Shower Thoughts

I always struggle getting my thoughts on paper. I am the biggest overthinker you will ever meet. I rethink every statement, word, phrase, punctuation. I just backspaced this 3 times before settling on the one you see now. I wouldn’t say I’m a perfectionist but one thing I would say is I hate making mistakes.   I remember taking exams in high school and thinking about all the answers I could have possibly gotten wrong. Don’t get me started on the group of kids in the corner who want to compare answers. They always nag about how they got this, or they got that, and it would constantly cause my brain to implode on itself. I was already second guessing what I got I didn’t need any more confused thoughts adding on to my paranoid brain. I have tried shedding that trait, but I rather ended up perfecting the art of overthinking when I came to the UofA. A new skill I developed through overthinking is correctly predicting my exam scores by overthinking the questions and resolving them after ...

Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok and any other app I opened this week had me questioning why we have some particular societal standards. How did they become the standards? Who endorsed them? Why do we even follow them? There are several but I tailored this blog towards the standards linked to relationships.   Relationships have evolved so much over the years. Peoples approach and outlook towards them. I recently had a conversation with my friends about this. I found a meme that said, “Relationship goals: to get pass the ‘talking’ stage.” I set out to find the definition of the talking stage, according to one definition on urban dictionary it is “when two people basically flirt and get to know each other before getting into a relationship. However, from the conversation I had with my friends I deduced it was a no-strings-attached-label-free-friends-with-benefits.   Another concept that has taken in a turn when it comes to relationships would be cheating. Why are people normalizing ...