u/SeriousNotice9654

Hi, I'm not sure if this would be the right sub but I am a native Korean living in Korea. I am traveling to China to meet up with a friend, and I am wondering what kind of gifts I could bring!

what were your favorite souveniers from Korea? my friend is a girl in her mid twenties. I am thinking a few facemasks(we could even do them together on our girls' trip), and snacks... but I also have no clue what snacks are 'viral' or unique.

help me out please and thank you🙇🏻‍♀️

did you ever want to kiss me?

do you ever miss me?

I miss you. I wish I could fall asleep in your arms. I want to do a slow dance with you again.

also, are we really just friends?

hi. so... I am a person with an anxious mind in general. it really doesn't help in music school(I study music education) and I don't know how to deal with it.

I always struggled with stage anxiety, which makes my performance BAD(memory blackouts, my tone being awful, stuttering, etc) and that fuels my fear of being on stage in front of juries, and the cycle continues getting worse. For the past 3 years, I have managed to keep it contained in my most important exams(lol) because I care about being good at it, and that makes me anxious and be horrible on stage. When I perform things I didn't really care about, it would be mostly okay. However, recently, it has seeped into every single jury exam I take. Just today, I took an exam on an instrument that I learned for a few months, the piece was easy enough, and yet I still managed to flunk it.

The thing is, I always practice a lot. I would probably be one of the students here that practice the most, in quantity. Leading up to the exams, right up to the very last rehearsal, I am good. I don't make odd mistakes, my teachers tell me I would definitely play well on stage, and I think I will do fine... until I don't. How do I get out of this??)?

I'm not going to text you again when you haven't answered to my old ones. I don't want to, when you clearly don't think about me even once in many days. I guess you are leaving. Or you have already left. There's a certain calm in knowing you've left, because as you already know, I believe everyone leaves me in the end. It's great. This feels familiar, just like home

Is this it? Is this how you leave me? Is this how you finally prove my belief that everyone ends up leaving me is true? You were the one who said you wouldn't want to leave me, and after everything, I had started to believe you.... but here we are. I was right. I should have left before you could, just like my heart screamed at me all the while I was trying to silence it, to "heal". Jokes on me. You said you are afraid you'll be forgotten. Well, seems like you have forgotten me. I hate this. I hate being right. Sorry for being too much, I guess.

you say you don't think anyone is going to love you

you say no one would pick you as their best friend

you say no one is excited and overjoyed to see you, talk to you, or even just get a text from you

you say these things, all the while I am right in front of you. I love you, I love you so much that I choose to be here, I love you too much that I can only show you a fraction of my love for I am scared the entirity of it would drive you away and confirm that my love is unwanted.

Still, I will be here.

I(24f) have a friend I met from work. He and I became pretty close over the course of about 6 months, and I feel we had a very genuine connection. We shared some vulnerable moments as well as very fun moments. I had to move back to the city I am originally from, about two months ago, due to family matters. We kept in contact, texting almost every day and calling every now and then. He has been there for me whenever I had difficult moments as well(becaus of said family matters.) Just to be clear, all interactions I had with him were strictly platonic.

Then, he stopped replying to my texts. In the middle of a conversation. At first I thought he just missed the text or forgot to text back—I am not the world's best texter either and I get it. So I sent another text, about 2 days later. Nothing. I started to get worried if something has happened, so I sent a text asking if everything is okay the next day. Crickets. It's been another 2 days since.

I have had abandonment issues that I've been working on, and he knows this. I really don't think he is cruel enough to just up and leave like this, but my past traumas are really not helping either. What I can't understand is... our interactions leading up to this were fine. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. Friendly texts, joking around, updates on our daily lives, things like that. What is happening here??? Am I really being ghosted like this...?

tdlr: my guy friend has stopped responding to my messages out of the blue, and I cannot make sense of what is happening here.