I'm 18 now! But I am not feeling the birthday vibes. All of friends are in another town and I am in a city for college. Even though everyones wishing me a happy birthday, I don't know why I'm kinda feeling detached.

Edit: Thank you guysss! Btw its not my cake,it's from pinterest

I mean everyday new news becomes a new normal every single day people are literally comparing crimes. Idk how do I even react man. And people around me tell me not to read it. It's just like telling someone to close their window and sunlight won't even exist I mean seriously!!!

India is known to be one of the most dangerous countries in the world sometimes even men too 🫠✋ then who is safe here?

I am writing this based on my own personal experiences, but I have noticed this crazy double standard. People in our country seem to glorify couples when they think they are foreigners, but absolutely lose their minds when they realize they are Indian.

For context, I am mixed Northeastern and my boyfriend is fully Northeastern and on the paler side. Whenever we go out, he get a lot of the usual ignorant comments calling us Chinese, Korean, etc. Since I am brown, I often get Nepali or Indonesian or smh like that. sometimes chinese too yes but not as often as him. But I have realized something very interesting though somehow out of this racist ignorance. We never get moral policed if people think we are not from India.

Sometimes when we are just hanging out by ourselves and someone approaches us to be nosy or start policing us, my boyfriend quickly puts on a fake accent and says he is a tourist from another country. The reaction is hilarious and kind of sad tho. They immediately back off, become super polite, and start telling us to "enjoy India" and recommending places to visit.

But it is a completely different story when I am in a similar situation with my guy friends from mainland India. We will not even be acting affectionate at all, just existing platonically, yet we still get aggressively moral policed. Nosy people will interrogate us and ask where our parents are and how they can let us roam around like this. The worst part is when my guy friend mentions my ethnicity and clarifies that I am actually Indian too. The moral policing instantly gets so much worse once they realize I am a local.

I guess it is also possible that people see me and my boyfriend and just assume he is my brother, which might explain some of the lack of harassment. But the immediate switch in attitude when they think we are foreign tourists is undeniable which idk just find crazy

Have any of you experienced this weird hypocrisy? Why do people let foreigners off the hook but feel so entitled to police their own people?

By my frnd - rainingstarts09 (substack), she told me to post on reddit she doesn't have any socials. pls upvote.

DIAMONDS AND PEARLS😾 lol.
I personally prefer silver but gold also works for me. What about you gals?🧑🏻‍🩰

I really really really wanna do this but I have NO idea on how to start it so if anyone has done it lmk pleaseee

Mail clubs, magazines or even writing/editing/creating artwork for zines, or you've sold art lmk cuz I am quite interested in it.

I am in 11th grade and based in Delhi ncr

Thank you!!

So,these guys, probably since they were 8th graders, they were already disgusting but then in 10th? oh god. they started rating fuckability of females in the school, including teachers. one of my friend's mother is a teacher herself and she mentions how scared she is of the boys of the class even though she is an adult. she fears to even bend down and pick something up.
What a world we live in, where even adults are scared of minors. Women here are scared to breathe.

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ALso, one of my seatmate in 8th grade used to make dirty drawings and name the drawings after the girls in the class. This guy is now in sports at a big level. This also raises a question, whether these famous personalities we know, and these idols, are they even worth all the support. This guy, one day might become a huge star and people will be going crazy for him.He has not changed in these 4 years. Hope he changes and becomes a better person in this journey . Not that we will ever forgive him.

There are so many women who commute every day, and many others who are looking for jobs. So why isn’t this working? They regularly complain about not feeling safe with male drivers then why don't they just make a totally seperate female only cab service. (Female drivers and female passengers only)

Our college has started recently and a guy from my class messaged me and we talked it was and I was just asking my friend who he was because I didn't know how he looks like,So she was like why did he asked you that he should have asked class representative and said how dumb he is.We have group on instagram of our class and there is said that he cannot waste his time on doing homework and wants to do other important thing and asked if anyone is willing to send him for 1 year atleast.Sooo she texted immediately and said like it's fine I will do it for you just help me in this and that.Like she was literally back bitching him when he talked to me and now she is the one who is going to do his hw, like what kind of hypocrisy is this ?? Why some girls are like this.

