Anecdotes

 "Two puffs should give me a good hit, right ?", I asked my friend while slowing my pace down on the sidewalk. "Yeahhhhh!!!", he replied in a tone that stretches out from a low pitch voice to a high pitch voice. He then went on to explain how to take the two puffs. Did you know that there's a good way to smoke weed? I never knew! I always thought that people just puffed in as much as they could and then waited for it to hit. He mentioned that the best way to get the most hit out of a joint is to fill up your lungs about sixty percent by puffing in. Then you hold that smoke for 15-20 seconds and release. And, you do it twice. That is supposed to give you the most hit. And it works even better if the joint you're smoking does not have much tobacco in it. "How do you know what kind of weed it is ?", I inquired before I started puffing. It seems like when you're buying a joint, there's two things you look for. First would be the strain of the w...

I was scrolling through instagram feed. I had just posted one of my song reels. I plan to do like 100 of those song reels this year. In half a mind, I put my phone down, and just start thinking. I start thinking about how bad the last thirteen-fourteen months have been going for me. "I guess, this is called mid-life crisis!", I say to myself, out loud. Let's think together, shall we? There's an ongoing recession, that started early last year, when Facebook -- oh wait, Meta now, they started laying off staff. Why? Obviously they had a reason for it, but then Meta is one of those huge companies that is beyond short term finance corrections, right? Not just that, the recent layoffs from all these tech giants -- Google, Amazon and Microsoft -- are they worth it? Are they saving the company at all from a financial crisis? At least it doesn't look like that in the short term, right? It may be a move to reshuffle the market with new high quality staff, right? Anyway, I d...

 "You know, the week off from work was at like the perfect time for me. I had been delaying a lot of emotional drama in my life, and that was high time for me to go through it, deal with it and just move on." he said, as he and Shubham walked into the Pike Place market. They both have their coffee cups in their hand. He has his all time favorite, the Vanilla Frappuccino, and Shubham was trying something new, a hot Pumpkin Caffe Latte with Whipped Cream. The whipped cream on a hot drink did not make sense to him, but Shubham liked it, so he never said anything. "It's good. Sometimes we need that extra time to go through thoughts in our head." Shubham replied, took a breath and continued asking, "What happened with the girl who rejected you because you were younger ?" "She was just two years older, and I didn't get rejected. It was mutually decided that she wouldn't be comfortable with me because I was younger." he replied. [Death stare...

"Hello." Read. "I'm moving out..." Read. "So, I'd like to invite you to my house for a get-together on Thursday evening around 7.30 PM. If you're not comfortable with it and say NO, I would understand (and not be offended)." Read. "Why is he trying so hard ?", I thought to myself. "Does he not understand that I don't want to talk to him ? I think I've made that pretty clear to him." "Maybe he has invited other people as well. Maybe he's just trying to be a friend. Who knows ?" "You know what? I'll ask others if he's invited them" I sent a private message to two other people on the group, the ones I think he's close to at least. Let's find out if he is still trying to change something here. Suhas responded. Suhas is someone he would hangout the most with, so most likely Suhas has been invited, as long as he's not trying anything here. Suhas said that he hasn't seen any m...

 "Are you still up ? Late now ?". I sent him the text thinking maybe we can still talk for a bit, even if it is midnight. "Yeah, up", he responded almost immediately. I called him and he picked up. After his usual greeting, asked me if I was going for a walk today. I reminded him that it was late, and that I wouldn't go for a walk this late. He said he was waiting for me to go for a walk, and that he was waiting at the entrance of my apartment complex. "WHAT?", I panicked! "You're here ? Why didn't you tell me ? Okay, wait. I am coming." That is unusual. Why is he here ? Why would he be here this late ? Is he really here or is he just making this up ? Wait, what entrance is he at ? I called him and confirmed the entrance. I get very excited around people, and this is kind of a surprise. I did not at all expect that him asking for my apartment complex would turn into this. I saw him sitting on a bench by the coffee shop near our entran...

 "Do you think I should tell her ?" I ask my friend, totally confused. We're sitting in front of the Library, at a place called the Plinth, at The University of Texas at Dallas. He's totally drunk, so I thought telling him the story at this point might be good, so that he doesn't remember anything. I also thought talking to someone about it would ease my anxiety and stress in the matter, but it seems like the stress has increased. "I mean, we've not talked for over a month now. I don't even know if she thinks of me anymore!" I'm in a situation, yet again. This time, I don't know what I did, I really don't. I thought I was very good friends with her, and then something happened. I have no idea what happened. I tried to talk to her about it countless times, but to no avail. She never picked up my calls, she never replied to my messages. I even asked her to call whenever she was free the next time, and it has now been exactly 28 days of ...