Suwen Tan

You wanted a new pair of pants. You wanted to be free.    

I don’t even like nacho cheese Doritos but with hummus? It was magic.  

It’s okay. I know you just dropped your phone but I promise it will be alright. 

Step 4: Take ingredients out on the last feasible day of respectable use. Question your value as a human being. 

Give me a noodle any day.

It seems so harmless, so innocent, doesn’t it? It’s grocery shopping, a chore, a suburban drudgery. But for me it’s become both a source of too much joy and the bane of my existence. Alcoholics can swear off alcohol. They can stop going to places that serve it. But how can I stop grocery shopping?

It seems unjust that people should think I’m a bitch based on something completely out of my control. Actions speak louder than words and they should speak louder than faces, too.

I was still all, “Personal challenge. Must not shower. Build character. BUILD CHARACTER!” even as I watched everyone else traipse gleefully off to their steamy water hugs.