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Why Not Me?
by Mindy Kaling
This is probably irrelevant but if Mindy and I knew each other, I'm 99.9% positive we'd be the best of friends.
I read her first book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me two years ago or something after I finished my first The Office marathon and it was hilarious. I love Mindy. I gotta tell you, I am actually the introverted less awesome version of Mindy but once we're friends, I will not stop talking ever. Ever since The Office I've been kinda like I love Mindy Kaling She's Great and I Look Up To Her! and just recently I marathon The Mindy Project. It was awesome, you guys. I haven't finished it just yet I'm still on season 3 ep 11 or something (and weirdly got a spoiler from this book, so, thanks a lot for that). All of the essays in this book are really fun to read in my opinion and I think she has matured a bit compared to her first book, plus I could always relate to Mindy's stories (except stuff like when she met Obama. I couldn't relate to that obviously but that shit is dope as hell).
This book also taught me that you can't just cruise through life. You need to work your ass off to get what you want and at some point you will question yourself and people will question you but as long as you believe and yourself and be the best you can be then you're probably going to be fine.
Mom continued, “I live real life every day. Why do I need to see it when I come home?” How could I argue with that?
When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior.
It’s weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. I was surprised that my overwhelming feeling was not sadness; it was terror.
I had reached the level of self-obsessed insanity at which point no reasonable person would ever feel sorry for me.
Things Mindy Lahiri and I Would Both Do: Pretend not to have seen Star Wars to enrage Star Wars fans
And that is why B.J. and I are soul mates, and the reason is … because in terms of the soul, we like to … That doesn’t make any sense. We’re soup snakes. B.J. and I are soup snakes.
It is sad when your hopes and your abilities do not line up.
An eye for an eye? That’s absurd. It solves nothing. You take my eye? I take your life, in a duel, Aaron Burr–style. I don’t want your stupid eye. For what? Yes, duels are the first thing you learn when you enter into my graduate program: The Harvard School of Vengeance.
Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. That’s why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves “worrying about” Amanda Bynes. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.
I read her first book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me two years ago or something after I finished my first The Office marathon and it was hilarious. I love Mindy. I gotta tell you, I am actually the introverted less awesome version of Mindy but once we're friends, I will not stop talking ever. Ever since The Office I've been kinda like I love Mindy Kaling She's Great and I Look Up To Her! and just recently I marathon The Mindy Project. It was awesome, you guys. I haven't finished it just yet I'm still on season 3 ep 11 or something (and weirdly got a spoiler from this book, so, thanks a lot for that). All of the essays in this book are really fun to read in my opinion and I think she has matured a bit compared to her first book, plus I could always relate to Mindy's stories (except stuff like when she met Obama. I couldn't relate to that obviously but that shit is dope as hell).
This book also taught me that you can't just cruise through life. You need to work your ass off to get what you want and at some point you will question yourself and people will question you but as long as you believe and yourself and be the best you can be then you're probably going to be fine.
Mom continued, “I live real life every day. Why do I need to see it when I come home?” How could I argue with that?
When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior.
It’s weird when you feel your dream slipping away from you. Especially when you have no other dreams. I was surprised that my overwhelming feeling was not sadness; it was terror.
I had reached the level of self-obsessed insanity at which point no reasonable person would ever feel sorry for me.
Things Mindy Lahiri and I Would Both Do: Pretend not to have seen Star Wars to enrage Star Wars fans
And that is why B.J. and I are soul mates, and the reason is … because in terms of the soul, we like to … That doesn’t make any sense. We’re soup snakes. B.J. and I are soup snakes.
It is sad when your hopes and your abilities do not line up.
An eye for an eye? That’s absurd. It solves nothing. You take my eye? I take your life, in a duel, Aaron Burr–style. I don’t want your stupid eye. For what? Yes, duels are the first thing you learn when you enter into my graduate program: The Harvard School of Vengeance.
Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. That’s why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves “worrying about” Amanda Bynes. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.