disease-danger-darkness-silence:
do u ever remember all the horrible offensve things u said when u were like 15 and u literally feel ur soul detach and turn 2 dust
your fave is problematic: yourself
Basically, yeah. That’s kind of the point – you always have to look back on yourself and be mortified and resolve to be better.
Shit, the stuff I said just five YEARS ago (and I’m almost 33) makes me cringe like a motherfucker.
Burn in mortification. Rise from the ashes and be better. Lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your life.This is why purity culture doesn’t work!!! We’re all shit! We can all grow and do better!
you know you messed up if you DONT get embarassed by shit you said years ago.
the fact that you do means youve grown (as every human being should)“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn’t YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.” (x)
All of this! In the past decade my politics have changed, my religious beliefs have changed, the way I understand and interact in society has changed. I would hope someone who heard the words of my youth would compare them to who I am now and see someone who overcame the prejudices and limited understanding of my small social sphere of childhood and went out into the world and listened and learned and grew.
(Source: disastertourism)
