I'm increasingly convinced the key to life is simply being yourself. When you hide your personality, you attract high maintenance relationships.
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Stop compromising yourself to be liked. The right people will stick. The wrong ones will walk. Let them.
@kornfreak78@thetripathi58 I’m sorry to hear that. Money is a real hindrance, especially these days. (I face a similar challenge.) Hopefully one or more of these pointers can help you begin changing your circumstances, by getting you into a situation where you can gain income
Paranoia often involves a certain kind of hubris, a distinct disinterest in other people’s actual inner lives.
Only the grandiose assume that the world cares enough about them to persecute them. They project their darkest fears and tendencies onto boogie men that don’t exist
Dear baby Jesus
I don’t ask for much
Just grant me, in 2026, the calm and the nonchalance of this girl to face the fires of life
That would be enough for me 🔥
When you’ve been outside the country for a good while, it’s always jarring to hear a random American accent in your vicinity. It’s like, “Geez, we sound like *that*?!”
Unfortunately the resurgence of genocidal antisemitism proves that it’s not enough. Amid Israel’s questionable decisions, even former white allies (and fellow minorities) have seemed to abandon their support in favor of a “new” persecuted group. It’s a tough, tough time (3/3
We’ve seen such awful, unjustifiable violence against the Jewish community in the past week. With so much hatred they’ve faced over the centuries, it’s a wonder that bitterness never feels to be their predominant language, the way it often has for blacks (1/3)
One might say that centuries of slavery and subsequent poverty are likely to leave an acrid taste in the mouth. In the West, Jews enjoy a certain whiteness or adjacency to whiteness, which has undoubtedly shielded them from certain indignities while aligning them with power (2/3)
There’s always something perverse about giving accessories like hats and scarves and shoes to otherwise naked characters like Pooh, the Grinch, and Frosty. They’re NAKED. Making them half-clothed only draws attention to their NAKEDNESS
The longstanding tradition of Hollywood movies decrying the very corrupt capitalist pencil pushers who produce them must be the the greatest joke ever told
Something curious that I’ve also found about cabs in India: often, drivers don’t listen to music or take calls—at least when I’m present (admittedly as a foreigner).
Does the silence provide respite from the chaos of modern life? Meditation? Do they not get bored?