If You Consider Yourself Self-aware But Only Acknowledge The Things You Need To Change And Not The Things

You've been carrying a lot lately. I'm proud of you for enduring, but remember you don't have to carry it all alone. It's okay to ask for help.

Art by Julia Sidorenko

gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

Y'all have got to get better at handling uncertainty. Sometimes two people will have a falling out and you legitimately won't be able to tell which one was the abuser and which one was the victim. Sometimes you'll encounter a stranger online who might be a channer troll trying to stir shit up or might be a deeply traumatized person trying their hardest to speak their truth. That person with the gendery vibes might be a trans egg or they might be a cis person who just does whatever the hell they want. You have got to learn to act appropriately when you can't know everything.

they dont want us to know this but the real cure to the agonies is to engage in shenanigans. tomfoolery even 

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

some things i didn’t realize i needed to hear…

you have permission to make mistakes. you have permission to fail. you have permission to be sad. you have permission to not be over it. you have permission to struggle with difficult things or even “easy” things.

if you are abroad and want to help:

do not post graphic pictures of victims or videos of the kidnapping victims, especially not the ones showing them being harmed.

donate:

Magen David Adom

https://www.mdais.org/en/donation

Red Crescent

3. stop glorifying violence. this is war, both sides are doing atrocities and this suck for the people living here. all the people living here