If you were a child and you were blamed for the trauma that you were put through then please remember it wasn’t your fault. It was never your fault, you were innocent.
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You have to recognize your capacity for harm. You cannot omit the harm you've done to others to remain "good." Anybody can be a bigot. Anyone can be an abuser. Anyone can harm anyone at any time even those who have been harmed themselves. The world is not made up of victims and villains only, this is life, not a Saturday morning cartoon and you are a human being who can or maybe even has hurt others and you HAVE to acknowledge that to learn to be better.
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Say it with me, kids, "I do not deserve this pain. I am in chronic pain due to forces outside of my control. I should not have to earn pain relief. I am good. I do not deserve to be shamed for my pain. It is not my fault."
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Bisan is calling for another global strike!
I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.
What a global strike would look like is:
calling in sick to work
purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can
putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!
For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!
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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.
Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!
Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.
You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).
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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.
They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.
Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!
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i just feel like “what if the trauma we go through is usually not noble but purposeless and terrible and the things we develop to keep us alive often change us for the worse” is one of the most important realizations you can come to in terms of like. empathizing with your fellow man and yet whenever that theme shows up in fiction so many people are immediately like its either PERFECT VICTIM OR IRREDEEMABLY EVIL. open the door and walk out of the dichotomy
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Time lost is time that won't come back
Don't lose your time explaining time and time again your version of the story. If the receptor is a tight-minded, adult-child that only cares about themselves and being seen as an eternal victim, it's no use. You'll end up feeling like the worst piece of shit there is.
They don't want your version, they want to twist your words and keep pressing buttons until you snap so they can play an even bigger victim so their enabler goes to rub their backs and then it'll be you against two (or even more).
You'll always be the bad guy for just explaining your feelings. They don't want to improve, they want to be pitied on while claiming they don't want pity, until the point when you don't know how to act because everything is wrong in their eyes.
That's a them problem, not yours.
I was asked several times to explain why I am strained from my own mother. I explained several times. I was accused of being a self-centered that only thought about myself and my feelings, ignoring my mother's who is suffering more than me, and more than anyone else, really. I was told I've never been that way, that I used to be so compassionate and empathetic and now I only care about myself. She makes me doubt myself and makes me feel bad for having something as healthy as boundaries and self-respect.
I am sick of being seen as an evil devil by my own parents. I am sick of being confused because out of all the people I've known, they're the only ones calling me such thing, while others, even ex friends, keeps assuring I was good and deserve the world. And I don't believe it. Because when your own parent, someone who is supposed to love unconditionally and purely, tells you there's something wrong with you and that you're a crazy gal whom nobody would ever want to be around, you believe it. You believe it because parents and family are your world when you're a kid, and when 'your' world doesn't fit with the actual, real world, where there are good and bad people, where grey is more prominent than black and white views, you don't know how to interact.
And it's frightening to think... was that what they wanted? To criple your social skills so you would always be dependant on them? It's a thought I don't wanna dwell into.
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Pretty much every country: Stopped tracking Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
99% of doctors: Claim Long Covid doesn’t exist. Tell patients they’re lazy, not disabled. Refuse to admit illnesses and deaths are due to damage done by Covid.
The 99% of the population who have their heads up their asses about Covid: If Covid is so dangerous why are hospitalizations down? Why aren’t people dying of it any more?
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