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" You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Work

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" I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs. "

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" Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it. "

" I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled. "

" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "

" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "

" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "

" Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated. "

" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "

" Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page. "

" People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at. "

" From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Age

First

" I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. "

" If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time. "

" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "

" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "

" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "

" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "

" Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage. "

" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "

" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "

" Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook. "

" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "

" When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow. "

" Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it. "

" The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears. "

" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "

" I've always been a texting advocate. "

" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "