Yep. That's exactly what happens.
Every night, you build an alarm system of breathtaking ambition. Every morning, you dismantle it in under four minutes. The person who set those alarms — the optimistic, well-rested version of you who believed in 5:30 AM workouts — is a stranger. A beautiful, delusional stranger.
Mar 13, 2026
Every single time, someone asks where you want to eat, and every single time, the two of you enter a collective decision-making black hole that consumes nearly an hour of your life before you end up ordering the same burrito bowl you always get. The destination was never in question. Only the journey was.
Mar 13, 2026
You're nodding. You're making eye contact. You are completely, utterly gone. At some point in the last ten minutes, your brain quietly packed a bag and left the building — and now you're standing there performing 'engaged human' with the dedication of a method actor who has never once been to acting school.
Mar 13, 2026