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Downgrade at the Gym

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You were the textbook definition of handsome. Trimmed beard, neat hair, always sporting a 3-piece suit, you were absolutely dashing. On the sidewalk women all shapes and size would turn their head as you passed by, a stunning stranger. And you loved it, you loved provoking such reactions in strangers. You needed to be the center of the attention, the dark handsome fellow everyone wanted to know more. Tall and fit, you oozed masculinity. This is what charmed your many one-night stands that you would enrapture at classy hotel evenings and such, to bring back to your place for a night of passion, only to discard them once morning came. You were living the bachelor lifestyle, and you absolutely loved it. But anyone who pretended that this was all effortless, that your looks came naturally, was a bumbling idiot who did not know how hard it was to maintain such a standard of perfection. You visited you barber at least once a week, more if you had important events, to keep your hair styled an...

Cursed Princess

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It was a lousy vacation. You didn’t really have the right to complain, as your parents were paying for the whole thing, but you couldn’t help but feel out of place. At 19 years old, you had quite outgrown kids movies, and so having to spend the next few days at Disney World with you parents and your 12 year old sister was going to be boring. Especially when said sister insisted on lining up to take pictures with every single princess in the whole park. And since this trip was more for her than for you, obviously, you parents happily obliged, spending hours in line for her, and making you do the same, since somehow even if you were 19 they still didn’t trust you enough to be by yourself in a kid’s theme park. And so you waited in countless lines so she could take pictures with all her favorite princesses, from Aurora to Elsa, Cinderella to Moana. You kept pestering your parents to do something else, go on an actual ride or something, but they replied that you could do that tomorrow, tod...

Prim and Proper

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You had done it, finally! After thinking it out for weeks, and building up the courage, you managed to do it. You dropped out of university. Yes, most people would think of this as being an easy solution, just a quick escape. But it was far from that. It was a hard decision that will have a lot of impact on your future. But it was the right decision. School was not the place for you, your motivation was close to zero, and already you had started failing classes. It would only take some time before you were either kicked out for failing too much, or you would just kill yourself from the stress and pressure. This was the right thing to do, not to prolong the suffering and waste more time, and move on with your life, and do something within your reach. The biggest sign that this was a good choice was the relief you felt after you met up with the school counselor and informed him of your choice, to not pursue your studies and not even complete the semester. But there was one final thing th...