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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • First, stop referring to him as a ‘character’. Doing that makes you look insecure with your own situation. Next, understand his real question behind his words which is something more along the lines of “shouldn’t a career be more rewarding than just showing up?” Expecting that to be achievable for everyone in this day and age may be naive, but his idealism and wish for happiness is not a bad thing. He’s likely coming from a place of care rather than purposefully trying to antagonise you. I suspect you are mostly angry at his testing of your carefully built mental fortress, the one that insulates you from dwelling on the tedium and uninspired drudgery your future in that position offers.












  • If the photo’s content is such viewer would be inclined to rotate the photo back to level in their mind, then there is no justifiable reason to have an off-level horizon. Camera tilts in and of themselves don’t somehow make an unexceptional photo “artsy”. In this example, there is no content in the photo that makes tilting it “add” anything to the composition. It’s especially bad when the horizon is the sea. This photo is not enhanced in any way by tilting the horizon. It makes it neither artistic nor cool.

    Instead, the content of the photo should complement the rotation, such as this