Finding balance in routine and falling into the steps of adulthood is tricky! I share a chunk of my experience here in my new post.
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I write about beauty and mental health blogs for the emotionally unavailable & scorched. I write glow-up guides, breakup recovery stories, skincare confessions, & unhinged personal essays that hit a little too close to home.
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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This story is personal. And it’s an urgent question Christendom must contend with: why are white Christians the meanest people on the internet?
The Messages That Broke Me
The problem is that a large minority of these “adults” are choosing not to work or have a career, not to date, not to own many possessions and to not have a family. They want to earn the minimum amount possible to survive and then live life on the internet.
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I obviously can't speak to everybody who's in this situation, but when I decided to become a minimalist (way before it was cool, obviously), it was because I couldn't stand the thought of funding all of the immoral shit that go…
So Commander, do you have an explanation or a solution? Do we all need to just be resigned to our fate, or is there something we could do about all this? (I think there is.)
Personally I think the solution lies with seeking out like-minded folks and routing around the entire system when possible. Cooperative collaboration is the most powerful human force in the world -- we need to take advantage of it.
The 2,000 word version is here:
I surround myself with like-minded folks. Unfortunately that means that I don't have many friends LOL.
That's OK. Now that I'm semi-retired I can be more choosey. I don't have to toady to asshole co-workers and bosses. And I've decided that I don't want to waste my energy befriending people who I don't share values with. COVID has left me with fewer friends and it has distanced me from some family members. That's actually a good thing. You learn who you can trust and who you want to spend time with.
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Yeah, it's been a lonely road the past 4 years. COVID winnowed out the wheat from the chaff, and there is little in the wheat pile. Ostracized at my university (I'm a professor), my friends too afraid to venture out and live, I've become more introverted than ever. My kids and my sister are all on the same page, so I have that, at least. But a year ago I made a conscious decision to flee Baltimore City for a few acres in WV. It's hard as heck tending the land, building a garden, raising chicken…
Good on ya.
Exactly. Why would I want to be friends with people who would have happily turned in Anne Frank?
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The entire field of psychiatry saw "antidepressants" destroy their patients and said, yep, sounds good.
The entire field of pediatrics saw vaccines maim the kids in their care and said, yep, sounds good.
The entire field of cardiology saw statins cause dementia & falls and said, yep, sounds good.
Hundreds of thousands of medical professionals are engaged in organized crime.
The fascists figured out that the larger the crime, the easier it is to get away with it. Kill one person and everyone is outraged. Kill one million people and suddenly lots of ordinary citizens get scared and look the other way. That's what happened during Covid. Most people are cowards.
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Nearly every industrialized country faces the same set of problems:
• A retired baby boom population that is very expensive.
• Less need for new workers because of automation.
• Overall lack of economic growth.
Coincidentally, Covid shots solve all of those problems.
• Covid shots kill the seniors, voilà, costs disappear.