Well my week has been exciting so far.
Time: “She knows action on climate change won’t happen instantly, but she’s prepared to dedicate years to this cause, even if life in the public eye has its drawbacks.
“When I grow up, I want to be able to look back and say that I did everything I could,” she says. “I think that more people should feel like that.””
“To dare in life is to make yourself vulnerable to the possibility of failure. Most of us don’t welcome failure. So instead we avoid taking risks. We compromise, taking cold comfort in the assumption that we’ve removed the possibility of failure as we buckle up in the passenger seat and let life take the wheel. The truth is, there’s no avoiding failure. While failure may never feel good, failure in a life of compromise can be twice as devastating.”
— Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method (via kxowledge)
Circling the Sun (larger)
Let me tell you what happens when abortion becomes illegal.
A mother is forced to go through with a pregnancy that she never wanted. She is constantly shamed and cussed at by society and her own family for ever wanting an abortion. This child once born is often used as a pawn against her. She is manipulated into staying in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship/marriage, all for the benefit of the baby. She is forced to throw away all of her goals, dreams and has to care for her newborn despite her personal trauma.
As the child gets older, it starts to understand. Mommy isin’t crying because she fell over, she hates her life. Mom isin’t being a bitch because she only cares about her self, she over worries about you in fear of you repeating her mistakes that she never told you about. Mom was never lying to you, she was protecting you from the ugly truth. The truth that was inevitable to come out.
The truth that makes you realise how unwanted you were. How you were only needed as a tool of manipulation, a litteral weapon against your own mother. The realisation of how your single existence ruined the life of the person you love the most. Thoughts that mess you up mentally and make you hate yourself.
And honestly? I cannot wish that life upon my worst of enemies. I would gladly give up my life so my mother could have had hers.
Stop telling women what to do with their bodies when it is already the hardest decision she will ever have to make.
~ sincerely, the child of a forced pregnancy.
Small and angry.PhD student. Mathematics. Slow person. Side blog, follow with @talrg.
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