My family is... Not a healthy or happy one. I imagine most people know this by now. Yet, for reasons that I honestly do not understand, my parents are still together. Toxic, painful, continuously arguing, but still together...
The same cannot be said for extended family. Divorces everywhere. A number of children out of wedlock. Painful intergenerational relations on both side. Lots of "not talking". Lost of... Honestly, relationships that are far more negative than they are positive. As the black sheep "loser" of the family, I can't tell you how shit my relationship with nearly all my cousins is, right now. I could, I suppose, blame myself for that, but I really don't think it is that simple...
I actually don't think this is that uncommon, where I live. Sure, most people don't have family quite as toxic as my own, however divorce is utterly ubiquitous. Siblings not getting along is probably more common than not. And honestly, it feels like people almost expect families to behave like this - not communicating, not really talking, and generally... Not behaving like civilised adults. At least amongst the majority "white" population, in addition to the "blak" population (among whom it is most definitely even worse, lol), this is... All too common.
Thoughts? What's it like for you lot, where you live? Do you get along with your extended family? Are you close to them? I realise that I am almost certainly an outlier, where my family are fucking shit, in addition to being the "black sheep loser to end all black sheep losers", but... I'm just curious.
I like the idea that "family is the people you choose to include in it", but I am yet to find my... "One". I'm honestly yet to really find anyone. So I don't have that to have as my "core". I'm sure it's very different for those that do. Unfortunately, though, I'm not sure I will ever even find that...
So yeah. Pretty blackpilled about "family", at the moment, after mounting betrayals, I have to be honest. Would appreciate some... Alternative insights, if your life experience differs in that way.
I’m quite surprised this was still a thing in National Parks anywhere…
As shit as Aus has been, it hasn’t been enforced in places like that for literally months…
So I suppose it depends on when in the year you are both talking about, but still, seems pretty crazy to me that any sort of place like that is even attempting to enforce it, at this point, Navajo or otherwise…
To be fair, it was in 2021, when Biden was the one telling the Park Service what to do, before general public opinion had really heavily turned against the Covidians, and it was still far less enforced than you would expect when the Covidians were in charge. The places around the parks on private/state land was the most different of anywhere. Like I said, in S. Dakota, when we were in a small town near Mt. Rushmore to have dinner (elk burger, btw, Surprisingly good), no business anywhere in that town had a mask requirement. And while you occasionally saw people where masks, it was pretty rare.
Meanwhile, when we were in Estes Park at the base of the Rockies, almost everywhere had a mask requirement, and we even got some dirty looks just walking down the street without mask on.
But it makes total sense to me. Rural Dakota is going to be fairly conservative, and in general still has that "Fuck the Feds" attitude going on and still telling people to live their lives as they saw fit. Estes Park on the other hand is one of the most Left-wing parts of Colorado, and I cant tell you how many people I saw that looked like every stereotype of SJW's and Hippies you have ever heard of, and they were usually the ones getting in your face about the mask.
Ah, fair. I thought this was a more recent occurrence than it was…
Fairly similar to here, then.
And yeah, I’ve been to Boulder, lol. I get it. I’ve seen the Colorado you speak of, and smelled it too, ha…