Read on Twitter
1 like = 1 confession
I got confused by the primaries so I didn’t vote but I told everyone I voted for Bernie
I never got more than a quarter of the way through Middlemarch
Sometimes I steal olive oil from my housemates without asking
I have stopped hanging out with people because they chewed with their mouths open
When people don’t like my tweets enough I get worried they muted me and tweet things I know they will like to test whether they’ll engage with me
I hate hiking because I hate the woods
I’ve been out of toothpaste for two weeks
I lie to my doctor about how much I exercise
I moved into my apartment September first and have washed my sheets one time since then
I judge people who sing and whistle in public spaces or around the house
The inspection sticker on my car is over a year expired and both side mirrors are held on with electrical tape
I weep at the scene in Wonder Woman (2017) where she crosses No Man’s Land
I journal during sermons to look like I’m taking notes and paying close attention
I don’t like infants until they’re at least 6 months old
One time a guy told me thought Walter White was likable and I never spoke to him again even though I saw him regularly
16/ I think I’m smarter than most people
17/ idk what it means to have an internal experience of feeling like a woman
18/ I find kids making noise in church annoying and distracting and I can’t find a way to see it as heartwarming
19/ I keep letters from my health insurance company unopened for a few months and then throw them away
20/ I think me not liking animals is a character flaw and I think me doubling down on it is probably sinful
21/ When people are late to hang out with me and I have to wait for them in a public place I find it so humiliating that when they do show up sometimes I burst into tears OR get so angry I barely talk to them for several minutes
22/ I would pray in tongues more if I wasn’t secretly worried it was cringe
23/ I’m afraid I get tired of things and people and move on for the sake of novelty so I will never have meaningful lifelong commitments, and that fear keeps me stuck in some things I should walk away from
24/ I resent correction
25/ When I was five I got a Christmas present I wasn’t excited about and cried and in retrospect it was a really thoughtful gift and I still feel bad about it
26/ I have always shaded the truth a lot to myself and others and outright lie to smooth things over pretty regularly
27/ I’m very impressionable and have historically formed opinions based on what the coolest person in the room thought
28/ I get far too much pleasure out of people being impressed or intimidated by me
29/ I feel like a bad feminist because I like my appearance better when I weigh less
30/ I’m afraid I lack the discipline to live up to my natural giftedness
31/ I never finished Mad Men
32/ I deeply struggle with envy and it seriously impedes my ability to love
33/ I get annoyed by other people very easily, and I think that this is a low grade version of the vice of wrath that proceeds from my fear that I can’t control the world around me
34/ I avoid doing household chores as much as possible even when I’ve agreed to a rotation with the people I live with
35/ I’m afraid of discovering that my experiences with God with really just hypomania and depression all along, and sometimes trying to avoid running into that makes me double down on mental illness.
36/ I’ve ghosted fairly close friends and directly broken up with best friends in the past, and I hate thinking about the ways that people out there have to process my treatment of them
37/ I once was in a friend’s wedding and developed a crush on her sister and told the friend that her sister was really pretty on my friend’s wedding day even though I knew she was insecure about wondering if her sister was prettier than her
38/ I’m obsessed with the number 3 and dividing things by 3 to the point that it seems like it’s maybe some kind of obsessive/compulsive trait, and I never tell anyone that I’m constantly manipulating every number I see around me to make it neatly divisible.
(ex: 4:22, not divisible, add 1, 423/3 = 141/3 = 47 add 1, 48/3 = 16, working backwards should be able to add ten to the original number to make it 16x27 which checks out because that’s 432)
39/ Sometimes I go out of my way to make the drive longer even though I know about climate change because I want to listen to music and think
40/ My characteristic sin is disengagement, which is a form of cowardice
41/ I was bad at therapy in ways that made me wonder if I’m truly irreparably broken
42/ Part of me enjoys the attention and intense support I get when I’m in crisis, and sometimes I miss the psych ward
43/ When I read about Simone Weil’s life in the intro of a collection of her essays a little over a year ago I cried because I realized I don’t have the makings of a saint
44/ There’s an underlying childishness to me even now that I think is concerning
45/ When my PTSD was bad and I couldn’t work money was such a huge source of stress I couldn’t deal with it, and I still carry residual anxiety that makes me bad with money in ways that affect other people
46/ The attention span required for movies feels like a stretch to me and that makes me worried my brain is rotting.
47/ The longer I spend working as a nanny the more I never want to have children
48/ There’s a certain pleasure in sadness for me that has led to a lot of self-destructive behavior
49/ I still eat at Chick fil A
50/ I don’t care about most theological discussions because I barely understand them
51/ I always fail at Lent, which is why I love it
52/ I wouldn’t work at all at anything if I wasn’t forced to
53/ I kind of do want more followers now
54/ I hardly ever make any real sacrifices for others
55/ I have never had a time in my life when I did not feel incredibly lonely
