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tony hawk's moving castle

@doctorrrr

jasper ร— bitch/bastard ร— ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’– ye olde 20 something haver of adhd, reblogger of posts

Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like โ€œIf you donโ€™t like it, you can just move to a blue state.โ€

And now theyโ€™re mad the guy is doing just that?

You canโ€™t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.

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My dad was raised buddhist and when I watched bill and Ted with him he was like โ€œthese guys are unironically the most enlightened people on the planet. They are leaving Samsara for sureโ€ and that man has never been more right about anything ever

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as a kid i had one of those โ€œthereโ€™s a monster under my bedโ€ moments except real.

every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like โ€œheh okay kiddo letโ€™s check it out :) ah see? thereโ€™s nothing here :)โ€ and left.

until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.

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imagine your kid being like โ€œdaddy thereโ€™s a demon in my closetโ€ and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and thereโ€™s a demon in the closet

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WHAT

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one day I woke up and realised all the waiting and yearning was actually me living my life and itโ€™s happening right now and itโ€™s still good even if itโ€™s not perfect and there is no moment when all your dreams get fulfilled and everything makes sense. likeโ€ฆ this is it. this is life. youโ€™ll waste away your youth waiting for some imagined future if you donโ€™t love life for what it is now and make the most of it

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Comic by @shhhitsfine

lovely story from a friend today.

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because "don't burden others; be independent" is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here's the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.