okay so i know the ending of stranger things sucked for a lot of people, but the sheer amount of theories and bylers and kind words i’ve seen around- especially with conformitygate- have motivated me. more than a show’s ending ever could. tumblr and the rest of the internet have united under the same front; “conformity is killing the kids”, “crazy together”, etc etc. i think it’s beautiful.
it’s motivating me to be myself. mike’s ending is motivating me to never conform. el’s ending is motivating me to surround myself with people who love and care about me and always make me feel like i belong. will’s ending is motivating me to never settle; to communicate well with the people around me to get what i want. i love these kids. i aspire to be better than them, to give myself a better ending than they got.
never settle. never give up. never conform. always be yourself, always be explosive, and always persue what you know is right for you, despite what anyone else says.
this comformitygate community has motivated me to start persuing and re-starting things that i gave up on years ago. it’s motivated me to be myself in public without caring about what anyone thinks because maybe, just maybe, people are looking at me with relief because they see that it’s okay to be weird. fuck conformity, fuck settling. i love you all