I still keep your contact saved under a wilting flower emoji, and I look at it whenever I miss you.

I knew you were lying about where you were that night, but I stayed silent because I was afraid of losing you.

I lied about my proficiency in a software tool on my resume and then spent my entire weekend speed-running a masterclass on it.

I laugh at jokes I don't understand during group hangouts just so people won't look at me awkwardly.

I feel completely emotionally numb most days, but a random commercial will make me weep uncontrollably.

I listed fake freelance client work on my resume to cover up a gap year where I just played video games.

I told my nephew that dogs are actually cats in disguise, and now he looks at every dog with intense suspicion.

My brother thinks he earned his car scholarship. Our grandfather secretly funded the entire endowment anonymously.

I act like I don't care about milestones, but deep down it hurts seeing everyone around me get married and buy homes.

I overheard my boss telling the director that I don’t have "leadership quality." I just got an offer from our main competitor for double my current salary.

If I had said the words that changed everything, we would never have ended up like this right now.

I found a hidden camera inside an alarm clock in our vacation rental. Instead of calling the police right away, I unplugged it and took the SD card with me.

I memorized your daily schedule so I can avoid running into you because my heart beats too fast when you look at me.

I let my teammate take the blame for an expired certificate outage because I was too cowardly to admit I missed the alert.

I told my friend I didn't like their favorite movie just to be contrarian, and now I have to pretend I've never seen it for three years.