• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’ve told this story before elsewhere, but, like, I graduated high school a year ahead of my class. I was the valedictorian.

    Four months after I graduated high school, while I was still a 17-year-old teenager, I found myself homeless, because my mom is a dick.

    My dad attempted to jumpstart my life for nearly a decade after that. The women I loved attempted to jumpstart my life for nearly a decade after that.

    My friends put themselves out of their way to jumpstart my life for nearly a decade after that until it finally clicked.

    I have been bailed out of being a miserable piece of shit more times than I deserve.

    I know that I am still a miserable piece of shit on the inside, but thanks to the help of all of the people that kept coming to my rescue, I am a moderately successful miserable piece of shit.

    If the world has conspired to give that to me, I also want the world to give that to all of the other pieces of shit out there, in hopes that, even though we are all pieces of shit, that eventually we will break down into fine, healthy compost that will nourish seeds of some other plant that isn’t a piece of shit.