Where is your wound? Projecting your own reality into the outside world and using your preferred connotations to interpret what you see out there is DELUSIONAL.
There is a difference between being DENIED choice and simply not liking what is presented for you to decide upon. If the choices you make determine your character, then who are you if you make no choices except when one benefits you?
Something that I don't think many people realize is that just because you're not "happy", doesn't mean then your only option is depression. 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙀𝙓𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙄𝙊𝙉.
I give everyone one chance to show me who they are ... and I believe them. I blame no one for their trauma but I do blame them for deciding to spread it to others and drag innocent people into their darkness. No one deserves that and I don't abide it.
People don't think about their triggers, they are controlled by them and then they respond THROUGH them. Thinking, for most people, follows emotional states. For stoics it's the opposite.
Growing up in the late 70's and 80s my world was so small. I could never have imagined there were people like me out there in the wider world. There was no wider world.
We survived the end of the world and now we've really gone crazy. And why not? We have nothing better to do and merely surviving is boring AF. Let's fuck some shit up and kill some snowflakes.
There was no point in my life where I was allowed to be just myself. I was not well liked, appreciated, or seen by the majority of people. That was fine.