Elisabeth Wheatley

The way modern culture rejects the idea of having duties to one another makes the skin crawl.

I think people often confuse the differences between responsible for and responsible to. And I think people have gotten really confused on what having boundaries actually means. Boundaries are good and important. Boundaries mean we're not responsible for other people's choices or behavior. Boundaries do not mean we don't have responsibilities to each other. We have a lot of responsibilities to other people. To treat them with kindness and respect, to show up for our jobs, to take care of our kids, to follow through on commitments. We have all kinds of responsibilities to each other. And we absolutely should stop pretending that self care, boundaries, etc means that we don't.

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

girl it’s just a 3 day trip, you do not need to bring your terracotta warriors 🙄