That stirring shit up/trolling, just to get people worked up, was funny. Saying bullshit you don’t actually believe at your core because you think it’s entertaining to piss people off and be eDgY
That people were inherently good, and that people who do bad could change if you just loved them enough.
Not everyone is bad, but there are a wide margin of people who do bad for bad’s sake. Even people you think are close friends and family members can and often do carry knives for you. Never get comfortable.
I didn’t grasp the difference between “feeling depressed” and, you know… Genuine clinical chemical imbalance
Fast forward to a few diagnosis later and learning that my life long emotional habits weren’t simply a response to my life and the world around me, but was actually my brain not fucking working properly
Fighter jet pilots, military cool, insert hyper nationalism! Grown up: Unfortunately, I have read about pretty terrible reality. I am a patriot but I just really really uncomfortable how the bullies in classroom back then are the leader of the religious plus military institutes. They speak different but the methods are the same. Sorry, that got dark. So cheers 😀
So many commenters here saying the belief that people are inherently good, and it is funny because my trajectory has been the opposite.
I used to be one of those misanthropic, “humanity sucks” edgelord teenagers who would fit right in with most of Reddit talking about how everyone is inherently evil and the planet is overpopulated.
The vast, vast majority of people are good at heart. Most of us have empathy. Most of us want to do right. But centuries of capitalism and colonialism have poisoned us, especially (ironically) in the imperial core where the only society we’ve been able to witness is one that not only accepts but thrives on exploitation, division, and suffering.
People are not the problem. Systems are. Inertia is hard to overcome but I do think if we ever fully dismantle these two specific cultural phenomena, more of us would realize we never hated our fellow human beings – we hate the world we are forced to share with them.
That I was supposed to be married and pregnant with at Least my first child by the age of 15, and not doing so meant I had failed at life and was completely worthless.
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that I don’t owe my parents anything.
That people are always honest
That I had a bad childhood / shit parents.
Truth is I was undiagnosed autistic, and they did their best.
Michael Jackson could save the world 🤣
I’ll make a comic or cartoon enjoyed by many
That people are inherently good.
No, lots of people are irredeemable fuckwits who do not deserve a second of my energy.
That the popular people had the best life’s
Probably, God.
That all Christian’s and the religion as a whole were good.
College is where everyone’s mature and properly adult
That stirring shit up/trolling, just to get people worked up, was funny. Saying bullshit you don’t actually believe at your core because you think it’s entertaining to piss people off and be eDgY
It’s all desperate attention seeking horseshit
That people were inherently good, and that people who do bad could change if you just loved them enough.
Not everyone is bad, but there are a wide margin of people who do bad for bad’s sake. Even people you think are close friends and family members can and often do carry knives for you. Never get comfortable.
That women are the prize.
Now I know they’re nothing but a liability
That capitalism can be reformed and that we live in a somewhat democratic system.
Bush Did 9/11
That my brain was fully finished, that I knew a lot on life, myself, and how to handle it. I also believed that work was better than school
That the world was becoming a better place.
That white lighters are bad luck?
Effort gets rewarded. Now I know effort gets punished with more work but same pay
That we have a decent future. Now I’m not even sure I’ll survive the next few years.
That church people were good.
Oh boy was I in for an angry awakening
That i could get straight A’s through college, how hard could it be
it’s really hard HELP
That I can be anything I want.
That Depression was just “feeling sad about shit”
I didn’t grasp the difference between “feeling depressed” and, you know… Genuine clinical chemical imbalance
Fast forward to a few diagnosis later and learning that my life long emotional habits weren’t simply a response to my life and the world around me, but was actually my brain not fucking working properly
I have more money when I started a work, the reality is more responsible that I need to do
I used to think everyone is genuinely nice with no hidden agendas and that made me trust everyone easily.
That I had it all figured out at that point.
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Fighter jet pilots, military cool, insert hyper nationalism! Grown up: Unfortunately, I have read about pretty terrible reality. I am a patriot but I just really really uncomfortable how the bullies in classroom back then are the leader of the religious plus military institutes. They speak different but the methods are the same. Sorry, that got dark. So cheers 😀
That David Copperfield actually walked through the great wall of China
That I could be and do anything I wanted in life. Life has taught me that I am only allowed to be and do what life allows.
That science, knowledge, facts and truth were worthwhile. And they are meaningful to most people.
So many commenters here saying the belief that people are inherently good, and it is funny because my trajectory has been the opposite.
I used to be one of those misanthropic, “humanity sucks” edgelord teenagers who would fit right in with most of Reddit talking about how everyone is inherently evil and the planet is overpopulated.
The vast, vast majority of people are good at heart. Most of us have empathy. Most of us want to do right. But centuries of capitalism and colonialism have poisoned us, especially (ironically) in the imperial core where the only society we’ve been able to witness is one that not only accepts but thrives on exploitation, division, and suffering.
People are not the problem. Systems are. Inertia is hard to overcome but I do think if we ever fully dismantle these two specific cultural phenomena, more of us would realize we never hated our fellow human beings – we hate the world we are forced to share with them.
I was raised by old people who never talked about sex. I was convinced baby’s come out of your urethra. I was terrified, vowed to never have a child.
The government runs with the intentions of representing and uplifting the majority of its country’s population.
That my childhood was bad but not terrible.
Turns out it was way worse than I thought until I started talking to others.
Acne stops when you’re 18.
That turning a cigarette upside down was good luck
That rationality would naturally prevail in the free marketplace of ideas.
That I was supposed to be married and pregnant with at Least my first child by the age of 15, and not doing so meant I had failed at life and was completely worthless.
So glad I got out of there alive. 😓
I was invincible.
Republicans are good people that I just disagree with.