This is not a heartwarming story, this is dystopian. How disgusting does an economic system have to be to where an 80 YEAR OLD person can’t retire without a $250k GoFundMe. Our government needs to do better, people in power need to do better.
I am a deeply, deeply happy person who is also deeply, deeply sad - and let me tell you, a strange thing it is to simultaneously love and loathe what it is to be alive
I dated this guy in high school that would always say “Man, it’s a good thing you’re pretty,” when I’d say something he thought was dumb or annoying and at the time I’d laugh but looking back I wish I would’ve fucking slapped him
I’ve spent my life watching my mom judge herself, hating her pieces and shapes
She is the greatest and most selfless person I’ve ever known
And when I look in the mirror everyday I see glimpses of her in my reflection and I feel so full and so warm and so beautiful