GG and writing the layers community - this prompt really got me going. Pasting the response here <3
“Why do we avoid going against the grain? We fear friction. We don’t know if it will be worth the burn.”
“Self-discovery is the first process or breaking away from a life of conformity.”
I avoid looking at myself as “abnormal.” Have I been subconsciously wanting to believe that everyone, like me, dedicates their life to ensuring our children and children’s children and grand-children’s grandchildren can swim in our local watersheds and oceans and enjoy our nourishing fresh water?
Even still, I avoid articulating “this grain” that I go against. I think, I feel, I know that the world I go against TAKES UP SO MUCH SPACE IN OUR MEDIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE. Consumerism plagues our tv shows, our movies, our streaming services…
As I write this out, I think, I feel, I know that consumerism on its own is not the plague - it is consumerism plagued by global slavery, incarceration and wealthy people refusing to clean up after themselves!!
Seriously, we all learned to clean up our messes, but Chevron, Shell, random business that make paper, plastics, spew toxins and make our drinking water sick. Could they have easily just cleaned up after themselves?
This gets me to why I refrain from talking about “the grain” I go against - because the behavior to spew trash, toxins, shit, etc. into clean drinking water or a clean place reminds me of training my toddler to clean-up after herself. And for fuck’s safe these grown ass non-gender specific people leading businesses that pollute are NOT my children and I am choosing healthy boundaries and parenting those children around me…
Perhaps, I’ll grow from my analysis and/or, perhaps, I will teach their children in their college educations.
GG and writing the layers community - this prompt really got me going. Pasting the response here <3
“Why do we avoid going against the grain? We fear friction. We don’t know if it will be worth the burn.”
“Self-discovery is the first process or breaking away from a life of conformity.”
I avoid looking at myself as “abnormal.” Have I been subconsciously wanting to believe that everyone, like me, dedicates their life to ensuring our children and children’s children and grand-children’s grandchildren can swim in our local watersheds and oceans and enjoy our nourishing fresh water?
Even still, I avoid articulating “this grain” that I go against. I think, I feel, I know that the world I go against TAKES UP SO MUCH SPACE IN OUR MEDIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE. Consumerism plagues our tv shows, our movies, our streaming services…
As I write this out, I think, I feel, I know that consumerism on its own is not the plague - it is consumerism plagued by global slavery, incarceration and wealthy people refusing to clean up after themselves!!
Seriously, we all learned to clean up our messes, but Chevron, Shell, random business that make paper, plastics, spew toxins and make our drinking water sick. Could they have easily just cleaned up after themselves?
This gets me to why I refrain from talking about “the grain” I go against - because the behavior to spew trash, toxins, shit, etc. into clean drinking water or a clean place reminds me of training my toddler to clean-up after herself. And for fuck’s safe these grown ass non-gender specific people leading businesses that pollute are NOT my children and I am choosing healthy boundaries and parenting those children around me…
Perhaps, I’ll grow from my analysis and/or, perhaps, I will teach their children in their college educations.