so this comic from subnormality is one of those things that litterally shaped how i fucking view the world:
that part at the end there-
the idea that you can just keep your mouth shut and do nothing and no one will bother you
but the thing that this comic, which i read in college, clicked into my brain is the fact that
no matter what
somehow you are going to piss someone off
and i don't mean in a "everyone hates you by default the second you enter the room" kinda way, i mean in the "you can be doing the most benign thing possible and someone who is having a really bad day to going to find you" way
you can go somewhere and just innocently lean against a wall and turns out you have severely fucked things up for someone in ways you could have never anticipated
what i'm getting at is that one comic panel make me really think about how you can do everything "correctly" in society, be polite, follow the rules and be considerate of others and your surroundings...
but
just replace "man" with " random person"
its not like it happens every hour of every day and that you have to be hypervigilant about it (cos i sure as hell ain't lol) but its just a fact of life you have to accept: yer gonna piss someone off somehow, despite it all, and you gotta be ready to roll with the punches
lord knows i done somthing as simple as sitting down next to a group of people at a music festival only to soon have them all start screaming at me because one of them can't find their damn wallet
