Oh yeah… Getting cancer was definitely not the way I imagined spending my late 20s with.
You are my everything
It’s been…. So long since I’ve been here.
Anyway, it reminded how I missed certain things but I don’t necessarily wish to return to them.
This is really talking about certain relationships I’ve had, and while I think of them fondly, they were also not good. In simpler terms they felt like energy vampires for me - I was constantly drained after each interaction, now I’ve found that the less people I have to deal with on a daily basis the better my mental health is.
Moving from MA to TX back in 2019 was better for me to get away from family - i have a much better relationship with my mom due to distance and I don’t have to interact with other family members. Having friends visit after a period of time had solidified that in my own, I outgrew them. I do wish them the best, but I don’t care to contact them.
Watch DAGrizzlyOwl with me on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/dagrizzlyowl?sr=a
If you like funny people, take a watch :3!
Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in.
They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much.
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth.
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad.
A long time ago I took a course on the sociology of marriage and my professor said “With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome.” Ever since, I never prioritize compromise in a relationship, only collaboration.
The police caught and arrested him.
But despite the heinous and violent crimes he was credibly accused of, he was released without bail. He was free for three months AFTER police discovered that he was abusing 12 underage black girls.
Chrystul Kizer was raped and trafficked by this man for years.
She’s now facing life in prison for defending herself against her attacker.
Free Chrystul Kizer!!!
Pls spread help spread the news!
SIGN THE PETITION
this isn’t an old post; the screenshot has a typo: her hearing is scheduled for february of 2020 and if she is convicted as charged she will spend life in prison. she will likely never be granted clemency. her case and the court are far more stacked against her than they were for cyntoia brown, who regardless still spent 15 years in prison.
please sign the petition.
Birds of Prey cast actresses Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Mary Elizabeth Winstead attend the film’s press release CCXP 2019 at Tangara Palace in Sao Paulo, Brazil on December 6, 2019. (Photo: Andre Moreira/Fotoarena/Sipa USA)