Rule I'm Feeling Better

Rule I'm feeling better

artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

When you finally find out about your ADHD.

nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

Coolest thing about lord of the rings? The king of horses shows up. It appears he is no different from all other horses

Here's the thing

You don't have to like everyone. Honestly, you don't have to like anyone. You can sit at home alone with your eight cats and your computer and just be content in that.

You don't have to be nice. You don't have to be altruistic. You don't have to be a social justice warrior.

But you have to be kind.

Kindness, I believe, is the most important thing, and it's also one of the hardest.

Kindness and niceness are two very different things. You can be nice without being kind, and you can be kind without being nice. I'll show you with an example.

You have a flat tire on the side of the road, and your phone is dead. You ask a passerby for help.

A person who is nice, but not kind, will tell you that they wish they could help, they really do, but they can't. For whatever reason. On a perfect day, when there are no other things going on, maybe they would be able to help, but they can't. They're so sorry, and they feel for you.

A person who is kind, but not nice, asks you what you were thinking, leaving the house without a fully charged phone, and then offers to call a tow truck for you. They might grumble, they might even not be the most pleasant person to be around, but they help.

Because that is what kindness is. And that is the difference. A nice person will lie about bad news, and a kind person will do what they can to soften the blow. Niceness is rose-tinted glasses. Kindness is a helping hand when a child scrapes their knee.

Online, there seems to be this obsession with goodness. You're a good person because you do this or you don't do this. If you think these thoughts or consume this media, you're not a good person, and that's the worst thing there is.

Maybe I don't know what "goodness" is, but I know that I will never be good by those standards.

That's fine. I'd rather be kind.