hi as the holiday season is going to start soon please remember two things:
- don’t donate to the salvation army because it is a racist, homophobic, all around shitty charity
- don’t yell at the salvation army bell ringers just because they volunteered to work for this shitty charity. it’s likely that they don’t actually know what they’re promoting and you yelling at someone when they believe they’re honestly doing a good deed is going to help no one.
Both of these things are good advice
Explaining to the people that you enter the store with why you don’t donate to the Salvation Army, possibly within earshot of the bell ringers? Perfectly acceptable.
Actively haranguing bell ringers? Dick move.
your parents’ disapproval doesn’t make you a bad person. just so you know.
i know that kind of rejection is incredibly painful, but it doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.
(via seanp0donnell)
There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don’t romanticize life like you can’t survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise.
- Emery Allen (via perrfectly)
(via kushandwizdom)
