"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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According to Miriam Webster.



1. AIRBALL (V.)
To completely miss the basket, rim, and backboard with a shot: to shoot an air ball.

2. BINGE-WATCH (V.)
To watch many or all episodes of (a TV series) in rapid succession.

3. BOKEH (N.)
The blurred quality or effect seen in the out-of-focus portion of a photograph taken with a narrow depth of field.

4. CONLANG (N.)
An invented language.

5. ELDERFLOWER (N.)
The flower of an elderberry (such as Sambucus nigra) used especially in making wines, liqueurs, and teas.

6. FACE-PALM (V.)
To cover one's face with the hand as an expression of embarrassment.

7. FAST FASHION (N.)
An approach to the design, creation, and marketing of clothing fashions that emphasizes making fashion trends quickly and cheaply available to consumers.

8. FIRST WORLD PROBLEM (N.)
A usually minor or trivial problem or annoyance experienced by people in relatively affluent or privileged circumstances especially as contrasted with problems of greater social significance facing people in poor and underdeveloped parts of the world.

9. FOOD INSECURE (ADJ.)
Unable to consistently access or afford adequate food.

10. GHOST (V.)
To abruptly cut off all contact with (someone, such as a former romantic partner) by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls, instant messages, etc.

11. GINGER (N.)
A person with red hair.

12. HUMBLEBRAG (V.)
To make a seemingly modest, self-critical, or casual statement or reference that is meant to draw attention to one's admirable or impressive qualities or achievements.

13. LISTICLE (N.)
An article consisting of a series of items presented as a list.

14. MICROAGGRESSION (N.)
A comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).

15. MICROBIOME (N.)
A community of microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses) that inhabit a particular environment and especially the collection of microorganisms living in or on the human body.

16. MUMBLECORE (N.)
A genre of narrative film focusing primarily on the intimate lives of young characters and featuring scenes of ample dialogue and minimal action.

17. NSFW (ABBR.)
Not safe for work; not suitable for work—used to warn someone that a website, email attachment, etc., is not suitable for viewing at most places of employment.

18. PAREIDOLIA (N.)
The tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.

19. PHOTOBOMB (V.)
To move into the frame of a photograph as it is being taken as a joke or prank.

20. PING (N.)
A signal sent from one computer to another across a network for usually diagnostic purposes (as to determine network speed or the status of the target computer).

21. PROSOPAGNOSIA (N.)
An inability to recognize faces.

22. SAFE SPACE (N.)
A place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.

23. SEUSSIAN (ADJ.)
Of, relating to, or suggestive of the works of Dr. Seuss.

24. SIDE-EYE (N.)
A sidelong glance or gaze especially when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval, or veiled curiosity.

25. TRAIN WRECK (N.)
An utter disaster or mess: a disastrous calamity or source of trouble.

26. TRUTHER (N.)
One who believes that the truth about an important subject or event is being concealed from the public by a powerful conspiracy.

27. WAYBACK (N.)
The area in the back of a van, station wagon, or SUV.

28. WEAK SAUCE (N.)
Something inferior, ineffective, or unimpressive: something weak.

29. WOO-WOO (ADJ.)
Dubiously or outlandishly mystical, supernatural, or unscientific.

30. YOWZA (INTERJ.)
Used to express surprise or amazement.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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#11 made me laugh

#22 made me #6
 
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