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Imagine being a barber and tuning into your weird ass town’s radio for the news or the weather only to hear the radio host doxxing you for giving his crush a haircut

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Two seemingly contradictory beliefs that we actually must strive to hold simultaneously:

You don't owe anyone anything

Meaning: you do not have to make yourself suffer for the convenience of others

We owe each other everything

Meaning: we could not survive without each other and everything we do to help another is crucial to ensuring our own continued survival

You don't need to be a doormat, but also don't get comfortable slamming the door when you have the resources to extend a hand instead.

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did i do this right

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SUPERMAN SPOILERS AHEAD

I just saw the movie again for the second time and I’m deeply in love with the final shot of the film. It’s this beautiful grain video of baby Clark with his parents. It’s in a montage that Clark plays at the very end in the Fortress and it made me tear up to be very honest.

It’s a single shot of baby Clark being lifted into the air, and he strikes the Superman pose. He looks like he’s flying, and his arms are in the air like he’s already moving through the clouds.

And it just struck me, because my parents used to do the same. I have a video of my parents lifting me up into the air with a Superman shirt on. I’m sure many kids were lifted up into the air and they would yell out, “Superman”, just like I did.

Because he was a hero to us, he was always soaring into the clouds and we wanted to do the same. And that single shot is so singular to me because it’s a beautiful representation of Superman as a whole.

He’s a boy who dreamed of doing good, because he was raised by parents that taught him to do good. At his core, Superman is still that little kid who only flew because his parents taught him how to fly.

That shot is going to be stuck in my head for a long because it’s a reminder that Superman at his core has always been human. He’s still that same kid from Kansas who struck the same pose just like we did as kids. Kids that still do that same pose decades apart because they want to be good and do good. Just like Clark wanted to do.

It’s just surreal because I feel like for the first time in my life, I’m seeing a Superman that is the hero who taught us how to fly too.

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can a girl like me ever hope to become a true himbo

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the unstoppable force of my love for spicy food vs the immovable object of my sub-par spice tolerance

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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Everything is in the caption

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"Be strong enough to be gentle."

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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It's so important to me that Jonathan is so soft in the Superman movie. Jonathan is there asking Lois with worried eyes if their boy is going to be okay. Jonathan is there tearily telling Clark he's proud of him. Jonathan is there recognizing how upset Clark is and coaxing him to talk about it. Jonathan loudly loves his son. There is no guessing game, no question, no room for uncertainty.

And Clark reflects that every day as Superman.

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Hot take: I don't care if someone "contributes to society" or not. They are a person and still deserve human rights, food, and shelter.

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I saw a post that described the sentiment a very long time ago at this point, but it gives me hope.

I love humans. I love that it is built into our DNA to pattern-recognize faces. We are such social creatures that we look at a tree and find a face, we find a face in everything. We just actively look for others to love and be and celebrate life with. We need the community.

And like! We saw big vicious predator animals (cats and dogs) and went "fluffy! I am gonna keep you" and gave them food and, because they're also social creatures, they were like "yeah, okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

We look to the stars for more friends! For adventure, for hope.

Our brain is also so wired for pattern recognition that sometimes, among the white noise, it fills in voices, or music. Not necessarily in a psychosis way, but some people's brains hear silence and just fills it with music! We have such a tenancy for patterns that we just make something out of nothing.

Things are really scary all over the world rn. But sometimes I feel a bit better thinking about how much love still exists in the world. People are not born cruel. We can fix things. We will get better.