sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
When You're Bored, You're Being Shaped.
Boredom isn’t the absence of stimulation. It’s a test. Of what you reach for. Of what you default to.
Do you grab your phone? Or a pen? Do you scroll? Or sit with your thoughts? Do you numb? Or build?
Because what you do when you're bored becomes who you are when you're not.
Boredom is a doorway. To creativity. To clarity. To the things you keep avoiding.
Stop escaping it.
My liver’s perfect. My kidneys are divine. My glucose is… a little dramatic. We’re waiting on more tests. And I’m being very brave about it.
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You might as well define libertarianism as the view that most governments are not minarchies, utilitarianism as the view that pleasure is not maximized and pain is not minimized, Marxism as the view that the proletariat does not own the means of production, etc. Like these, feminism is a normative position, not an observational one. That's why feminists reject your definition even though they agree with the content of your proposed definition—that society generally treats men better than women.…
"they would probably not bother being feminists, because there would be little to nothing left for a feminist movement to do."
1) All movements eventually become a racket, activists have stuff to do whether we think those things are worthwhile.
2) Even if you think men and women are treated fairly, your goal as a feminist could be for women to be treated MORE fairly than men (men treated unfairly). You wouldn't SAY this is what your doing (even to yourself), but an outside observer would characterize it that way.
