u/CalisthenicsTitan

I have a younger gen alpha cousin who knows all the internet buzzwords. Today, she asked me if I “Identify as a chad”. Given the fact that I’ve never gotten into something serious with any woman, I responded that I don’t think I’m a chad. She then followed up with: “how come? You’ve got big muscles, you have a chad face, and the jokes you tell make everyone (in the family) laugh”. Needless to say, I was very flattered. I then asked her: “Do you think I’m a chad?” She nodded. I laughed and told her my neatly trimmed mustache is probably the reason I have chad-face. But in my mind, I was thinking: Damn. Even if she doesn’t know the textbook definition of the word, I really am a “chad” in someone’s eyes. In spite of the fact I haven’t made it work with any woman yet, I still have some pretty cool qualities other people can appreciate. Maybe I’ve been seeing the glass as half empty all this time, without realizing I’m actually better off than I thought. Thinking about it gives me hope. In honor of what my cousin said, today I am posting my chicken curry in r/kitchenchads instead of r/kitchencels :)

Today I had an exam. I’ve been studying these last days and thought I prepared well. Turns out it wasn’t enough. I study a music related career, so the exam was composing a song in around an hour. The chords sounded horrible and I spent a lot of time but couldn’t make it work. The test was very easy for everyone else and after taking it, they all seemed very confident. I knew I was gonna fail despite this supposedly being an easy test, so I already wasn’t feeling good. Then, when the professor called me to return my test. He pointed out all the flaws in what I did, emphasizing that “it’s obvious I am not capable of completing this task”. He then said he thought I had cheated because he saw me with the note scale function on during the beginning of the exam (I forgot to turn it off) and was amazed that even cheating (which I didn’t), I couldn’t complete the exam. In his words: “from one adult to another, what you have done is simply embarrassing. I don’t know why you’re even in this university if you’re not going to take something like this seriously. Correcting this test did not disappoint me, it annoyed me.” I told him I took this very seriously and really tried but couldn’t make it. He didn’t care. I practiced hard just for an embarrassing failure in a supposedly easy test. Needless to say I was in tears the entire walk home. I get enough shit from other people when I say I study a music career, but actually being bad at it makes this process barely enjoyable.

It’s all just a matter of perspective. Chicken curry.