Nobody Warned Us It Would Be This Funny
The Thursdays That Sneak Up and Shape Everything
Life is hilarious.
Not in the way that’s fun. In the way that makes you sit in your car for ten extra minutes just to finish processing what just happened inside the grocery store.
That kind of funny.
The kind where you’re standing in the middle of your own life, fully adult, reasonably intelligent, and you still somehow didn’t see that coming. Whatever that was. The situation. The person. The version of yourself you thought you’d left behind showing back up like she never got the memo.
Hilarious.
I think about this a lot. How we spend so much of our lives braced for the wrong things. We prepare for catastrophe and get blindsided by Tuesday. We rehearse hard conversations that never happen and completely freeze during the ones that do. We plan for the future with a level of detail and confidence that, honestly, the universe finds adorable.
And then life just... does what it does.
And we act shocked every single time.
I’m not saying be a pessimist. I’m not saying expect the worst. I’m saying — loosen the grip a little. Because the things that end up mattering are almost never the things we were tracking. The moment that changed everything? Usually a Thursday. Nothing special about it. No dramatic music. Just a regular day that decided to be significant without asking permission.
That’s the part we don’t take stock of enough.
Not the big milestones. The Thursdays.
The small pivots. The quiet decisions. The version of yourself you became while you were busy trying to become a different one. She deserves some attention too. Some credit. Maybe even some applause.
Life is not going according to plan. For most of us. In most ways. And somehow we’re still here — still building, still laughing, still showing up to things we’re not sure about with confidence we didn’t fully verify.
That’s not failure. That’s the whole thing. That’s it.
So take stock. Not of what went wrong or what’s still missing. Take stock of the fact that you’re in the middle of something alive and unfinished and genuinely unpredictable — and you’re still in it.
That’s worth something.
More than you’re giving it credit for.
— Aūna Millér
Creator of Rooted & Rude and The Daily F🍸ckcabulary