| How are you? Are you okay? Do you need someone to talk to? My email is in my profile. I used to have this neighbour. The first time I met him, I thought he was going to become a good friend. We talked for hours and I thought this cat was alright. The next time we talked, it turned out that he was a fucking anti-vaccer. Not a word of a lie, he said "Do you notice there are more kids with problems, you know, retards now?" He even put air quotes around 'retards'. In his cute little worldview, that's all because of vaccines. Fuck! I lost another friend. Or, there was this dude I worked with. I thought he was just about the coolest person I'd ever met. He was so smart, he had amazing taste in music, he had a great sense of humour and he even liked soccer. I thought I'd made a friend for life. It turns out that he takes freedom of expression literally and doesn't believe in hate speech laws. In his mind, advocating for genocide against the poor or mentally ill is totally fine. This might be the most real thing I will ever write, but people will disappoint you constantly. Some of the most amazing people will be nazis. Other people won't believe in the scientific method. And still others will do stupid fucking shit that will make your job suck. Find people who you love and let them love you back. Be fiercely loyal to those people because there won't be many of them. And, when you meet fuckstains who believe in stupid shit, you likely can't convince them. Or, you likely could though you don't want to. A vast part of their identity relies upon this stupid shit. If you pierce the veil, you'll have to put their shit back together. That's a fate worse than knowing anti-vaccers and nazis. |
Pick the best of each people and enjoy that.