Some days you are the person tucking your phone into bed for a big day of doing absolutely nothing, and other days you are a lone macaroni on the floor of a large aquarium. It is a beautiful disaster. These relatable memes are a tribute to the minor inconveniences and the major social anxiety that make up our existence. I am physically fighting my own shadow over my bank statement and honestly, the shadow is winning. Let us embrace the adulting struggles together, shall we?

Relatable memes

There is a universal urge to simply vanish from society whenever a phone call is requested. You look at Ben Affleck looking exhausted while smoking a cigarette and you realize that is the official face of modern communication. It is a survival tactic. This daily life humor is built on the internal struggle of failing to save money while playfully choking your own shadow. It is a visceral representation of my financial state. We are all just trying to explain basic morals to grown adults and feeling our heads glow red with frustration. It is an intellectual nightmare. I love the idea of Dracula exploding into bats just to avoid a social situation. That is a level of commitment to being a hermit that I can only dream of. These images capture the foot-in-mouth regret of saying something stupid and wanting to bury your head in a wall like a hammer. We have all been there. Whether you are a small chihuahua asking a question without anger or a lone man lying facedown in an aquarium, the feeling of being a stray macaroni is real. It is about the clumsy moments and the social survival tactics that keep us from completely losing our minds. We tuck our phones in for a big day of scrolling because sometimes that is the only thing we have the energy for. It is an honest, self-deprecating look at a world that is way too loud and way too expensive.

The POV of a cardboard box getting punched is the exact energy I bring to most of my life choices. It is a confused, high-stakes moment of chaos. These relatable memes are for the people who are socially exhausted and financially irresponsible, which I am pretty sure is everyone at this point. We laugh because it is true and because the alternative is admitting that we are all just Macaronis on the floor. It is a camaraderie of the clumsy and the anxious that makes the modern experience slightly more bearable.

If you are currently avoiding a phone call while reading this, you should check out some work from home memes, introverted humor, or maybe some budget fails. There is plenty of company in the struggle of being a functional human being. Just try to save a little money before your shadow takes you out for good.