People who have travelled a lot tend to judge less. Not because they became nicer, but because they ve seen too many versions of what's "normal." In one country, it's normal to eat with your hands. In another, it's normal to stay quiet at the table. In third, it's normal to hug a stranger. When you've seen 30 different versions of "the right way," you stop believing yours is the only one. Travel doesn't just teach geography. It teaches tolerance
My coworker used to take the long way home every night. Two extra bus stops, more walking, more money, more time. One day I asked her why she didn’t just take the shortcut alley behind our building.
She laughed and said, “Oh, because a guy followed me there once and told me he could ‘do whatever he wanted’ and no one would hear me scream.”
So now, every night, she calls a male friend and pretends she’s on the phone with her “boyfriend.” Sometimes she even laughs loudly and says things like, “Yeah, I’ll see you in five minutes, babe,” even when she’s completely alone.
Not because she wants attention.
Not because she’s dramatic.
Because sounding “taken” and “protected” is safer than sounding like a woman by herself.
Men cannot even begin to understand the calculations women make every day just to get home alive.
i don't know who needs to hear this but in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you’re innocent in the story you created
BREAKING: William Kelso Flournoy, a man pretending to be a woman, was arrested in WA state after he allegedly R*PED an infant girl.
Why does this keep on happening?!
My grandma once told me: “You should fall in love with someone intelligent, because on the days you can’t have sex, it becomes really valuable to be able to have a glass of wine and talk.”
My husband hugged me from behind and said "thank you so much for everything you did today." Then kissed me. My toddler then walked up, hugged me from behind and said "thank you for making me soup mama." Then kissed my arm. YOUR CHILDREN SEE EVERYTHING.
At a Hampshire school, vulnerable school pupils were used as guinea pigs and forced to inject themselves with blood taken in secret trials. They were unwittingly infected with HIV and Hepatitis
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