During these times, its great to reflect and see what’s truly important and a lot of the excess noise just stops when you’re literally left to yourself and your own devices.
Truth sounds more like truth and lies sound more like lies.
Don’t get me wrong, I have my own bullshit and ways I lie to myself everyday.
Our vision is so often coloured by the false images of modern life sold to us in an unequal exchange, our attention giving someone else a sense of worth, for our need to attain something more.
I’ve been silent for a very long time, but there’s room for a multitude of voices.
Those screaming loudest and fastest are generally so wrong the cringe is inexplicable.
We’re in a phase when call out and cancel culture is not only hurtful but counter productive.
It’s as counter productive as using Ivory’s “Gentle Cleanse” soap. So awhile ago feeling like I’m just so clever, I picked up the god knows how many litres of Ivory soap which was on sale (spoiler alert it’s always on sale).
I’ve heard of Ivory but was never into it, as I like many others grew up in a Dove household.
There is nothing gentle about it. I then saw my skin had a huge change, but I thought my Aveeno moisturizer changed formulas, and then had an out of shower routine of Aveeno, raw Shea butter, and baby oil gel to get some form of hydration back into my ashy greyed out flaking skin.
It sounds crazy but I figure, thus is life, and never realized it until I was talking to an aesthetician for laser hair removal, who noticed my skin was jacked up about it.
The moral of the story, a lot of things like people are not who they claim to be.
I’ve considered myself extremely passionate on some things but feeling like, maybe I’m not as strongly tied to the progression of various ideas, as they’ve been twisted and shape shifted into god knows what.
We’re letting people thrive on false equivalences and calling it allies ship, to the point you just want to sing closing time, and get them the fuck away from what ever cause they think they are fighting for.
They annoy me, simply put. The constant calling people out for things that don’t matter and confusing the parts that do. Yes, respect woman, leave space for others who are not like you and have lived different experiences but also, not everything is part of the battle.
There’s a lot of shit, I don’t take lightly and am hella unapologetic, like moisture to my skin, by any means necessary but what we’re not going to do, is pass off being progressive like an Ivory soap “Gentle” formula and mess it up for everyone involved.
