got.daim
Such creature is said to stalk the night
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people always say “your time will come” but they don’t tell you that by the time it does it won’t even matter anymore, i didn’t glow up in high school, didn’t get noticed, didn’t get compliments, didn’t get anything, girls didn’t even look at me, i was just a face in the background, now i’m 28 and yeah maybe i look a bit better, maybe i get a little attention now, but it feels hollow, it doesn’t hit the same, it’s not genuine, it’s not that pure kind of attention you see kids getting when they’re young and dumb and excited, now it’s just algorithm dating and shallow small talk, now it’s just “you’re cute” but with dead eyes and a phone in hand, and the worst part is knowing they would’ve ignored me back then, i wasn’t good enough when it mattered and now that i “made it” it just feels like a consolation prize, like i got invited to a party after the music stopped and everyone’s leaving, late bloomers don’t win, they just show up to a game that ended years ago, and yeah maybe i’m not ugly now but what’s the point, i missed the era where love actually felt real and spontaneous and dumb and magical, now everything’s a checklist, a strategy, a coping mechanism, i didn’t want to “get hot at 28” i wanted to get passed a note in math class saying “do u like me yes or no”, that stuff’s gone forever and no amount of self improvement brings it back
