We're All Damaged

by Matthew Norman

Never trust someone who isn’t miserable at least half of the time.

I realize how utterly amazing it is that we’re all able as humans to go about our daily lives without constantly obsessing over the fact that each of us will almost certainly be in a sterile bed someday, medicated and slowly dying. This

#death #dying

We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason.

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It’s going to explode every time. You just don’t know when.”

“Sometimes, it feels like I went to the zoo and they gave me two chimpanzees, and now I have to take them places and buy them food and raise them like they’re my own.”

Parenting is mostly bribery . . .

“Marriage isn’t easy, Andy,” he says. “You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they’ll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore.”

'till death do u part...

Marriage isn’t about agreeing. It’s about staying.

#marriage

“Daughters,” he says. “You raise them and watch them grow up, and you love them so much it makes you crazy. Then one day some guy shows up. Maybe he’s nice. Maybe he’s got a good job. Maybe he’s got his shirt tucked in and he calls you sir. But he’s never quite what you’re hoping for.

Facebook is the literal manifestation of all our regrets, looping and looping, for free, on our computers and phones. People who should be gone and safely out of our lives forever are there again, one cryptic little glimpse at a time, reminding us of all the things we should or shouldn’t have done.

Every centimeter of the female body has been sexualized.

Are all our parents, collectively, fucked up? Have they always been fucked up, and it just takes us until our own adulthood to figure that out?

#parents