I thought Alana Haim’s character’s dark secret in #TheDrama was more disturbing than Zendaya’s because she went through with it and it was actually traumatizing to another human.
The underlying commentary is about who gets to be given grace and who doesn’t.
my mom once told me “accountability will always feel like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others” and that shit is real.
Being kind is such a sure fire way to solidify being in a good mood, even from a vanity perspective you know how much prettier you automatically become from being a kind person?! It’s even a self confidence boost knowing you bring joy to other people!
I don’t want my daughter to be like me. I want her to speak up sooner. Walk away faster. Trust herself deeper. Apologize less. Take up more space. Ask bigger questions. Dream louder. And if that means she becomes everything I wasnt… GOOD!
My brother has Down syndrome. He is thirty four and he bags groceries at the same store he has worked at for sixteen years. He knows every regular by name. Last year a new manager transferred in and started cutting his hours. Said he was too slow. Said customers wanted efficiency. My brother came home confused and quiet. He kept asking what he did wrong. He did nothing wrong and telling him that did not fix the hurt in his face. Then something happened I still cannot talk about without crying.