The moment you realize you don’t think you know what you believe anymore is a scary one. You feel like you’ve messed up. So you shut down. You sit in church and stare at the pastor and try to listen to what he’s saying, but it’s really hard. You kind […]
Author: Nina Concepcion
Breaking up with my (fictional) boyfriends
It’s no secret I like to have crushes on people. I fall fast, and I fall hard. Everyone who knows me knows this. But here’s the problem: my crushes tend to be on celebrities and literary characters. And at this point in my life, I’m realizing it’s time to let […]
How to deal with a quarter-life crisis
It’s a real thing. People may scoff at you and say, “You’re so young!” But truly, it is a real thing to have a quarter-life crisis. And I think I’m going through one. Right now. Because the other night I freaked out, grabbed my roommate’s construction scissors and chopped bangs […]
I have anxiety
Everything was fine up until the moment when things turned really shitty. These things were true: I was sitting in a movie theatre. I was with my friends. I was breathing. I stopped breathing. My chest was tingling. My arm was numb, it was crawling up my body, it was […]
