It’s strange how often we confuse rebellion with authenticity. There’s nothing subversive about mocking contentment.
Wanting love, companionship, a steady life, these aren’t signs of conformity. They’re human desires, no less valid than wanting to live differently. Rebellion loses its meaning when it depends on someone else’s peace to define itself.
Acceptance isn’t just about being seen at all. Maybe letting others exist in the quiet lives they’ve chosen, without making them proof of your own originality or visibility?
Clearly I don’t need to be on the underside of cultural norms to know the difference between a resentment piece disguised as a yearning for visibility and a post where someone is actually trying to be seen. One screams look at me for being unlike you, for not eating society’s heteronormative bias for breakfast, the other just wants to exist without announcing it.
It’s strange how often we confuse rebellion with authenticity. There’s nothing subversive about mocking contentment.
Wanting love, companionship, a steady life, these aren’t signs of conformity. They’re human desires, no less valid than wanting to live differently. Rebellion loses its meaning when it depends on someone else’s peace to define itself.
Acceptance isn’t just about being seen at all. Maybe letting others exist in the quiet lives they’ve chosen, without making them proof of your own originality or visibility?
Seriously? That’s your response to this? Clearly you have never been on the underside of stifling cultural norms.
Clearly I don’t need to be on the underside of cultural norms to know the difference between a resentment piece disguised as a yearning for visibility and a post where someone is actually trying to be seen. One screams look at me for being unlike you, for not eating society’s heteronormative bias for breakfast, the other just wants to exist without announcing it.