once every couple of weeks a tweet or tiktok will go viral where some 19 year old psych student will go "did you know: feeling a bit sad when you're hungry is actually a symptom of multiple mental illnesses? crazy right!?" or some other kind of normal behaviour pathologized and it'll get tens of thousands of shares and a bunch of people in the comments will go "WAIT omg normal people don't feel this way??" and we are a little further from world peace
i know this website talks a lot about how we all wish we’d never grown up but very few scenes hit me like the one in 13 going on 30 where jenna realises she doesn’t like the person she’s become so she goes back home and vienna by billy joel is playing and she sees a group of teenage girls and she realises how badly she wishes she was still a child and when she gets to her childhood home it’s empty so she sits in the closest and cries as she desperately wishes to be thirteen again and when her parents come home she cries into their shoulders like she’s a little girl again and can’t fall asleep until she’s lying next to her mother in bed…like. what the fuck was that. i’m crying just thinking about it.
the year is 2039 im in the middle of a 14 hour shift driving a cyber hands free semi-truck that needs a human monitor to keep it from blowing through red lights indiscriminately. since the water is undrinkable we’re back to drinking beer instead im drunk and the AI hologram personified as a non threatening woman with a computer voice in the passenger seat keeps trying to seduce me because fucking the hologram is a fireable offense and the company is trying to downsize