Reparations
"It is a messed up thing to be unkind to yourself but it’s progress when you start realizing it." - a very dear friend. Last year invoked and forced a lot of change for me. I found myself up at odd times at night dissecting the things I believe in and really diving into the what’s, why’s, and how’s. Under different circumstances, I would never have had the time to think and reconsider the essence of the most personal things. Where I’m going with this strain of thought, is that we often undermine the value of very simple things in our life. We don't all live the same frequency of the enormous undertaking that is life and so we don’t quite value the same things similarly. So you spend a lot of time being unkind to yourself basing your life on someone else’s. And it isn’t the same. It will never be the same. So why do it? On the one hand, we can put all of the blame on society and it’s inhuman expectations on its very diverse human individuals. But way out, on the other hand...