60 frustrations
This list was a starting point for me to think of frustration and what it means to me and how I interact with it and what can I do about it. I realised that frankly I can't do shit. And it felt like my thoughts were bouncing off the walls just to hit me back harder.
- Zoom audio doesn’t load for a while and everyone starts checking their audio and it’s all awkward.
- My computer is slower because of the Sims4 I loaded, but I don’t have the guts to delete it.
- The anime movie I was waiting for is postponed because of corona.
- When a friend starts talking passionately and freezes til you reload.
- WhatsApp franticly notifying me about everything as soon as I start talking with someone.
- Sometimes my Mac randomly stops switching alphabets on my keyboard.
- Flatmates daily drunkenly laughing at stupid game sounds on the terrace.
- Extremely loud noise outside every Tuesday morning at 6am. (update: it was a garbage truck)
- All the men who write gross sexual things to me online and make me feel unsafe on my own platforms.
- Only getting responses to share my room from the men around 33 who are “looking for a woman”.
- The man who I talked once with about the room demanding an answer to “we might be friend if you wish”. And then getting angry I ignored it.
- Men.
- Arguments with my best friend even though we both understand in the process that its just our faulty panicked brains clutching.
- Insomnia.
- Inability to concentrate on reading properly.
- I have less human rights just because I was born outside of the imaginary line.
- Oranges are expensive.
- It is the forth month of me waiting to get into therapy and on Friday they asked if I have the right insurance. For the third time. (update: I will only get it in January)
- Europeans suggesting solutions that only apply to them and never apply to me.
- How therapy offers English sessions, but the lady on the phone is Dutch and speaks zero English. So I need to come there. So they tell me I need to call.
- Complete lack of surprise from Russian public when my government commits monstrous acts of inhumanity.
- Other older classmates and friends having parents and homes to rely on and me not having either.
- My only shoes broke, but all the shops are closed.
- The fact that my mom was abusive, but she is still the only parent I have so I still sick emotional support from her.
- Rich celebrities getting things for free because they are famous.
- Billionaires not paying taxes.
- Governments that are ok with it.
- Capitalism.
- Americans not choosing Sanders even though the motherfuckers can actually vote (that one gets to me for some reason).
- My derealizations-depersanalizations getting wild because of the quarantine and no sense of time.
- If I cry I get headaches.
- If I don’t cry I also get headaches.
- People ditching me instead of saying “I am not going to take the room, thanks”.
- All of my best friends in Russia are poor so we can’t meet.
- Everyone renders me as straight, though I am bi and mostly have queer friends.
- When discounts are wrongly placed in AH and no one knows what is actually costing 1,99euros.
- Restrictions that Immigrations services put on my working conditions.
- Tuition fees are still 7500 even though all the workshops and services are not in use and education is different.
- Landlords and real estate agencies not wanting to let me have a viewing, because I'm an international student.
- Landlords and real estate agencies.
- Computer freezing every time I want to go fancy in AfterEffects.
- Computer freezing every time I turn on Unity.
- Community got worse after the 4th season.
- I am not in the TV-show and I will never have super powers or a time-machine.
- I can’t distract myself from my problems anymore.
- The wish to eat everything in the house because you are scared.
- The fact that I base my self worth on feeling that I am the top of the class, but this year neither being good at anything nor thinking that it is an actually valid measurement hence always feeling that I suck.
- Loud noises and loud people.
- Realisation that I immigrated because I needed to, not because I wanted to.
- Inability to understand half the information around me.
- Inability to focus on learning Dutch.
- The need to learn the third languages to be able to wash dishes.
- Wages being smaller the younger you are because of the assumption that you have family as a backup.
- Rein will take the curtains and I don’t know where to buy curtains.
- My plants are dying.
- I don’t have enough plates to use the dishwasher.
- The fact that we know about mortality.
- Period crumps.
- Constant feeling that everything is actually great snd that I don’t appreciate my reality enough.
- Capricorns.