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You Choose Your People
You get to choose who you give pieces of your head, heart, and soul to.
There isn’t a damned thing you can do about “them.”
Them? Those people. The ones making all the surreal, ludicrous choices. Those people who deny science, believe lies, and accept things as true that aren’t. You can’t do anything about them.
This is deeply disheartening. On the one hand, you probably want to believe that people are inherently good. I know that I do. But, on the other hand, you keep being shown proof that people are selfish, willfully ignorant, and easily misled.
There’s a great line in the movie Men in Black that magnificently accounts for this.
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
The collective consciousness of the world is fear-based. This is why people become dumb, panicky, dangerous animals the moment shit goes down or things go off the rails.
When you are fed a constant diet of fear, scarcity, insufficiency, and other false narratives about what the status quo must be, you can start to see why people fall for shysters, tricksters, and the like.
Spending your time and energy trying to reach them, to get through to them, to change their hearts…