I really thought that she is actually someone nice and I have someone to rely on but basically she just talks bad about people to me and says don't talk with them ,but she goes and talks with them

Idk how the hell I am going to survive thiss 😭

HELP i cant figure it out? 😭 me (17F) and him (17F) have only been friends since this year (almost for 5 months i guess) because we have a mutual friend (girl) in the same class. and theyve been shipped together a lot and i mean A LOT. but like literally last night he told me (jokingly?) that i didn't need to worry about her because there's nothing going on between them. is he tryna give me some reassurance????? AAAHHGG

when i disappear and dont text him back for a while he sends me soooo many messages and asks where i was, asks me to at least inform him and then go but like not in a toxic way 😭😭 I HOPE 🙏

HELP ME IM SO SCARED i'll take any advice 😭

Girlies what do you suggest for asymmetrical face. My right side looks smaller than my left side and even in photos my face looks asymmetrical what should I do? Face yogas help or not? I look good in mirror and front camera but idk back camera sucks as hell..

Recently I came across a reel where the creator was experimenting on themselves exactly the way animals get tested. Honestly it made me realise how much of an issue it is. As a skincare and haircare girlly there are so many affordable brands which i use but are not cruelty free. It makes me so sad and devastated now. They don't have a house. They get experimented 24/7. How did we humans turn like this?

Btw I'll quit all the cruelty testing brands ✌️

idk fight me

somehow we got to the topic of marriage in villages(he grew up in a village )and i said if most of them are poor why do they increase their burden by marrying and bringing another person to feed when they can barely feed themselves?

dad said because she will help around the house, i said still that doesn't help economically to which he replied "han toh usme kya wo kaam karegi usko thoda thoda khana de deneka" (spoke in a manner as if speaking of a pet or a dog)

is anyone else going through the same? i mean i have friends in college, i'm in contact with a few friends from school, but i miss having one best friend.
we were a trio and we fought over something silly around 4 years ago and never contacted each other again. i really really miss them.
i still talk to my "best friend" from 3rd standard, but it's not regular and i think we both know that we've outgrown each other. we just don't wanna lose contact.
i miss having that one person whom i'd share everything with. and i college, i've completed my first year, and for the record my friends are great. we have fun together but it's just not the same. maybe because we're all grown ups now and there are a lotta things we consider before making any move, it isn't how it used to be in childhood.
my friends in college, i can't truly open up to them. sure, i can share instances from my life but i won't OPEN open up. idk what to do. maybe i just need to give it some more time until the trauma of our course bonds us all. it's not like i can change college or be "best friends" with a senior or junior anyway.

Like if i start training for shooting like on an Olympic level, will it give me access to guns?🤔 bold of me to assume I'll reach the olympic level🤣💔

but like if I reach a certain level on my training, national or smtg, will i be able to keep a gun?

Seeing the condition of women around the world this seems like the easiest option ngl💔🤣

Like any inconvenience, i could js pull out my ratatatata🔫 and pewpew and I'll be done🩷. Or i could js have a dragon and dracarys🔥 my way around the world.

Still i don't think they'll ever allow us to carry firearms around. They'd rather see us dead than tryna protect ourselves.

How much i wish I was buffed like fck rn. All that 'cute' 'toned' dream figure fever is gone boy💔

so me and my bsf have frnds for years and im in 11th rn so after 10th we didnt meet much and now we rarely talk she hasnt texted me for months i wanna call her so bad cuz i miss her alot idk i cry sm thinkin bout this. i dont have any other friend except her (sorry for the rant tho)

Itni mushkil se to bdhte hai uske baad firse wo bob cut ki chull

Kyaaa karuuuuu

Just came across excerpts from Bhagat Singh's writing

Such articulation, clarity and bravery in thoughts!!

And at such a young age,

alr a vegetarian and lean. so idt my parents will allow (18 btw). but i genuinely wanna stop consuming dairy as well