Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.
Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.
Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!
I like this a lot better than those posts that are just “being good is easy just do it”. I’m basically good; that doesn’t mean it’s easy for me, and the fact it’s hard for me doesn’t change that.
I think like the most traumatizing thing abou growing up for me was like…getting my period for the first time and having my mom say “you’re a woman now” because I knew like…as a girl I could run and play sports (even tho I hated sports lol) and go on adventures and my mind was still more or less a neutral mind but I knew none of those things existed for a woman because I had never seen a depiction of a woman who behaved the way girls got to and wasn’t beautiful. Like being a woman means you have to force your mind inside your body and going from the boundless consciousness of girlhood which was for me a world of cruelty and directness and intent into womanhood-where you are never intelligent or an athlete or someone whose mind exists as a means of will and desire but is always a woman and only a woman-is of course a kind of death
“[T]he interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them,” for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.” — Paulo Freire
If you had five billion you could hop from job to job, calling entitled customers idiots all across your city, putting the fear of You into every shithead in town until people become afraid to be rude to servers and cashiers, lest you emerge from the back room like some kind of manners-enforcing specter
