Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

by Phoebe Robinson

Oh! And remember a few years ago when a dude in the US legit had Ebola and went bowling and ate chicken wings with friends instead of quarantining himself because #WhiteNonsense? Say it with me: Dumpster. Fire.

Reading this book in 2021 hits different because that ebowla dude (get it? Ebola, bowling) is EVERYONE

Everyone is garbage. Everyone. I don’t care how great or altruistic or insanely talented a person is, there is something (or, if we’re being honest here, some things) absolutely ridiculous that they do, think, feel, or say. Repeat after me: No one on this planet can completely rid themselves of their trash ways.

I’ve never seen Schindler’s List, but I’ve devoured seas three of ANTM no less than eight times. If my eyeballs could #Unsubscribe from my body, they would.

Harassment is not designed to be temporary; it’s intended to stay with you, keep you in line, never allow you to fully relax and be calm. That way the perpetrator doesn’t even have to do the work of oppressing you. You’ll inadvertently do the work for him long after he’s forgotten what he’s done.

As for the second analysis of seventy studies, she found that loneliness, isolation, and living alone all had a significant effect on a person’s risk for early death.

Reading this in 2021 (covid times) hits different Part II