when virginia woolf said “the only prescription for me is to have a thousand interests” she was sooo right, the best way to combat the human condition is to immerse deep into your obsessions
i love concerts because no matter how shitty your life is at the moment, everything just seems to make sense in those couple of hours and you feel so alive and happy and there's so much adrenaline and happiness and all your problems just kinda fade away for a little bit.
sometimes i think about the genius behind how niall horan successfully built his whole brand around love. love for others, yourself, life, and the world, in all forms. and it's authentic because he's overflowing with it. his fandom name is literally called "Lovers."
Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent. None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say"most men are the same," this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.