You can just pretend to have your shit together.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@donni

weirdly enough, confidence is the one odd thing you can fake until you genuinely have it

[kathimmel@mstdn.social]

@donni i don't even bother to pretend anymore.

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@donni isn't that what facebook is all about?

[zvinj@tooot.im]

@donni
Especially true when you're president

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@donni

Image is everything!

[silly_paprika@mastodon.social]

@donni fake it till you make it?
is difficult to make yourself believe that tho

[kmmich@mas.to]

@draNgNon @donni Alas, it is also what a lot of firefighting departments are built on... And I suspect lots of other vital sectors. Have you read Christopher Clarke's Sleepwalkers? Or listened to the Grenfell podcast...?)

[essjax@m.essjax.com]

@donni can confirm

[philleu@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @donni

Or die trying

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@philleu @donni

confidence in small talk for example

confidence in free solo climbing, yeah not so much

[bright_helpings@mspsocial.net]

@donni I don't think anyone who does appear to have their shot together is doing much other than pretending.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@donni
"Vere are your shit papers?!"

[mouldycat@mastodon.art]

@donni while I understand the intention behind this sentiment, I‘d rather be myself and have my shit all over the place than try to fit into this mold of capitalist expectation to carry all my shit by myself.. (wow that sounded way more disgusting than I thought it would)

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@donni this is something you have to learn quickly if you want to survive an 8 hour work day

[jlkeeton@mastodon.sdf.org]

@donni thanks

[tatko@mastodon.social]

@donni

A few screws knocked loose. But still manged to bluff my way through.

[howtophil@oldbytes.space]

@donni This pairs nicely with my little bit:

"But what if my family reads it?" asks the writer.
"Don't worry. They won't."

[justinmac84@mastodon.social]

@donni There is more truth in this than there should be.

[quadrivial@beige.party]

@donni the hardest lesson to learn about what adulthood is truly like

[herrlorenz@chaos.social]

@donni Masking, made sound effortless 🥲

Why do I have to think of Gattaca, again...