|| video | @ciscodelamancha | feb 10 ||

[franciscoramon]

[ The video starts off shaky, clearly taken using the front-facing camera on a phone being wielded by a deeply intoxicated Cisco Ramon. He is pink-cheeked and bright-eyed and giggling so much he has difficulty speaking. ]

Heyooo Quarantine! Sup! Guess what?! It's my birthday today! That means I'm twenty fuckin' five, which means I'm totally old, and wise, and stuff. So I thought it'd be fun if y'all sent me, like, questions! For advice! You know, like Dear Abby, only instead it's Dear Cisco. I've been around a whole quarter of a century now so you best believe I've got plenty of knowledge I can drop on ya like that!

[ He lifts the hand not holding the phone, clearly meaning to snap, but realizes belatedly he's still holding a glass. He turns away from the screen, muttering a quick Babe, babe hold this for me- before handing off the drink to someone outside the shot. Then he looks at the camera once more and snaps, not loudly enough to be heard and late enough that it is unintentionally very comical. ]

It's cool if you send them anonymous or not, anything goes. Lemme help you make some good-ass choices in your life! Or if you're not feeling the advice game you could just like do some shout outs and holler at your loved ones.

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text; un: sg.rogers

[livingsymbol]

Happy birthday. Since you're a year wiser, tell me: should I be jealous of how at home all my friends seem to be here? They go to parties and meet new people, but I'm not that comfortable yet.

[This is kind of a gift, right?]

@ciscodelamancha | text

[franciscoramon]

can i tell ya something?
in my experience jealousy;s not an emotion thats gonna listen to 'should' or 'shouldn't'
if you're jealous, you're jealous
the important thing is what you do with it

you're unhappy with your situation
and you got two options:
let that feeling get all up between you and your friends and turn things bitter and ugly
so you're unhappy any time they feel good
or you look at your situationa nd decide how to be happy yourself
whether it's going out more and faking it til you feel comfortable
or readjusting where your heads at so you don't feel like you OUGHT to be doing parties like them

it's up to you but i think option b is way beter
and i say that as somebody who was jealous of otherpeople a lot when i was younger
so i've been there you know??

[livingsymbol]

Well, I'm not that great at faking things. At least, that's what I hear.

But I appreciate that advice. If I can, I'll try to make myself adjust more. It's a little different. I've always been where I belonged.

I thought.

[franciscoramon]

me either, dude.
welcome to the no poker face squad
we've got t-shirts.

just remember... everybody else has gone through it too
none of us belonged here to start
it might seem like everyons totally well adjusted on the outside but
they might be faking

[livingsymbol]

Are there dues?

Does everyone else deal with that the same way?
You seem to be on top of things.