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Being active on the internet is oppressive. You have to be a paragon of virtue or else whatever your current flaws are will haunt you forever, in the form of people who don't understand the concept of change and personal growth, hating on an old version of you. We *have* to get over that impulse. *All* of our pasts are laid bare, now. If there's no dirt to dig up on you, you are an antisocial, conniving, manipulative liar and way more scary than people who used the n-word once before it got, like, SUPER bad to say
Let The Truth Speak, by Earthside. It's an album on Bandcamp. I'm having trouble linking to it, but look it up! If you like good instrumental music (with lyrics sometimes). It's great for putting on in the background while you work. Their first album got me through some despairing drives to my terrible job. Probably kept me from swerving into a tree. And also reminded me that there's so much potential in life. I think "Mob Mentality" was a factor in how I gathered the courage to quit. Give that a listen, too, when you've got the time. It's beautiful and singular and apt. Made me think about where and when I would die, and how I didn't want it to be the place I was in at the time. I'll always have the songs I listened to on the way to work and back... and the stuff in between can burn. No one ever enriched their life by being a human machine. Sure, there were nice moments in the downtime, but I'd give them all up to have used those years for something meaningful. My best energy... used
I slowly stole everyone's novelty Christmas light necklaces over the course of the evening festivities. I could feel the holiday spirit burgeoning in my veins with each tacky accessory I slung around my neck like a trophy. The quickening is at hand! There can be only one! Seriously though it was a good time. Good food, good gifts, good movies. Hope y'all are able to be with loved ones and enjoy this defiant celebration in the face of the coming Winter.
