[thesentdowngirl-deactivated2023]

All time

[slowlikehoney1996]

t shirt that says “i used to be worse”

[mollyjames]

Sometimes I think about how many people I met in food service who smoke. I think about growing up in an upper-middle class neighborhood, and how it was drilled into me that smoking is addictive and bad for your health. I think most people, in America at least, are well aware of that. Whenever I would decline a cigarette, on the rare occasion it was offered, saying I dont smoke the reply is always "good, don't start."

I think about the long shifts, working on your feet all day, with breaks scheduled down to the minute. Every second of your day controlled by the clock, regardless of how tired you might be. However, in food service, there is one exception. The smoke break. Most managers respect the smoke break. The old school ones do, at least. The newer crop less so. Food service is fast paced, highly stressful work, and nicotine, in addition to all of its addictive and damaging properties, is a relaxant. If a burger flipper or barista says they need to step outside for a smoke, you let them do it, and you dont begrudge them for it.

It's such a strange bit of kindness. One that we know is terribly harmful in many respects, but performed anyway. I think about all of the interconnected systems, of health, of education, of exploitation, that leads a person to knowingly trade in years of their life for five minutes of peace. I wonder how many people in my upper middle class neighborhood would propose simply banning the smoke breaks. I wonder how many people I know would just break.

[peenalize]

stop saying empathy when you really mean compassion. im gettin sick of saying it

[peenalize]

empathy is a subconscious reaction that is possible to be learned but for the most part someone has no control over it. the amount of it is also often tied to disorders. compassion is the CHOICE to be kind and to help people. we dont “need more empathy!” what we need is more compassion. something you’re not doing a very great job at demonstrating. empathy isnt inherently good and having it doesnt make you a good person. yall need to get over that mindset and accept that bad people can have empathy too.

[testosteronefag]

[labeatz]

You deserve people in your life who think you are a big deal. No competition, no backhanded comments, no jealously, no comparison, no hate just simply “I love you and there is nobody like you and there will only ever be one of you” type energy

[thecoolradcoffin]

hope this explains it

[legalizeact]

[michaelblick-deactivated-deacti]

The titties b in the seatbelt like %

[espresomartini]

listening to the same music i used to listen when i was 14-15 is something else i'm still her i'm nothing like her anymore she knew everything she knew nothing she was so right she was so wrong

[lilbunnnii]

how’s the arch 👀

[lofeel]

[ryan-sometimes]

Paramore was right. Hard times

[erezkaan]

[xphaiea-deactivated20160412]

1920’s Czech glass charm 

[meizhun]

I don’t know how to tell you, I don’t

[aqua-regia009]

Head of Medusa (1617-1618) by Peter Paul Rubens