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birthday again.

  I scrambled to write the excerpt I'm going to share down below one night in a fit of anxiety + general dread one night back in June. I get like this every June. I do this around New Year's, too.    I don't like the conception of time. I suppose it bothers me. It apparently worsens as I creep up the ladder of age. I do what I can to shift my thoughts onto anything lighter than the existential, but nonetheless: it remains.   I think I appreciate it about myself, if I'm honest. That is, if you take, "existential dread" + just shave off the "dread" portion. Annoyingly, being so chronically empirical about life can give one quite a bit of depth in perspective, I've found.   It makes moments more important. I document a lot of things because I have a fear of being forgotten, hence my love of photography & videography. I create so that I can try with everything in me to somehow let somebody know I was here on this planet, long after I'm gone. ...
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Mental Illnesses Have Turned Into Fads - A Rant

  I'm just going to start off this blog post by saying that if you're offended by the title, chances are: you're likely the reason mental illness has become a fad. Anyone who is actually affected by mental illness will agree with me and understand what I'm saying. Moving on.
  I feel like I catch myself more times than not scrolling through Instagram and finding people using depression and anxiety as a way to market themselves, and it's ridiculous.
  The fact that mental illnesses have turned into something resembling a fashion statement is absolutely insane. I cannot imagine legitimately choosing to have anxiety or depression to make myself more relatable to the general public. Mental illnesses have been romanticized in our society, plain and simple, and it's stupid. 
  I know this is short and may come off across as preach-y, but to be honest, it needed to be said, in my opinion. In a first-world mindset where everything seems to be "offensive" these days, let it be said: claiming that you struggle with a mental illness for attention is so utterly disgusting. You should feel ashamed of yourself.
  I wouldn't wish having mental illness on my worst enemy, and I'm sorry to anyone else that has to live their day-to-day life with it, in any form.




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