if I could, I'd let you see through me

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

I Have Softness For You

i have milk for you

Stop.

Cut the baby monkey in half

Dude bensons gonna abandon his faith when he sees what weve done

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

I also keep trying to explain that your brain also NEEDS to work hard. If you feel like you don't understand the material you are ingesting, you probably don't have enough experience/knowledge yet. You'll get there. I learned this personally through learning a language because you are forced to accept ambiguity, and that can feel uncomfortable and make your brain hurt sometimes. The great part is that once you push through, you find that it becomes easier to do and easier to understand. I brought this up because I think that not understanding anything at first and uncomfortability with media often go hand and hand too. People avoid reading about uncomfortable things, avoid watching uncomfortable things, avoid looking at uncomfortable things because they don't have the knowledge to understand and truly grasp it. The worst thing you can do is completely shut yourself off from some sort of knowledge, and yet I see people do it everyday. I often find myself enjoying media (especially media that makes me uncomfortable and sad) MORE, when I pick up on something that makes me overall have a completely different understanding of the media I'm consuming.

it's okay for me to throw stones my house is made of much sturdier glass

asking my therapist to rank me among her other patients