As someone with much older friends, you will meet men and women who would be fond of you for no sexual reason whatsoever. They’ll be generous. They’ll buy you gifts. And they’ll want nothing in return.
It’s more common than you think.
🟡 Monsieur Malik,
Nous tenions à vous remercier publiquement pour votre geste.
Grâce à votre vigilance et à votre discernement, les enquêteurs ont pu retrouver la petite Lyhanna.
La France entière doit savoir que vous avez joué un rôle déterminant.
Malheureusement, vous ne serez sans doute jamais mis en avant à la télévision ou dans la presse comme d’autres le seraient. Pourtant, votre action mérite le respect et la reconnaissance de tous.
Merci pour votre vigilance, votre sens du devoir et votre courage. 💛👏
🕊️ À la famille de Lyhanna,
Aucun mot ne pourra soulager votre douleur.
Dans cette terrible épreuve, nos pensées vous accompagnent. Toute la France partage votre peine et pleure la disparition de la petite Lyhanna.
Nous vous adressons nos plus sincères condoléances et tout notre soutien.
La vitesse à laquelle certains hommes noirs requalifient les discours des femmes noires en théorie raciale ou en logique d’extrême droite dès qu’elles abordent la misogynie qu’elles subissent me fascine
There is a lot of luck invovled with finding a spouse, particularly one worthy of having children with, so I side-eye pretty much all comments looking down on those who haven't settled down. It's arrogant and shows a lack of self-awareness.
Nobody talks about how God’s love is not transactional. It doesn’t increase when you’re faithful and decrease when you’re not. It doesn’t reward your good seasons and withhold in your bad ones. It’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Lmao I have 2.
Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
Mother Teresa let dying patients be treated with blunt reused needles, had a mortality rate about 40% in her clinics and when she was confronted about the conditions, said there’s something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, and to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. Doctors called her facilities “homes for the dying”. And cancer patients were given aspirin for pain.
Gandhi too, the face of universal peace, the person that said “be the change you wish to see”, spent years in South Africa describing Black Africans as “savage”, “dirty” and living like animals. He campaigned actively to prove to British rulers that Indians were superior to native Black Africans. He also organized a brigade to help suppress a Zulu uprising. His defenders say he evolved. Maybe.
Nobody likes to talk about the entire sides of history.
And these are their summarized versions btw.
@lovedropx Also, becoming "yourself" isn’t always about adding more. It’s about removing what was never truly you. Roles, expectations, coping strategies… it can often look like loss before that "you" takes shape.
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My twin sister and I aged out of foster care on the same day at eighteen which sounds like it should mean we had each other and therefore were fine. What it actually means is that two people with nothing faced a system that considers its job complete the moment the clock runs out and wishes you well with the particular indifference of paperwork.
We had a social worker named Miss Charlene who was not assigned to us anymore the day we turned eighteen.
Her caseload moved on and technically so should she have. She did not move on. Showed up at the group home on our birthday with a cake and two folders. Inside each folder was everything she had spent three months quietly assembling. Apartment listings she had called ahead about. Bus routes to the community college. A list of employers who had hired former foster youth and treated them decently. Phone numbers with names attached and notes about who to ask for.
She sat with us for four hours that afternoon going through every page...
Then she wrote her personal cell number on the inside cover of both folders and said use it.
We used it. Many times. More than we probably should have.
She answered every time.
My sister is a registered nurse now.
I run a mentorship program for youth aging out of foster care.
Miss Charlene came to both of our graduations.
Front row.
Same smile both times.
we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.
We used to make this joke with my daddy all the time, until one day he actually got offended. He said something along the lines of "I made it clear to you that men can use, and abuse, I never left you unprepared, I was a good man to your mother, and a good father to you so that have a standard, not for you to judge all men by my actions .." - if you had a great father, thank him for providing you with a standard. 🥹🩷
The best way to honor your parent(s) is to be successful. Go further than them. Higher. The best way to honor your kid(s) is to be successful. Leave them a little something, so they won't have to fight the same dragons you fought.
I recently learned something that shifted how I understand prayer. When the Bible says “the God of Abraham/David/Jacob,” it’s not repetition,it’s revelation. God’s name is attached to people’s stories so we understand how He shows up. The God of Jacob is the God who stays with the struggler. The God of David is the God who restores after failure. The God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is the God who delivers in the fire. Growing up, I heard my mom pray like this all the time.
I didn’t realize she was calling on specific dimensions of God’s faithfulness. Now I understand, when we say “the God of…” we’re saying, “Do here what You did there.”
Il faut ne jamais avoir vécu les bombardements la guerre et le sang pour ne pas comprendre ce qu’est la terreur.
Bien sûr qu’ils ont peur.
Vouloir échapper au fisc ne prémuni pas de la peur de crever ou de voir les siens mourir.
Abolir ses privilèges c’est aussi ne pas silencier le mal des autres.