where do TV shows get this idea that high school is constant drama, nothing even fucking happened to me in high school
Iām now remembering that my school got a slurpee machine and then had to get rid of it two weeks later after someone poured toxic chemicals into it that they stole from the science lab in an attempt to poison the entire cheerleading squad so like, maybe I was just boring
Not every day you find out youre a background character
… why I take Greyhounds, to meet people. Despite everything I wrote above, almost all of it which reads negative, sitting here now, looking back, I’m very glad I did this journey, because I met a lot of people I would have never encountered otherwise. Tough, troubling, but almost all genuinely decent human beings.
That’s why I encourage everyone to walk and take buses whenever you can, because you end up dealing with people who remind you what humanity actually is. Not the polished cartoonish version we’re supposed to aspire to, but the far more common messy, complicated, and resilient version.
