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You can see I’m sitting at this bar with my friend having a clearly private conversation, but you want to come over and try to hit on us both? Okay.

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Your more (ahem) mature colleague likes to write things, even when it would save time for everyone if they would just type things.

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We were always at each other’s throats, able to magically tear each other apart and push each other’s buttons epically.

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Her miscarriage had been alluded to by Jay-Z in his song “Glory” but this was the first Beyonce had spoken of it.

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You look forward to nights you can go out with friends without them.

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Dismissing your exes as “crazy” if they do anything less than murder your cat is actually sort of rude and disrespectful of their feelings.

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If you were in a relationship? It’d only slow you down.

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I designed my own major in school despite being told that I had to make a choice between a) graduating with a ‘real degree’ and b) being unemployable.

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The best way to deal with rejection is to realize that it’s universal and not a decision by the universe that you are unlovable and undeserving of love.

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Everything — housing, food, drinks, activities — is more expensive. Places are harder to get tables at, harder to get into. Lines are longer. But isn’t that part of the thrill? That this love is never totally requited?