I'm doing pretty fine. I got all the stuff for Christmas sorted earlier this week so I can just relax and not worry about anything. Like the traffic. Oh my fucking God, the traffic.
Later today on Christmas Eve I'll go visit family and swap presents, and then I'll come back home, cook myself a nice dinner - I'm going to try this thing, and if I fuck it up I have some fish fingers in the freezer, hehehe - and just relax. I might go to midnight mass if I'm not too sleepy. A few days from now I'm visiting some friends (and helping one of them get familiar with WordPress, she has a pretty cool business idea and she wants to run her own site), and then on the 30th I'm going away about 100km from where I live to spend New Year's Eve with another group of friends.
Regarding this:
I’ve realized this week, perhaps, just how powerless we all are
We're not really powerless. It might seem like we are, we definitely have trouble effecting any real change, but... Consider this: Noone can dictate how you feel, it's the one thing you're always in control of. Like, I work for a multinational IT company, it's as faggy as it gets, but all the diversity lessons and pronoun people can't make me truly accept that a bearded dude who demands I refer to him as xe/xer is actually a real woman. They might even intimidate me into pretending to go with it - they haven't so far, but it might happen at some point - but they will never make me really accept it. And this kind of mindset applies to anything. You're the only one who calls the shots in your own head. Your mind is the ultimate fortress. Nothing else really matters.
I'm doing pretty fine. I got all the stuff for Christmas sorted earlier this week so I can just relax and not worry about anything. Like the traffic. Oh my fucking God, the traffic.
Later today on Christmas Eve I'll go visit family and swap presents, and then I'll come back home, cook myself a nice dinner - I'm going to try this thing, and if I fuck it up I have some fish fingers in the freezer, hehehe - and just relax. A few days from now I'm visiting some friends (and helping one of them get familiar with WordPress, she has a pretty cool business idea and she wants to run her own site), and then on the 30th I'm going away about 100km from where I live to spend New Year's Eve with another group of friends.
Regarding this:
I’ve realized this week, perhaps, just how powerless we all are
We're not really powerless. It might seem like we are, we definitely have trouble effecting any real change, but... Consider this: Noone can dictate how you feel, it's the one thing you're always in control of. Like, I work for a multinational IT company, it's as faggy as it gets, but all the diversity lessons and pronoun people can't make me truly accept that a bearded dude who demands I refer to him as xe/xer is actually a real woman. They might even intimidate me into pretending to go with it - they haven't so far, but it might happen at some point - but they will never make me really accept it. And this kind of mindset applies to anything. You're the only one who calls the shots in your own head. Your mind is the ultimate fortress. Nothing else really matters.