I was distracted and so busy when I was your age, no time to slow down. Kids, pets, so much work at my job, never time to think!

Do you exercise? That mental feeling of dissatisfaction can be complicated by physical idleness - I do have to exhaust my body to calm my mind.

Do you have people IRL? Even if you are introverted and asexual you still need a baseline level of community, of people to talk with and be with.

You don't need to achieve anything to be a whole person. I do think your instinct is correct that it's something that doesn't exist because there are so many successful unhappy people, you are outwardly successful already. So maybe you are missing physical activity or social activity.

I had the original Pixel, and now the 5, not sure if I will get one next time but this one is still good.

It's kind of like my car - I have a 6 speed 2014 Honda, it does everything I want & nothing I don't want. Newer ones are better in some ways, but not in ways I want.

I don't want a fancier phone or car, I want a more reliable one that does the things I want it to do. Not stuffed with "features".

Olive oil washed gin and gin washed olive oil, that is kind of funny.

I bet that oil would be nice in a salad dressing.

Oh that's hard. I hate, hate, hate those mixes. Would do bone broth for some meals, fruit and yogurt smoothies for others, and definitely throw some nut butter (cashew, almond, whatever) into the smoothie.

Date shakes are good, lots of sugar but fiber and nutrition.

And if you can tolerate soup - a can of cannelini beans, a can of butternut squash puree, and some chicken or vegetable broth, with salt and whatever else you want, is so easy, delicious and again does have fiber. Just heat them together then blend with a stick blender.

That's more like an allergy I think. My mom couldn't eat cilantro or coriander (cilantro is coriander greens). I don't think it tastes the same to me as it does to you. But I do know one guy who sort of powered through (he was a chef) and tolerates it now, I wouldn't say likes it but it doesn't ruin a dish for him either.

Try frying the mushrooms alone until crispy, make sure they are dry dry dry if you wash them, slice or tear (depending on the variety) and fry them. No salt until they are done. I use this technique with both mushrooms and okra for people who say they do not like them, because usually it's a texture issue. Personally I like the texture of both but understand it, they are kinda slimy. And I like them fine without the slime too, so not like I suffer when eating them soft but crisp.

If there is no extra moisture from water, and no salt to pull water out of them, both okra and mushrooms can be prepared dry. Don't crowd the pan!

I had the same papaya experience. That's unripe green papaya, though, not fruity vomit-flavored papaya.

When my husband and I were dating he took me to a Vietnamese restaurant and I ordered that salad and he couldn't eat it, so spicy. I love it though. This does relate to the claim in this post though as my Laotian friend said her mom used ant eggs or a bug paste of some sort (I can't remember exactly but some insect based ingredient) in hers. She was the one who introduced me to this dish in the first place, I'd given her some hot peppers from my yard. So even if it had bugs on purpose I did love it. And that is not an ingredient I would like alone no way.

Put a big iron skillet on low on the stove with a smaller skillet or bacon press in it. When they get hot, put the sandwich on the big pan with foil on top, place the other pan or press on top.

That's how I press sandwiches.

This really depends. When I had little kids and was restaurant training them, I would tip very high because the bill did not at all represent the work of the wait staff.

If my husband and I are indulgent (unusual) the bill is more than the work, we do 20% still because we know they aren't paid enough.

Drinks? $1-$2 each one.

Grass here grows so fast in the summer even though our temperature is similar because it's (thankfully) our rainy season. It dies back in the winter or at least slows way down.

Unfortunately our rainy season has not yet dug us out of the historic drought of the last couple years.

ETA we do not water the "lawn" though, it just does what it does. Is mostly weeds. I do water the food plants.

Florida cities are pretty liberal too. Except maybe Jacksonville but that's nearly In Georgia. And Naples but that's all expat northerners, and there is nobody more racist than the northerners that move down here.

I thought this was satire but looked up mr. macintosh and it's real. Dude, are you on death's door? No time to wait for the bananas to get ripe?

To be fair - If they are platanos - I wouldn't buy such green plantains because those fuckers are green, green, green for weeks then yellow but not ready and I forget about them and miss the one day they are ripe.