When I first got back from Costa Rica at the end of May, I was sad to have left my boyfriend Tim behind. He stayed on to travel the rest of Central and South America for another two months, due home in just three more weeks.
At one point I text his friend, looking for words of consolation, only to get a response that read, “Go skydiving!”
Go skydiving? I thought. That’s not what I wanted to hear. And by the way, what does that even mean? I don’t skydive.
So I asked. He uses that phrase to emphasize the need to live life to the fullest. Instead of pining over something I can’t control, he was saying enjoy the time you have and place you are – live your life, basically.
It was a slap in the face for me. Initially, anyway...

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TAGS: skydiving, traveling, separation

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I ask for decaf whenever I want coffee and what do they give me?. Regular. I always ask for decaf. Except when I don’t, which is extremely rare – and it’s then when I expect and ALWAYS get what I ask – it’s NEVER confused with decaf.
So why are workers deaf to my decaf requests, constantly pouring me pure hell, which is what I go through, whenever I drink caffeine? Do they not get it? Is my request really that unreasonable? Don't they care about me??
“I’ll have a decaf iced coffee, please.”
“Decaf?”
“Yes, decaf.”
About an hour later, I notice the memory of the word left their mind as soon as it left their lips...

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TAGS: coffee, decaf

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