✿ 桜 が 咲 く よ 。。。♡

If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Today a customer at self-checkout was having trouble with her avocadoes and I came over and told her the machine needed her to input how many she had because we charge avocadoes by amount and not by weight. And this woman turned to me, angrier than a woman just buying some produce at 7 am should be and said “I SHOULDN’T BE EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE”. Like I didn’t even have anything to say in response to that, I just sort of apologized and looked in her damn bag and typed in the amount for her.