Thinking a lot about the line "you try so loud to love me / I cannot seem to hear" because like. Do they realize that this one silly little line in a silly little song singlehandedly helped me get over the "do my friends hate me" mindset. Do they know that it made me start listening to how people love me. Wild.
saw this tiktok like "when pro choice women die all the aborted babies block their path to heaven"...um I could literally just step around them. babies have NOTHING on me
I don't know; I kind of think that our culture is based around systematic denial of human limitations. I mean, there's the eight-hour work day (which is about 4 hours longer than most people are consistently able to remain productive); buffing your qualifications on job applications (which everyone needs to do to some extent, because everyone else is doing it); the expectation of multitasking, even though it's not really possible; academics are running around with impostor syndrome, ultimately because there's only so many books that an individual is capable of reading, while a bunch of liars and grifters pretend that they're experts at *everything* and are held up as thought leaders. Billionaires are held up as if they're just incredibly hard workers, photoshopped movie stars held up as if they're just incredibly beautiful. We feel guilty for not being something that never has and can never exist.
the older and weirder i get the more i'm beginning to realize that i was actually a very cool kid who had no shame or fear until i was taught that i'd be punished for it and everything since then has been a slow uphill battle to get that part of myself back
