Retreat into a fortress and you lose contact with the sources of your power.
You lose your ear for what is happening around you, as well as a sense of proportion.
Instead of being safer, you cut yourself off from the kind of knowledge on which your life depends.
A fortress seems the safest.
But isolation exposes you to more dangers than it protects you from — it cuts you off from valuable information, it makes you conspicuous and an easy target.
Better to circulate among people, find allies, mingle.
notice how ‘girls mature faster’ is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.
❌ Countries that WON'T improve your life if you emigrate
・Canada 🇨🇦 (rent that devours your salary)
・Ireland 🇮🇪 (jobs yes, housing no)
・Portugal 🇵🇹 (EU prices, low wages)
・United Kingdom 🇬🇧 (expensive visa, and even higher prices)
・Spain 🇪🇸 (long live structural unemployment)
✅ Countries that WILL ↓
13. The career you've built might impress others but mean nothing to your actual soul. Titles don't fill the void. If you're successful and still empty, success isn't the problem — you built someone else's dream and called it yours.
14. Your younger self would be disappointed in how safe you're playing it now as an adult. Remember when you had dreams bigger than comfort? You didn't survive your 20s just to spend your 30s hiding. That kid is still in there, ashamed.
The baby you aborted could have cured cancer."
So could the women you kept in the kitchen, denied their education, bodily autonomy, and basic human rights.
But you didn't care about them either.