Images: Adapted from Shel Silverstein’s ‘The Giving Tree’
There is an apple tree. It is bent over so one side is lower.
Panel 1: Inequality (one child gets an apple, the other doesn’t)
Panel 2: Equality (both children get ladders to reach the apples, but one still cannot reach because his side is too high)
Panel 3: Equity (One child gets a slightly taller ladder so he can reach the apples on his side)
Panel 4: Justice (The tree is pulled by cables on one side, and pushed by boards on the other, to make the tree level and even on both sides, so both children can easily access it)
Ok like I’m here for the whole “if it doesn’t make you happy, don’t do it” movement but like, be smart, yeah? Don’t just quit your job out of the blue, even if it is soul sucking, get another job first. Don’t just kick your roommate out because you aren’t getting along, talk to them first. And don’t say absolutely everything that pops into your mind, because discretion will save your ass on occasion. I’m not saying you can’t live authentically, but be smart.
And while we’re at it, rudeness and honesty are not the same thing. “I’m just being honest” is not an excuse to be nasty to someone for no reason, and “that’s just how I am” is not an excuse not to change your behavior.
im all for the riots and protests and stuff, acab and blm, but like if a person needs to focus on something else for a change and recharge their mental battery and de-stress, don’t hate on them or call them derogatory things or send nasty messages just bc the need to take a step back for a moment or two
it’s ironically ableist to scream at people for having to take care of their own mental health first and foremost before they take action or do anything, even if its just reblogging a post. You can not “be the change you want to see” if you’re in despair and unable to remotely think properly and are not actively taking the occasional break from all of this. You need to take care of yourself first before you take care of anyone else
So if you need to take a step back and focus on yourself for once and de-stress and play a video game, do not feel guilty. Do not feel guilty because you see a post saying “reblog this or you’re disgusting” and choose not to rb it. Do not feel guilty for resting and recovering. Support your comrades instead of demeaning them or guilting them.
Check yourself and your actions. Do not perpetuate guilt tripping and ableist agendas by screaming at people who need a break from the chaos in the world before they get back up. Let them take a break and recharge. Ableism is still ableism.
Please know when someone tells you they’re feeling ignored there’s at least one tangible example they can point to that justifies their concern and don’t just brush them off as being “insecure”. People don’t just feel rejected out of nowhere. Reasons build up into a recurring theme of feeling like you aren’t wanted. Acknowledge why someone might feel this way.
REBLOGGING THIS BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS! DOCUMENTARIES LIE ALL THE FUCKING TIME, AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS FACT CHECK EVERYTHING A DOCUMENTARY SAYS! Most documentaries have some sort of agenda they’re trying to push, and will twist the truth or outright LIE to push that agenda.
Supersize Me was disproven by several nutritionists yet still shown in school classrooms, Black Fish made all sorts of false claims about the trainers of Seaworld and Orcas in general and was so bad even animal rights activists were calling them out on their false info, there was this shitty documentary claiming Christianity stole all their mythos from Ancient Egypt only to be disproven by ACTUAL EGYPTOLOGISTS, WHO REVEALED HALF THE “EGYPTIAN MYTHS” MENTIONED IN THE FILM WERE FAKE, and so much more!
The number of people who automatically believe everything they saw in a documentary just because it was a documentary is ridiculous and DANGEROUS.
Bruh, if you don’t think that having historically significant events well documented from multiple perspectives is a good thing, then idk what the hell u doin.
Besides, like, that is literally a Giant Monster Rampaging Through The Town. What the fuck is the everyday person gonna do other than Tweet/Instagram/Post about it going “It’s the apocalypse you guys! Eyyyy lmao #apocalypse #deathrising #nofilter”?
And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’
reblogging for this perfection: ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’
I personally would be trying to give the Great One flowers and chocolate, but I don’t fault others for watching to get a picture of something so glorious and terrible. 😍
These are photos taken by Robert Landsburg of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. He realized he would never get to safety in time, so he kept taking pictures of the ash cloud for as long as possible. Then he put the camera securely in his bag and lay down on top of it to protect it before being engulfed in the pyroclastic flow. When they found his body, the recovered the pictures were invaluable to geologists because no one had ever been able to document an eruption that close up before.
There are many more such photographs of unimaginable perspectives taken moments before death, only because of the compelling human desire to assert that we were here, this happened, this was real. It’s the most human desire there is – to reach out across time and space to connect with our fellow beings until our last breath.
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