HeyJaredLate July
Mostly non-fictional accounts from a deeply unrelatable life.
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After the Bullshit Is Over, the Renaissance Is Coming (opens the original)
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times and time is happening.At least once a day I think to myself, “Were things always this bad? Did it always feel this bad?” And I remind myself it did not. There were times when things felt nothing like this. In fact, my entire life has never felt like this, and that’s good data. It means things can feel different again.We live in a fascist world, or a fascist-adjacent world. A world where people feel exceptional, as though their time on earth was
I Don't Want to Be Understanding Anymore (opens the original)
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I have become exceptionally good at understanding why people can’t be there for me. I consider this a millennial trait. Let me help you help me, so I’m not too much of a bother.I’m very good at being accomodating. I can reschedule. I can figure it out. Don’t worry about me. I’ll Uber. I’ll carry it. I’ll go alone. I’ll understand why you didn’t call. I have spent years becoming the kind of person who requires almost nothing from anyone, which is convenient because people absolutely love providin
There Are Too Many Men In Politics (opens the original)
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I have been political since the Iraq War broke out and my first grade teacher told us she was scared because her husband had been deployed.In that moment, I became aware. At first, my friends and I thought it would be an act of protest to walk around with our middle fingers up, yelling “Saddam Hussein sucks,” but we were asked to stop.That’s my earliest memory of being political. I wasn’t even American, I was a Canadian immigrant in America, for the first time, though not the last.Moving to Cana
What Desperation Looks Like From the Outside (opens the original)
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The times I’ve been told I was brave, I took it as a compliment. Obviously. I’m not going to interrupt someone complimenting me.But I knew the secret behind my bravery: most of the time, it was just absolute desperation to resolve an issue.Bravery and survival are not the same thing, although from across the room they can look remarkably similar.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ro-D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
Why Indecision Is Ruining Your Life (opens the original)
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I am a woman who dies a little in indecision. If I’m indecisive, I know I am morally failing myself, the way you’d fail a multiple choice written driving test for having too many viable options (I failed three times when I was 16). This has felt like a very indecisive time in my life. Even deciding what to have for breakfast has started to feel like a referendum on who I am as a person.Living between two countries.Which means I live in duplicate, with zero good answers to “so where do you actual
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