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Would you like to feel Whelmed?

The over/under of life's stress

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Robert R. Fike
Oct 12, 2023
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Has anyone ever felt whelmed?

We can feel overwhelmed.

We can feel underwhelmed.

But like… just whelmed?

I’m sure this was a joke or line from a movie somewhere, and the internet will boomerang the citation back to me in an angry shout from the comment section. Regardless, I want to feel whelmed.

But… I don’t actually want to be whelmed because I looked it u…

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