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Transformation Metamorphosis
I disappeared for a while and came back with the usual excuses. Underneath them was a more familiar truth: change was coming, and I was not nearly as brave about it as people like to pretend they are.
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The joke usually has a point. The point usually has feelings.
wisdomofpj is a personal culture journal by PJ — essays, satire, domestic evidence, internet nonsense, and sincere overthinking about growing up without pretending to have already figured it out.
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Letter Up Above
Some conversations do not end just because the other person is gone. This is a letter to the man whose absence still feels unfinished.
Read Letter Up AboveTransformation Metamorphosis
I disappeared for a while and came back with the usual excuses. Underneath them was a more familiar truth: change was coming, and I was not nearly as brave about it as people like to pretend they are.
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If there is one thing the internet loves more than money, it is pretending there is a shortcut to getting it. This is a brief educational study of that disease.
Read How to Earn Millions of Bucks Online Fast!!! [WORKING 100%] [FOOLPROOF]Latest writing
Recent dispatches from the overthinking department.
Preordained Partings
Uncle PJ returns to talk about relationships, not just romantic ones, and why some connections arrive already carrying their ending in the fine print. Also, naturally, a brief and completely necessary detour into influencers.
Nothing Really Matters
Before you roll your eyes and assume this is one of those posts, hear me out: too many people let tiny things occupy far more emotional space than they deserve.
How to Earn Millions of Bucks Online Fast!!! [WORKING 100%] [FOOLPROOF]
If there is one thing the internet loves more than money, it is pretending there is a shortcut to getting it. This is a brief educational study of that disease.
The Secrets of Bros
A world-renowned researcher returns with a confidential report on bros: rom-com denial, imaginary signals, missed real signals, handshake politics, and the strange emotional delay built into the average male brain.
Departments
The recurring evidence.
Satire
Jokes with a steering wheel: absurd, overconfident, and usually pointing at something real.
Browse SatireReflective
The quieter pieces where the bit runs out of breath and the feeling finally speaks.
Browse ReflectiveCollege Archive
Older college-era writing, preserved with affection and a small amount of forensic embarrassment.
Browse College ArchiveInternet Nonsense
Hustle theatre, fake certainty, and the online machinery that keeps selling shortcuts as destiny.
Browse Internet NonsenseRelationships
Family, friendship, partings, unfinished conversations, and the emotional paperwork people leave behind.
Browse RelationshipsPeople-Watching
Taxonomies, bros, introverts, commuters, gym converts, and the human comedy of noticing too much.
Browse People-WatchingDomestic Evidence
Objects, rooms, clothes, towels, cupboards, and the strange places memory chooses to live.
Browse Domestic EvidenceComing soon. The evidence is being gathered.
Masculinity
Bros, performance, gym logic, emotional delay, and the private operating system of becoming a man.
Browse Masculinity