Fast fashion is not “democratization” of fashion. The overproduction, pollution, and exploitation of labor that comes with it far outweighs the “benefits” of more people being able to buy more stuff.
at some point you need to accept that you are also made up of people you don’t talk to anymore, people who hurt you, people you hate. and that forgiving them is forgiving yourself. that love can exist in pockets of time, and stay there. even when you’ve left and can’t turn back
depression is embarrassing because sometimes it makes you miss appts and not return phone calls and when the fog starts to lift you gotta do a whole fuckin apology tour
grief has hammered me into a specific shape & i’m slowly remembering all the things i used to do when i was capable of other shapes, versions of me that hadn’t experienced so much change so quickly. it’s like regrowing phantom limbs, a familiar stretch i didn’t know i’d forgotten
in my depression therapy group you have NOOO idea how often guilt about not responding to texts from loved ones came up. and the fear of this kind of response created a vicious cycle where they were then too ashamed to reach out/reply after any time had passed
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 50s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone" Michael Okuda
How quick we forget
now that i drive regularly, i've become so fascinated by just how terrible and dangerous the median American driver is. like, all of the rules you have to learn to get licensed seem to slowly get replaced with "take the most selfish and impatient action at any given time"