If you look closely at people, all they are really doing is inviting bondage. They chase freedom, only to become bound by the very things they once believed would set them free.
Most people are not escaping bondage. They are decorating it.
It’s become cool to have a mental illness, to some degree. People are just trying to make sense of their pain in a world that rewards visibility. But when suffering turns into aesthetic or social capital, we forget what recovery looks like.