Johanna de Silentio

When Someone Tells You They Aren’t Attracted To You

However, being young and immature it wasn’t good enough for me to have a mutually not very fun experience. I texted him after the date and asked what had happened, since he’d been pretty aggressive prior to that. He responded that, on second thought, he didn’t find me that attractive.

How To Deal With Not Being An Extrovert

I’ve been interviewing for jobs recently and what I kept reading about was how interviews are to determine if someone is likeable, not if they are qualified.

Brains Have More Fun

We wondered whether anyone else in the world emailed back and forth all day about Kierkegaard and Kim Kardashian.

… About My Eating Disorder

I don’t know why this worked. It’s shocking to me that within a month I just…. have all this new brain space where my crazy used to live.

What’s Wrong With Drama?

You will never get anything worthwhile by valuing “easy” over “potential to make me happy.” Bro is a weightlifter, he should understand this. You’d never build muscle if you didn’t put resistance on the weights.

Meeting Someone You Only Know From The Internet

I wrote a bunch of questions in my notebook, I say I’ll pull it out when the conversation dulls but it never does. We drive to his neighborhood on the other side of the city but don’t go to his house.