mine is that people in general are bad and terrible and my ideal life would be as a hermit with very little interaction with anyone except my animals and plants and no impact from people or governments and never reading the news.
when i was young, i was optimistic about the future of the human race but reality has bitch-smacked my inner child and taught me the truth and it keeps getting confirmed the older and older I get.
so what lessons have you learned as you’ve gotten older?
Some people aren’t even worth the energy and time to be angry at. They’re not even worth the energy it takes to think about. The sooner you stop spending your energy on them the better your life will be.
Secondly: The vast majority of people you encounter couldn’t give less of a crap about you. This one has taken me a long time to process as someone with social anxiety problems, but once you internally acknowledge this concept then life becomes a lot easier. Dress how you want, talk how you want, do what you want - people really aren’t going to care. And if they do, they’ll forget in 10 minutes.
This has taken me a lot of time and I’m still working on it, because I really do or did care about other people. I want everyone to do well, I want everyone to thrive, but this has most definitely not been my experience. I feel like when I was younger I cared less which is odd and it seems to be against most people’s experience.