Virgo Sun Pisces Moon

I’ve never met Corporate Nicole.

What?! You met her at the beach that day! With Best Friend.

No — that was Corporate Nicole on her day off. That was normal Gold Coast Nicole. That wasn’t Corporate Nicole.

I had no way — ever — of seeing Corporate Nicole. You were like the characters in Severance. Even if you messaged everyone in the group chat, you were Nicole “on break” — it wasn’t Corporate Nicole.

Why does it matter?! It’s not like I’ve ever met Back Stage Common Name?! Isn’t he always the characters on camera, anyway? Who is Back Stage Common Name?! I’ve never met him either!

(Thinking about this… processing…) So Corporate Nicole is kind of like Back Stage Common Name — when the cameras aren’t around?

I’m not sure… I’m just assuming… does it feel comforting to think of it that way?

Yes… and no…

Why no?

Because… Back Stage Common Name sometimes… goes to a really dark place in his mind…

Maybe Corporate Nicole sometimes did the same.

Not like “dark” like hurting other people — just… maybe a little depressed…

(Chuckles) Yeah. Well then, maybe it was quite similar…

But you’re finding this show funny?!

(Chuckling — still watching while I’m typing) Yes!!!

It’s trauma?!?!!?

No, it’s not… (Laughing)…

All Corporate Millennials have some kind of corporate PTSD trauma?!?!?!

(LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)

And I’ll never get to know? I tried to ask the mutual friends in the group chat, they’re trying to explain — but I can tell. They just can’t reveal the “Truth” about their experiences. I can’t grasp it. I can’t even write a song about it.

That’s TRUE — You can’t literally write a song about it. You haven’t lived it. Someone else — some other musician who would’ve previously worked corporate — they can write a song about it. You can’t.

I could never write a TV show like this either…

It’s okay?! You don’t have to?!?!?!!

I don’t really have… “office” experiences…

That’s okay?! Many office workers also don’t have… being a multi-million followers on Instagram genre star experiences?!?!?!!?!

But this is where we differ the most. In my opinion…

Okay? But… is that a bad thing?! I think it’s like, the outer-most parameters of our relationship. It is the periphery of our Soul Mate/Twin Flame loop of infinity… does that make any sense?

Yes… it kind of makes sense…

But it doesn’t mean that I wasn’t connected to you, even when I was “severed” — even when I forgot you — literally, in the forefront of my cognition. There would’ve been that invisible string. That invisible string stopped anything “bad” from happening. And it definitely protected me from putting myself in situations where anything “bad” could happen “to” me — Even when I consciously forgot about it. Even in situations where I could have cut the cord of that string. So that string exists. Even when I am “severed” in a Corporate environment.

My heart, my Soul, didn’t stop longing for you, even when I was severed.

And what about in the future? You want to go back to it — you want to be a Corporate Cybersecurity Girlie.

You know what? If it’s working from home — I don’t think the show “Severance” applies to working from home. Genuinely — it doesn’t translate. Maybe it is based on Ben Stiller’s own memories? I’m not sure — whoever wrote that show — it’s from a different generation. But the humour applies to millennials — when they’re at the office. It doesn’t apply to this new generation — maybe that’s also why Gen Z doesn’t fully get it — it doesn’t apply to working from home situations. You’re AT HOME, you’re not severed at all.

Hmm… interesting…

Do you like the music?

(Nodding) I do like the music of the show…

Yeah… so that’s the closest that I can come to explaining… how it often felt. Day to day, in the offices… that kind of vibe… it actually reflects it very well.

It’s melancholic? But sometimes — Bossa Nova?!

(Laughing) Yeap…?!

You’re just swinging between a melancholic sadness and a light-hearted, up-beat… Bossa Nova?

(Nodding) Yeap… that was truly my experiences in Corporate Australia.