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I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.

Psychologists have talked about this extensively. In order to repair the damage caused by the stressors of life, your brain needs to have down time in which it is not being stressed. It needs to be able to turn off sometimes and turn down during others. That's how your brain processes stress enough to regulate cortisol production and let you get through whatever it is without being on-edge the entire time, all of the time.

Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

"Legacy points added/deducted" has permanently become a part of my vocabulary

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”