Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

the water in hotel showers will do things to the texture of your hair you didn’t even know were possible

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

i miss 2014 feminism so much. we were all so newly progressive. we just learned what the word intersectionality means. girls were starting movements at their schools to change the misogynist dress codes. now we’re stuck in the hellscape of “i’m just a girl” “girl math” “being good at the blue store so he’ll take me to the pink store” WHERE DID WE GO WRONGGG

oh and don’t forget that trans women are getting banned from women’s sports because apparently cis women are all born with glass bones and paper skin and will literally disintegrate and die if they try to play a sport against anyone that isn’t another cis woman because they inherently suck so bad at it💔 like ARE WE HEARING OURSELVES

I feel like one of the biggest life hacks I've found after my twenties is that gravitating towards people who define themselves by what they love and are rather than what they oppose or aren't tends to lead to people who are more generally nice to be around