They are fiercely protective. You’ve always known them as an exceptionally nice person but you’ve seen them lash out at someone who insulted a person they love — and it was a force to be reckoned with. Everyone knows not to mess with their loved ones.
It’s pretty simple (but seldomly practiced): if you want to be excited, do things that excite you and stop doing things that don’t excite you.
What is the incentive to be offended? That is, what does a person gain from it?
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.'”
What I am proposing is that we focus less on chasing equality and instead ask ourselves what we really want, listen for the answer and then be prepared to sacrifice what we care less about in order to get it.
I just want to have fun with my friends, that is enough.
I’m not made of porcelain and I’m not going to break if you use the wrong words or reveal yourself to be a terrible person.
A girl I was friends with in college won a local pageant for the Miss America organization. Crazy brat wore her crown out in public for the next week.
It’s like asking an athlete to train for the Olympics without going through the pain and discomfort of exercising.
10. You are never “stuck.” You are not stuck in a job, or in a marriage, or in any other shitty situation. You control your life.