Broke: Solving bullying means getting kids friends! Because, you know, bullies like to pick on kids that are alone. We need to support initiatives like “Say Hello Day”! Encourage kids to join clubs and make friends! Wait, there are some kids who don’t want friends? Huh? I didn’t know they existed. Well, at some point it becomes their fault they’re getting picked on, right?
Woke: EVERY kid deserves a safe and supportive environment free of bullying, regardless of whether they do or don’t want friends, and we need to radically change the culture of our schools and society if we’re going to stop bullying. “Getting kids friends” won’t solve the problem.
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In the old commonplace version of rjk events where rk never broke up and Jamie later joins the relationship (so rk still remain publicly facing whilst rjk is kept secret, at least in the beginning) I love to imagine Jamie sets his phone background to a picture like that brett-juno hand holding one after some event rk attended, because he can't get over how good they both look and how sexy they are, and then in the locker room the next day the boys all see it and are like "??? damn bro you really ship them, huh." And Jamie is just like 🥰😘 Yeah I do 😍☺️
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i really cannot emphasize enough how important it is to get yourself out of situations that make your day-to-day life miserable. quitters do win. quitters win when they leave behind something that's bringing them down and preventing them from living a happy, healthy life and go after what they really want.
personally, i know it was 100% necessary for me to quit my first job. it would not have been worth it to hold out any longer for more experience or more money or in the hopes that things would improve. it wasn't even worth it to stay as long as i did. i still carry so much negativity with me from that experience. the toxic bureaucracy is still the framework for how i imagine scenarios will go at work currently, three years later. i brace myself to be lectured at. i brace myself to be accused of things i didn't do or intentions i didn't have. it's so sad because that's not the type of environment i'm in at all right now. we have such great teamwork where i am and the leadership is very supportive. people don't look around to see who they can cast blame on, they just aim to get things done. and like... i know that, but because of the toxic experience i had before, it's so hard for me to internalize. i still haven't put it all behind me.
that's why i tell people to just get out when they're unhappy. don't stay because you feel like you have to prove something... don't stay because at one time it was what you wanted... don't stay so you don't disappoint someone else... don't tell yourself it will get better. if it feels like a dark cloud hanging over every single day of your life, it won't simply get better one day, the only solution is to get out.
"if it costs you your peace, it's too expensive." if there's anything in your life right now that you think of immediately when you read that quote, then something's wrong and you need to make a change.
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If you don't do X you're a bad person!
If you enjoy X while X is happening, you're a terrible person!
If you're enjoying anything while someone has it worse than you you're a horrible person!
Aren't you all exhausted?
You can just enjoy things. Full stop.
There are no requirements to enjoying something.
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