Idk If Any More Words Are Needed Since It’s Penned So Perfectly

idk if any more words are needed since it’s penned so perfectly

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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pr4kritii

3 years ago

therapy 😺

Susan Sontag, I, etcetera: Stories

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pr4kritii

2 years ago

gotta learn how to change :/)

“If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Gaskins

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pr4kritii

3 years ago

the way they look at each other 😫

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pr4kritii

3 years ago

this exactly represents the office.

mostly my career goals are to hang out with friends and do whatever is funniest in the moment. hope that helps

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pr4kritii

2 years ago

how introverts acc feel like (subjective)

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pr4kritii

3 years ago

help would be nice :)

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pr4kritii

1 year ago

hi guys. ik you missed me 🫢