👉 Okay, settle into your seats folks - let’s tackle this… peculiar little piece of 21st-century vernacular: "
PlanningPC.
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Now, immediately, a reasonable eyebrow might raise. Why the designation? Well, essentially, a PlanningPC is a very specific, and frankly rather depressing, state of mind you hit when obsessively outlining every single conceivable detail for an impending, probably disappointing, life event. Think meticulously charted spreadsheets detailing your disastrous attempt to rekindle a long-dormant friendship, colour-coded contingency plans for the inevitable awkward small talk, and little, pathetic checklists ranking potential successes from 1 (Absolutely Not Gonna Happen) to... let's say, 0.01 (A Fleeting Glimmer of Hope That Will Immediately Be Extinguished). Basically: you are so terrified of messing up that you spend your entire waking thought process constructing a fortress against the possibility of anything actually going… okay. The acronym itself is just the pathetic leftover of old-fangled PC times and the idea that there is some kind of strategic, calculated planning to this whole thing. The origin? It seems it started circulating pretty strongly around 2018 in fairly depressing corners of online subreddits, specifically those dealing with anxieties about dating and disappointing first dates. You'd see guys posting elaborate diagrams titled "Operation: Successfully Ask Out Stacy, Version 3.2.1 (…Probably Failing)." Hence the name -
