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essays to read on substack this week with your morning coffee 🤍💌

CHICGIRLMOMENT you don't have friends in your adult life because you don't give off the energy you want to attract in addition to setting expectations, we must demand more from ourselves. CHICGIRLMOMENT OCT 26, 2025 AT 3:17 PM Recently, I gathered with a few people for an evening and we talked about the relationships we develop in adulthood. I suspect that most readers have at least once wondered, "Where can I find friends as an adult?" and "How can I attract valuable people to myself?". At school, it was easy, we sat together at the same desk and it grew naturally. Back then, however, we had a slightly different perception of the world, we looked for completely different things in people, and we focused on different things in life.

POSTCARDS BY HASIF You Can Do Anything You Want, You Are Bound by Nothing Living Boldly, Unbound and Unapologetic HASIF 🤍 OCT 31, 2025 AT 2:02 PM In the quiet moments, when you sit alone with your thoughts, you might feel an invisible weight pressing down on your chest, a quiet voice whispering that you are not enough, that you are trapped in a life that's too small for you. You might feel the grip of fear, of doubt, of uncertainty, holding you back from everything you wish to become. These voices, these walls we build around ourselves, they are so convincing, so loud, that we forget we are the ones who built them. But what if,

POSTCARDS BY HASIF The romance of being alone a love story between me and my own company. HASIF 🤍 OCT 19, 2025 AT 9:55 AM There was a time when being alone scared me. Not in the horror-movie kind of way, but in that quiet, existential kind of way, the kind that sits in your chest like an ache you can't quite name. The world made it seem like solitude was a symptom of something wrong. Like if you're alone, you must be unwanted, or broken, or still waiting for someone to arrive and complete you.

HANNAHSPROBLEMA The October theory So I participated in the October theory and survived. HANNAH OCT 18, 2025 AT 7:29 PM People online say that October is when the past comes back. They call it the October Theory, that strange seasonal glitch where your ex texts you, your old friends resurface, or you suddenly crave closure from something you thought you buried in spring. Maybe it's the change in light, the shift from golden evenings to bruised dusk. Maybe it's that the air gets colder and we start looking for warmth in old places. Whatever it is, it happened to me this year.

ANGEL CAKE how to do everything when you have time to do nothing my embargo on describing yourself as "busy" EMILY NORTH SEP 28, 2025 AT 8:09 PM we are closing out a month that answers the question, "how are you?" with "good but soooooooo busy!" i try my hardest to not whine about my schedule because being busy is purely self-inflicted. you create your routine, to complain about its aptitude is to complain about how you choose to live. all that being said, in the past month i myself have *excessively* complained about how overwhelmed and busy i am as if i had no say in the matter which has caused me to think a lot about how the way i choose to spend my time has evolved (and i encourage you to do the same as all of our time is extremely precious and valuable).