The thing about singing "La mer" to myself in the style of Charles Trenet is that while it doesn't change the external reality of my life, it makes me feel like I'm in a whimsical art house film that's sweeping festivals, and that counts at least for something.
Perhaps I wouldn't come across so much like the secret lovechild of Thomas Merton and Hildegard of Bingen if I weren't quite so silently immured. lolsob
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Your values aren't what you only do when it's convenient or when other people are watching.
Your values are what you do even when no one's watching, when it's hard, and when it's inconvenient or comes with a cost.
Also, your values are who you are.
Thinking about the year my mom got my dad a filing cabinet for Christmas (which he really wanted), but she wanted to surprise him...
..so she put the big Tupperware bowl on top, after the baking was all done, wrapped it in silver paper, and disguised it was R2D2.
He truly had no idea what it was until he opened it. 😂
I see way too many stories on my TL that go: "I went to this event and I was the only one masking and I felt unsafe. It was awful. Hahahaha."
I would like to see more stories that go: "I got into a situation, I assessed that it was unsafe, and therefore *I left*."
Years & years ago, I was at a big holiday party. A situation came up that was extremely unsafe for me. The people I had arrived with didn't care & I couldn't get a taxi home (due to super remote location).
I put on my coat and went outside by myself in the snow. For hours. While everyone else partied.
If you're at an event that is not safe, please extricate yourself, whatever it takes. I did it, you can, too.
Please keep the people in your life safer than mine have kept me.
Thinking, randomly, about how nice it would be if people put CW and/or sensitive media flags when posting photos of people unmasked indoors around others, and how at this time of your it would make my timeline non-stop CW-d posts.
I know it will never happen. But a girl can dream.
