Please Make Sure That Wherever Youre At In Life, You Dont Treat It Like A Transitory Period. Dont Waste

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

There is no shared white history. Europeans all hated each other from the first settlers up until the 1500s. No Italian has even fucking heard the word “Odin” until long after (”white”) christian missionaries nearly eradicated that religion. If  you and I are both white than our ancestors probably fucking hated each other. Hell, if you’re a white mutt like me, various roots of your own family tree fucking hated each other and considered each other foreign savage barbarians. The only thing that unifies the white race is skin color and privilege, and neither of those things fill me with any kind of pride.

“I used to admire people who could hang with anything. Now the women I admire the most are women who never pretend to be different than they are. Women like that express their anger. They admit when they’re down. They don’t beat themselves up over their bad moods. They allow themselves to be grumpy sometimes. They grant themselves the right to be grouchy, or to say nothing, or to decline your offer without a lengthy explanation. Sometimes it seems like the rest of us are on a never-ending self-improvement conveyor belt. We’re running faster and faster, struggling to be our best selves, but every day we fail and we hate ourselves for it.”

— Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

Nothing baffled me more than being in an American public school and having 18 year old classmates who were allowed to enlist in the army but still had to ask to use the bathroom

ALSO we are encouraged to go to college and incur massive amounts of debt at around 18, but can’t be trusted to drink alcohol OR leave the classroom without permission?? Make it make sense

We really used to ask teachers if we could drink water.......what the fuck was that