I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt.
Sometimes wisdom is not revenge.
Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
girl to girl: sometimes you’ll find an old picture of yourself and suddenly realize you were actually beautiful during a time when you spent so much energy criticizing yourself.
i looked into brian steel bc him succeeding in durk & thug’s cases isn’t even the half of it. in 1992 he was assigned an “unwinnable” attempted-murder case involving an illiterate man named greg shephard. steel couldn’t get him to talk so he slept in jail w him until he opened up
then he investigated the witnesses, found evidence shephard wasn’t the shooter & got him home. they made a deal: if steel got him out, shephard would learn to read. years later he got a job at the atlanta journal-constitution & came to steel’s office every thursday to read to him
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 28-year-old Marcy Borders was at her desk on the 81st floor of the North Tower.
It was her first month on the job.
When the plane hit, her boss told everyone to stay where they were. Marcy ignored him and ran for the stairs.
She reached the lobby of a nearby building just as the tower came down behind her. A photographer caught her standing there, frozen, covered head to toe in grey dust.
To the world, she became known as "The Dust Lady."
But she never wanted to be famous for it. She became afraid of planes and tall buildings. She started drinking and using drugs, lost custody of her kids, and spent years unable to work.
In 2011, she went to rehab and got clean.
Three years later, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Marcy always believed the disease came from the dust she breathed that morning. She died on August 24, 2015, at 42.
Nolan Wells’ story is fading from the timeline. Every like, comment, share, and repost helps keep his name — and the fight for answers — alive.
Please don’t let his story disappear.
I am irreplaceable. I am irresistible. I am the luckiest person in the world. I always get what I want instantly and effortlessly. Everything in the universe works in order to give me whatever I desire always.
Having parents who didn't prepare you for literally anything in life, judging you for being "behind" as an adult is definitely a canon event for a lot of neurodivergent people.
The secret to being a private person is to overshare dumb shit so that people think you’re an open book but then not tell them any of the important details of your life
Y'all get irritated with people fast because y'all parents did the same with you. Y'all can't communicate because y'all parents couldn't. Y'all think yelling/ being aggressive every time u disagree with something is okay because y'all parents yelled/ got hostile when they.