the thing is caring for your mom with dementia (and four rescue cats want one) means the world’s forever on my shoulders but then you macgyver resplendent glass of homemade cold brew with oat milk for her and suddenly she’s singing and dancing to Queen so yeah we’ll be okay Xo
whereupon me ordering inside Starbucks hi
g: (perusing menu) man so dang pumpkiny
guy: hey what can I get you pumpkinnn
g: um, are you calling me pumpkin
guy: I can if you want me to
g: delicately nods orders dirty chai
guy: ready soon pumpkin
g: thanks crumpet (winks)
listen we may have one mad saturday night disco ball prisms reflecting in our doe eyes shimmery dance break then we’re donning rocker tees jammie bottoms lip gloss and sashaying off to bed with our marshmallow lioness butterscotch tigress and velvet panther them’s the rules Xo
enabling (is bad) changes no one we can’t change anyone other than ourselves but being present supportive offering strength hope love and showing up so that someone knows they’re not alone in their struggles someone believes in them someone is there for them is a beautiful thing
hey listen can we maybe not nonchalantly say to anyone anywhere ever NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU yeah I get it truer words never spoken but honestly kinda harsh for delicate souls in a broken world no man is an island and the pull yourself up by your bootstraps rhetoric sucks
keep seeing this phrase in commentary (on how to get your shit together) and as someone who has lost her adored brilliant creative charming older brother to suicide three years ago (fatally poisoned by alcoholism) the NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU approach is wounding and barbaric
hey listen can we maybe not nonchalantly say to anyone anywhere ever NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU yeah I get it truer words never spoken but honestly kinda harsh for delicate souls in a broken world no man is an island and the pull yourself up by your bootstraps rhetoric sucks
hey listen can we maybe not nonchalantly say to anyone anywhere ever NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU yeah I get it truer words never spoken but honestly kinda harsh for delicate souls in a broken world no man is an island and the pull yourself up by your bootstraps rhetoric sucks
well yeah harbor clandestine desire to recreate this supercool choreography anyway Thom Yorke is cooler than you (and me) so there’s that babes 🕺🏻
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