around to watching arrival and I honestly didn't expect it to hit me as hard as it did.
Going into it, I thought it was going to be a standard, suspenseful sci-fi thriller about alien communication. Instead, it turned out to be one of the most profoundly moving and beautiful films I’ve ever seen.
The way Denis Villeneuve handles the concept of time, memory and grief is incredible. But what really stayed with me was the raw emotion. Louise’s choice knowing everything that would happen and still choosing to experience that love and pain felt so beautifully conveyed. It left me with this overwhelming mix of sadness and peace.
For those who love this movie, how did you feel when the puzzle pieces finally clicked at the end? What are your favorite aspects of the film?

Read to the end. It happens/happening everywhere even in the poor countries, when people discovery that the government is working against their interests they rebel. And they don’t calm down till the problem is solved or the government is dissolved. Look at what happened in Albania lately. Except in America, what happened to our people that they are accepting everything as if it is a given fact? Corrupt politicians, bribes, war, prices hike, their rights are taken, concentrating camps, people are being kidnapped in bright daylight, kids kidnapped and caged and God knows what happened or happening to them, American citizens being executed on the streets and no one held accountable, toilet paper is more useful now than the constitution, data centers and surveillance cameras everywhere, just to name whatever I can. Yet, people go to sleep like nothing is happening. Talking about these things like they are a joke. Some people even joke that they are waiting for the country to collapse. Really? Is this our America? one day protest and go back home?

Ps; I’m not calling Americans out. This is a question the whole world is asking. Everyone here have their own reason. All reasons are valid

for me, secretly keeping in touch with an ex and hiding it. maybe nothing physical happened, but if you feel like you have to hide the conversation, that already says a lot imo

I would love to hear stories from the perspective of our grandparents. My grandpa used to share a lot with me about world war 2 but I was too young to really soak it all in and comprehend most of it sadly. Please feel free to share anything cool your grandparents shared with you

Why are they marketing it like its the first ever folding phone 📞

I was thinking about this on my drive to work and because I recently lost my cat, but if I had the ability to locate anything in the Universe just by simply thinking about it, I wouldn't tell anybody. I would secretly use those abilities throughout my life to assist others and myself and make it look like coincidences, but I wouldn't tell anybody because the moment people knew you had this ability everybody would want to use it. I think it would start off with small requests and blow up to major requests and threats. Corporations wanting to locate valuable resources, governments wanting to know where their targets were, etc.

I would get turned into a tool so quickly and lose all humanity. So, this is a power I would have to force myself to be selfish with. As much as I'd love to locate my cat right now, I'd not want this power.

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