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“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

“Why are you so lazy?”

But you’re not lazy. Lazy is when you shrug things off because you can’t summon up the give-a-damn. When you’re curled up tight on your chair, at your desk, alone and grey and desperately wishing that you had your life in order, that you did all those things that you had to do, that it didn’t feel like breaking rocks just to feed and clothe yourself and get some sleep, that’s not lazy.

People don’t understand. You tell them “It’s Hard.” They tell you, “No it isn’t. You’re just lazy.”

You start to wonder if they’re right. Is breaking those rocks easy for everyone else? Are they that much stronger than you? They don’t look like they’re struggling. “Just try harder,” they say. But you’re trying. It’s not working. Breaking boulders in your path until you’re spent isn’t lazy, and you do it day after day.

You’re not lazy. Most people don’t have those rocks to break.They don’t even know what it’s like to have to break rocks to get things done. They don’t understand how hard you have to work, and how hopeless you feel, when you try and fail to do what they do easily. Things hard harder for you, they really are. And if those people had to deal with your problems they wouldn’t be doing any better.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak. You’re fighting hard. I guess I just want you to know that I know that.”

It's Widdershins Wednesday! Like trying to usher a butterfly out of the door.

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I think if filmmakers are going to spend many, many millions of dollars making a film, there should at least be a whole ass ship to show for it. No AI. No green screen. Just build a fucking ship and get hundreds of grubby men to run around on it, shouting and running each other through with swords.

While two idiots who love each other play duets.

🐈‍⬛ Cat lovers(&all animal lovers) around the world, please support 🐾˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

Hello, animal lovers♡ I'm Aya, a guardian of 6 cats.

Let me share the problem about cats occuring in Japan.

According to Animal Acution Fund (公益財団法人どうぶつ基金), currently, in Japan, the Ministry of the Environment is trying to designate Ieneko (domestic cats and stray cats in the neighborhood) as "alien species to promote control".

Despite the lack of evidence that cats are causing the decline of rare native species, the government is trying to easily kill cats under the pretext of a World Heritage Site (especially in Okinawa and Amami).

The target includes not only stray cats, but also TNR cats and cats that go outside.

Even the cats kept entirely indoors, it become subject to extermination if they escape outside.

To begin with, cats are animals that cannot be designated as "Specified Invasive Alien Species."

Ieneko(domestic cat) is an animal that has lived with people in Japan for 2,000 years.

The Ministry of the Environment itself explains that the measures against alien species are mainly "living things brought in after 1868", so this does not apply to cats.

It is wrong thing animals that have lived with humans for 2000 years as targets for extermination.

Protecting rare native species is important, but the lives of cats are just as precious.

It should be carried out through this humanitarian and scientific method, not by taking lives.

It is wrong to blame specific animals for the ecosystems and nature that humans have destroyed.

There are no borders for cat (&animal) lovers. Please sign and convey your voice against it.

Thank you for your kindness to read this long post.

♡ from Tokyo, Aya & 6 ex stray cats.

Wisteria tunnels at KawachiWisteriaGarden, Kitakyushu, Japan河内藤園