u/Wrong_Dragonfruit792

I’ve been smoking for around 13–14 years, and pretty much daily for the last 7–8. I’m still functional even when I smoke, so it never feels urgent enough to stop. But since I’ve been smoking for this long, there are obviously memory issues, mental fog, lack of motivation, etc.

I keep going on quitting sprees and quit for a month or so ( have been doing this since 2018) but i always end up starting again after a couple of months.

Curious to hear from people who were in a similar position and managed to quit successfully. What genuinely helped?

I miss when Instagram felt like people documenting their lives instead of presenting them.

Early Instagram was:
blurry concert photos, random screenshots, memes, posting 11 pictures from the same night, terrible filters, exaggerated editing, chaotic captions,inside jokes nobody else understood.

Now every post feels optimized. Every photo is curated. Every caption sounds self-aware and performative. Every person feels like a personal brand.

Social media used to feel like “look what happened.”
Now it feels like “look who I am.”

It was a lot more authentic and raw.

Maybe that’s why old Instagram feels so nostalgic.
It was messier, but people felt more real.

Have you felt this too???

I miss when Instagram felt like people documenting their lives instead of presenting them.

Early Instagram was:
blurry concert photos, random screenshots, memes, posting 11 pictures from the same night, terrible filters, exaggerated editing, chaotic captions,inside jokes nobody else understood.

Now every post feels optimized. Every photo is curated. Every caption sounds self-aware and performative. Every person feels like a personal brand.

Social media used to feel like “look what happened.”
Now it feels like “look who I am.”

It was a lot more authentic and raw.

Maybe that’s why old Instagram feels so nostalgic.
It was messier, but people felt more real.

Have you felt this too???

I miss when Instagram felt like people documenting their lives instead of presenting them.

Early Instagram was:
blurry concert photos, random screenshots, memes, posting 11 pictures from the same night, terrible filters, exaggerated editing, chaotic captions,inside jokes nobody else understood.

Now every post feels optimized. Every photo is curated. Every caption sounds self-aware and performative. Every person feels like a personal brand.

Social media used to feel like “look what happened.”
Now it feels like “look who I am.”

It was a lot more authentic and raw.

Maybe that’s why old Instagram feels so nostalgic.
It was messier, but people felt more real.

Have you felt this too???

So my (31F) boyfriend (31M) and i have been together for around 6 months now.
He has 2 cats who usually take things out of the dustbin. A few weeks back the cats were playing with a condom that was outside the wrapper. His cats never go outside, even to the balcony. Now i don’t know if it was a used condom or if it was just taken out of the wrapper. But i do know that the cats wouldn’t be able to take the condom out of its wrapper. Also, my partner and i don’t use condoms. AT ALL. At first i didn’t really think much of it except for the fact that it was really strange that there was an open condom inside the house.

But iv been thinking about it ever since and i feel there is just one obvious reason as to why there was a condom outside the wrapper in the house which iv been refusing to accept.

To give some context as to why iv been having doubts - when we started talking / chilling, i had asked him if he was seeing anyone else. He lied to me and said he wasn’t because apparently that other relationship had run its course and while it hadn’t officially ended, he told me it ended like a month back. He kept lying to me about it till i saw a WhatsApp chat with another friend where it was clear that it ended AFTER we started seeing each other.

I’m really not sure if i should press on it and keep pushing him till he tells me the truth, or should i just let it go?