people want doing the right thing to be like pulling the correct lever at the correct time but actually usually doing the right thing is more like holding a moderate weight at arm’s length continuously for seventeen years
every so often since like, March, this post will spike in popularity, and I’ll just suddenly know that a few thousand people somewhere are Going Through It for reasons I cannot know in any detail, like I’m some small node in our collective lymbic system that doesn’t actually know what to do with the signals it’s given. it’s interesting.
