Heartbreak

my fur is so shiny!

🐈‍⬛ Life

Hi friend! How’s the week going for you? Honestly, I’m having a really hard time right now because of a really rough breakup that was completely out of the blue and basically shattered most of the plans I had for the future in an instant. But yeah I was pretty much non-functional for a while but am trying to get myself back up now.

(๑*ᗜ*) Anime

I know I’m having a really hard time if I actually stop watching anime lol. But yeah, no anime.

I do recommend Parallel World Pharmacy though. It’s about a pharmacologist who died from overwork and got reincarnated into a medieval world with only primitive medicine. Yep it’s another isekai but it’s really good! It’s a world where he can use magic to make pharmaceuticals. Drugs + magic lol what could possibly go wrong?

It’s pretty scientifically accurate!

📖 Books

I’m currently reading a couple of books. One of them is called Attached which my friend Ken sent me as part of a post-breakup care package. The other is called 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do from my friend Ashish. I’ve had the support of so many amazing friends and I’m just incredibly grateful. ❤️

It sheds light on complex relationship dynamics

Attached is about different adult attachment styles. You may have heard about the three attachment categories: anxious, avoidant, and secure.

😰 Anxious people are preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner’s ability to love them back.

😬 Avoidant people see intimacy as a loss of independence and constantly try to withdraw and minimize closeness.

😊 Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.

I really appreciate this book because it’s helping me understand the relationship from an objective perspective. Highly recommend.

trying to not do these things

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, as its name suggests, is a book about strategies that help you develop mental strength. The 13 things are:

1. Don’t waste time feeling sorry for yourself

2. Don’t give away your power

3. Don’t shy away from change

4. Don’t focus on things you can’t control

5. Don’t worry about pleasing everyone

6. Don’t fear taking calculated risks

7. Don’t dwell on the past

8. Don’t make the same mistakes over and over

9. Don’t resent other people’s success

10. Don’t give up after the first failure

11. Don’t fear alone time

12. Don’t feel the world owes you anything

13. Don’t expect immediate results

I found the chapters on don’t waste time feeling sorry for yourself and don’t dwell on the past especially helpful. In the don’t feel sorry for yourself chapter, Amy talks about changing your perspective into gratitude. That has helped a lot.

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🌻 Learning & Productivity

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👨‍💻 What I’m Learning

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💻 Today’s coding challenge (SQL/Python)

🍔 An active Doordash interview question!

For each month of 2021, calculate what percentage of restaurants, out of these that fulfilled any orders in a given month, fulfilled more than 100$ in monthly sales?

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-Tina