neonheart

that family who runs the local foreign cuisine restaurant you enjoy, they struggled a lot getting a visa to stay in your country. they had to wait for years, learn an entirely different language to be taken even a little serious, even then their accents were mocked. could you do it? move to an entirely different place with no proper money on you, learn an entirely different language and wait 10 years to be considered a citizen, a person? have your accent and personhood mocked as you do? you'd have to do it, if you woke up one day and your purchase power had fell by %400, only to fall further, if you woke up and your street, your home was bombed to pieces. that family wanted a better life for their kids, and they regularly have to see news of little kids like their own getting murdered by people of your country. do you think that's what they prefer? do you not think they maybe would've preferred to live in their homeland where thats not a worry, where they won't struggle with language, where all their family and friends were, where their children should've been safe, where they'd be considered human? but they had no choice, because your country and their allies ruined their country to pieces, bombed it, assaulted it, raped it. and here they are now, their "better" chance at a safer life being serving in the country of their assaulters and offering you a piece of the home they had to leave. they consier themselves among the lucky ones who weren't killed trying to come here, who could at least get a visa to be considered semi human. you should be kind to them, but don't think your kindness makes up for the tragedy

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I am recommitting myself to feeling good in my body first, and to paying less attention to end goals and how things land externally