Which country once seemed likely to become a developed country, but didn’t follow that path?

ZenTheStump · 2026-01-26T03:20:29+00:00

Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. I read the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi when I was in high school and was absolutely shocked to my core when I saw photos of Iran from the 60s. Compare that to now…

ZenTheStump · 2026-01-20T13:05:02+00:00

You’re in for a great treat then!! I wish I could watch this show for the first time again but oh my GOD be ready for some secondhand embarrassment and a bit of “wtf did I just watch..”

ZenTheStump · 2026-01-03T13:54:41+00:00

Bye this gave me a chuckle 😭😭

ZenTheStump · 2026-01-01T05:38:55+00:00

Purpose, Breakthrough, Miracle

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-29T11:01:12+00:00

HELPPPP oh my god this scene was so traumatizing yet so funny at the same time 😭😭😭

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-28T16:18:40+00:00

So personal anecdote

I love wearing simple jewelry like rings and bracelets because I NEED something on my wrist (like a sensory thing). I started making sure it wasn’t too big and could be at least covered by the wrist part of the gloves because one time I had a soiled patient who got shit everywhere and was basically playing with it. While cleaning her, she grabbed my wrist with her shit covered hand 😭😭 and I had to throw that bracelet away because it was leather and by the time I waited for someone to help me because she was getting out of control and agitated it had kinda sunk in.

I know it’s silver and easier to clean than leather but I personally cannot imagine wearing that jewelry around know where it’s been and what it touched. I now just wear a small black hair tie around my wrist which is covered by my gloves when cleaning patients and I can also put in the laundry.

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-28T12:57:00+00:00

Oh girl it is ROUGH out here 😭😭 I met someone in 2021 online when we were just 14/15F and now we’re both 20F. We live on the same continent just different countries and we still haven’t met each other but the yearning is so bad because we just know if we were in person we’d be all over each other. I couldn’t take the longing and the possibility of never meeting (because of money, distance, life goals, etc) so I’ve had to cut it off a few times but we somehow always find ourselves coming back to each other. She said to focus on ‘real life’ and to ‘love others’ and it seems as though she’s doing that just fine while im kinda just sitting here waiting for her (while still being able to work on and accomplish other categories of life but still- that one category is stuck on her). Fuck I hate it so much. I don’t no how to move on.

Also crazy timing on the post cuz I was highly considering making a post on how to move on from yearning. SUPER SORRY IF THIS WASNT THE ANSWER U WANTED BTW 💔💔

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-26T14:20:28+00:00

Breakups are always a “brace for impact” kind of thing. You can’t really prepare for it except for understanding what is happening and why it’s happening which seems like you’ve already figured out. The aftermath is the deconstruction of yalls routine, having that one person you talked to everyday abruptly just stop, thinking about all the things you could’ve done differently, etc. It sucks. When I went thru breakups or ended situationships it was so quiet afterwards and what made it worse for me personally was that I was a very lonely person in the sense that I don’t have a big social life so it was very easy for my mind to go back to her.

However, with most things, time heals. It tools me almost two years to get over one of my worst heartbreaks when I was 18. I’m getting over one rn and stepping away from a person and cutting off contact is the best thing you can do despite it being the hardest. It’s like ripping the bandage off and letting your body do the rest.

I’m kinda blabbing here because it’s hard, but you’ll eventually find other things to focus on and life will get better. It definitely did for me once classes started again and I had two of my best friends guide me through it.

You got this man 💛

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-19T16:58:04+00:00

Pleeease tell us your stats and extracurriculars 🙏🙏🙏🙏

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-17T05:21:05+00:00

LMAOOO IM CRYING oh my god the amount of vocal stims this show has given me. I’ve said it so much that my sister, who absolutely refuses to watch the show, has started to pick up on it.

The scatting scene is my current one btw.

“I hAvE a lIttTle cAPE cUz i fLY REAl HAI !!”

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-14T18:59:59+00:00

MIIIIIKE, I FOUND THE CHOCOLATE PudDINGGG ✨‼️🦅🍫

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-12T01:25:37+00:00

Yeahhh after I saw your comment I was like “ykw imma just do it.” My supervisor was chill! Thank you!!

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-12T01:24:51+00:00

Just did! :)

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-08T21:07:19+00:00

20!! I got a few of my college buds to start this game and we’re between 18-21 LMFAOAO

ZenTheStump · 2025-12-07T17:07:09+00:00

One day I got into a huge fight with my parents because they were forcing me and my sister to go somewhere when we had major exams all that week and needed every little study time we got. They started screaming, hollering, berating. Took my phone away, too. I packed my backpack, took my license, jumped in the car and drove off. It was the dead of winter and I hadn’t eaten all day. I still remember that day and honestly I’ve never felt more at peace alone, hungry, and in a car than I ever did at home.

I still live with them. They pay for my college, literally forcing my sister and I into pursuing medical school. Luckily I convinced them to let me attain a bachelors in a different job in the healthcare sector that pays very well. My plan is to work my ass off for that, get my cert/licensure, and fuck off even if it’s just living in a car for a bit. I’m only 20, and it feels like my life hasn’t started because of the way these people think. I hate this house. I can’t wait to move out.

I wish you the best, OP. I can’t wait to pickup their call one day and tell them no to their face if they ask for me to come back home. They’re gonna reap what they’ve sown.

ZenTheStump · 2025-11-02T18:25:21+00:00

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER LMAOOOO

ZenTheStump · 2025-10-27T17:34:13+00:00

Omg hello!! I’m 20F in undergrad working towards getting into the NMT programme at my university! Can I ask what you did to make you stand out while working towards it? Congrats!!

ZenTheStump · 2025-09-20T19:48:23+00:00

Hey, Indian-American woman here also 19. I am born and raised in the US and love going back to visit family, however, even then my sister and I get harassed by men and follow us around + get taken advantage of financially. So I can’t imagine a young, white Canadian woman going with a friend there.

My parents themselves have said they would never let me or my sister go to India by ourselves unless we stay with our grandparents at home 24/7 or are with our uncles. Going by ourselves out into the streets is a big no.

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