this is my problem

they ate fire in front of the white house 

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-Take food out of the vacuum-package before you eat it so it doesn’t crinkle. Zip-locs are good. Always have stashes of food and water near places you may be trapped for a while. In an emergency, water is more important than food.

-Know your escape routes, know your local shelters, know where you draw the line between ‘freeze’ and 'flight’ and don’t forget it.

-Know, at every moment, what you need and what resources are within your reach to get that.

-If giving an inch means they’ll take a mile, defend that inch with your life.

-Constant fear does not make you crazy if you are in a situation that is constantly threatening.

-Being literally or figuratively crazy does not mean you deserve it.

-( Being weak does not mean you deserve it. Being irritating does not mean you deserve it. Being less than what was expected of you does not mean you deserve it. )

-This hotline is good: https://www.1800runaway.org/

-Your anger is a weapon, too. Sharpen it.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.  

it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more. 

have a cookie.