-Terrance Hayes, The Same City

-Terrance Hayes, The Same City

I was just scrolling through Pinterest and guess what I found out what to do?

[|87

(It's a plague doctor)

finding hope in humanity and other people

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk / down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs / to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” / when someone sneezes, a leftover / from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. / And sometimes, when you spill lemons / from your grocery bag, someone else will help you/ pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. / We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, / and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile / at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress / to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, / and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. / We have so little of each other, now. So far / from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. / What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these / fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, / have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”

— Small Kindnesses, Danusha Laméris

the wicked thing about minwoo arguing that youngwoo wouldn't have gotten her job without her connections is that he's not wrong - not when it comes to her abilities since she's proven several times how good she is as a lawyer (including during the current case they're handling together) and that's without even mentioning how good her results were in school but when it comes to people giving her a chance. she was not given one despite her stellar results by anyone because she is autistic and she was unemployed for several months before her father and the ceo talked about her. so technically minwoo is right, with the way things were she wouldn't have gotten this job (and that's not to say she wouldn't have been able to get another one somewhere down the line at all) but he made the conscious decision to see it as something unfair to him instead of something unfair to her that no law firm would take her in because she is autistic when they should've been welcoming her with open arms (because she was first always! she got almost perfect scores at the bar exams! because she is good at it and likes it and deserves to be treated with respect) and I think the fact that he doesn't see it as a blatant proof of society's prejudices and instead is set on fighting youngwoo as if she were part of the "strong ones" in this society and not one of the people the strong ones would like to oppress or put to the side speaks so much more about him than anything he's done before

everyday i become obsessed with little stories about how life is terrible but it will always be worth living because, even in spite of our darkest moments, there will be love around the corner. let life start and end with tragedy. let us be torn apart. let everything have no meaning because the meaning is ours to create. we don’t need perfection. we don’t need a happy ending because we have each other. we are the meaning of life. each moment of laughter, every time you feel that warm feeling in your stomach, that makes life worth living. why are we here? what’s the point. maybe there isn’t one. but we still have to live in this world we created, as awful as it is. so why not love each other. why not just live and laugh and cry and be. because we can