Stranger Than Fiction

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

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WuKong said, "I won't study this one either! I won't study!"

The founder heard this, and with a shout he jumped off his platform, pointing his ruler at WuKong. He said, "This monkey! This type you won't learn, that type you won't learn, what else do you expect to do?"

Walking forward, he hit WuKong on the head three times. Then, with his hands behind his back, he walked into the room and closed the door, ignoring the mass as he left.

( Translation by me with occasional reference to Pleco 😋 )

😭😭😭 悟空 I need you to stop ragebaiting this poor man

Seriously though, I feel like when people talk about 悟空's backstory they sometimes forget this part in favour of the beating up the heavens part 🥹 we get to see eager and mischievous 悟空 without the terrifying abilities he comes with afterwards lol

It's choosing to be kind to people when you're in a bad mood, or when they're being annoying.

It's choosing to be kind to people who your friends don't like.

It's choosing to be kind to people who you don't particularly like.

It's choosing to be kind to people who you envy.

I'm not saying that you can't be a kind person and stand up for yourself, or tell someone to fuck off when they're doing something genuinely harmful, but there are a million petty reasons people use to justify treating people badly.

But that's exactly what kindness is. It's making the effort to treat people well when you don't feel like it.

If somebody's response to you rocking they shit because they were being racist, is them shooting you in the forehead, I need you to understand that that is somebody who was gonna do something like that anyway. You're not being murdered for the sake of giving in to violence. You're being murdered because that racist you punched is a murderer.

Some will say "You gave them what they wanted." I don't care what they wanted. What I want is to hurt you in the face when you're being racist towards me. I can very well get murdered by a racist person in everyday life for no good reason. This is a thing that happens to people all the time and I am not above it. I simply haven't had that type of interaction with a racist murderer yet. But in fact, in the era that I adopted this belief in responding with fists to the violence of racism, I was at my most radical and most likely chances to be harmed by a racist.

I decided that the chance of being shut down by violence and being remembered as someone who "deserved it" true story.. in hypothetical situations about being murdered during one of my things that I would do when I was younger, several people believed that if I were killed doong certain things that it would be because I was doing those things. Like challenging authorities and refusing to let people violate me, and so forth.

That really opened my eyes about a lot of things. When women who remind me of me are murdered and people who know me announce reasons why they "see why" these women are murdered, I drew the conclusions that if I should die standing up for myself, I would be blamed by enough people to fill a hashtag.

So, please believe me when I say that I know it's hard to stand up for yourself and even to fight. But nobody should be allowed to be racist against you without repercussions and people are protected in such a way that repercussions are generally not enough for the antiblackness visited upon you. You might not be able to affect them the way that they affect you. But one thing is certain. That swift lesson in watching their mouth will stick with them AND, if you're anything like me, it is a statement of self worth.