A Note From Ariel

Okay so I am apart of this great group on Facebook called "Blender", essentialy it is an a group of Women who have come together to share Idea's, frustrations, advice, good news, Random thoughts, etc. Well recently there was a post from one of my friends Ariel and it was just to good not to share with you all.

A Note From Ariel:
"Essentially I lost faith in the American bootstraps capitalistic ethic of throwing your life into working and churning out cash and having your soul sucked out. I realized that I deserved a break. Ive been on a treadmill my whole life and I am exhausted. I admitted to myself that I'm allowed to mess up, and that this was my designated "I'm a fuck up" year. 

I realized after weeks of contemplation that Hard work and sweating and toiling just to be able to eat is not a virtue like the Puritans want you to think. Hardship doesn't make you a more godly, evolved person. Only someone from a place of privilege can say that. It just mostly makes you tired and disillusioned. Republicans aren't better than me because they never took welfare or took a day off in their lives, or because my mom was on WIC to feed me as a baby and their mom wasnt. fucking congratuIations. gold star. i am a fragile person and I admit to it. I need help sometimes. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of my illness but I am of what it reduces me to. People think they're better than me because they suffered needlessly, never took help from the government, never had to beg for money or sleep on someone's couch, never been fired from a job bc they're just such go-getters gosh golly gee. People like that I needed out of my life. Being human is ducking hard and gross and complicated as it is and if you're going to tell me that I don't deserve food or healthcare or equal rights because you think I'm too lazy or unambitious or not enough whatever then you can just get bent. Attach your moral criticisms elsewhere. 

Maybe my life doesn't revolve around being a cog in the Amurrican corporate machine. I AM lazy. I like sleeping in, and I do deserve food, clothes, basic bodily protection, stability, warmth and kindness without having to prove myself. 

I'm not going to apologize to people for self-care anymore. I don't care if you think I should have bought food instead of getting a manicure-pedicure. I don't care if you think I'm milking the government. I am. It milks me and I milk it right back. I was given no choice over being born, being hunan is terrifying and dark and confusing, so yes I'm entitled to basic things such as food and clean air, water, clothes, bodily hygiene, good schools and roads and hospitals and police. It's the least that can be done to make up for being alive."

That's all I have for you guy's tonight. Feel free to comment.

Love
Christiania