I'm sure the answer is more complex than this, but I see it as basically checking our intentions of why we do something.
Am I doing this for myself because I want to or am I doing this to for in or make others happy/more comfortable? And just ask yourself that 1,000 times 😅 jk but... It's a lot lol
As far as I can tell, there isn't one. At least not in the traditional singular sense.
We talk about wearing and removing masks per circumstance, as if lying. In reality, we need to switch behaviours to function per environment.
It's a bit dense for social media, but that's the rough outline.
This hit home with me. I have been doing this w my enormous MAGA family for so long. We’ve a family agreement to not talk politics, but just be together & love each other. I announced to them recently that I am done with keeping my mouth shut. I don’t know how they feel, but I feel so much better!
Trying and failing to joke about sacrificing someone else instead in a way that's not already present in the capitalist hellscape. An attempt was made.
"The students come up to me and say, Bill, I am scared to put down the first strokes, and I say NO, you must WRECK THE CANVAS, and FIRE IN. NO MERCY. YOU ARE THE GREATEST ARTIST OF ALL TIME..." --Bill Alexander on PBS back in the day
A great example why: when you're authentic, you attract your tribe. My silly little quirks and shit have gained me the best friends of my life and continue to attract like-minded weirdos into the fray
I wish I had this advice as a teenager - I feel like my adulthood has been spent reclaiming the parts of myself I cut away in the hopes of being more accepted.
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You will only end up surrounded by people you can't stand and avoided by the people you would love to spend time with.
Writers always have like five thousand more things to say.
Am I doing this for myself because I want to or am I doing this to for in or make others happy/more comfortable? And just ask yourself that 1,000 times 😅 jk but... It's a lot lol
We talk about wearing and removing masks per circumstance, as if lying. In reality, we need to switch behaviours to function per environment.
It's a bit dense for social media, but that's the rough outline.
When you're you, you're never alone