Growing up with a bunch of ball busters you always needed to be ready with a retort, a joke, or a clap back.
So eventually you get into a place where every single conversation you’re just absolutely locked in for talking shit.
This becomes weird when you grow up and move into a college and then industry with people that are 100% not ball busters.
You relax. You stop with the negging and jokes.
But the retorts never really leave your subconscious. Even 20 years later, I still hear every conversation with little gray shit talking responses floating in my mind like auotocomplete suggestions.
It’s like in the end of A Beautiful Mind where the imaginary people are still there but he’s at peace with ignoring them.
The imaginary clapbacks are there, sad, waiting for me to use them. Always. Forever.
@hugodeboss1@tadgh_dc Again you don’t get it at all so there’s no point in me trying to explain that the fbi (or maybe someone other fed agency) will not let parents of murdered white kids talk to media for a multitude of their own reasons