Hello and happy Sunday funday. [Blogged while feeling ill from gummy bears, but also wanting more gummy bears.]

OK, so here’s the situation. I can’t understand how lots of people just like don’t care. Like truly don’t give a fuck about really bad things happening in the world. It could be the gummies talking, but I have to imagine that if we know something bad is happening, and we have the power to change it, or at the very least not support it, we would. Right? Or nah.

Ugh, here she goes. Yeah. Here I go.

I’m tired of people telling me I’m just one person. That the things I do don’t matter. They won’t change anything. Like what a stupid fucking thing to say. And what a sad, terrible outlook on life. The truth is, if more people gave fucks and actually tried to change the things they didn’t like about this world — they would change. I’m not saying you have to go clean the ocean. (But if you are, can I come.) Maybe if you see a plastic water bottle some asshole threw out of his car, pick it up and recycle it.

OK, so I’ve lost about half of you by now. Which is fine. Used to it. I’ve learned that when people are faced with a reality they don’t like, they ignore it. Because it’s easy. And because if you don’t think about it and can’t see it, you can pretend it doesn’t exist. But all the shitty things you don’t want to see, or hear, or talk about are still there, hidden behind your veil of willful ignorance. And like isn’t our responsibility to give fucks though? Like maybe just a few? About literally anything. Pick something.

I remember walking through my college campus one day — head down, trying to get to my next class — when someone shoved a PETA flyer into my line of sight. Like what the fuck. Didn’t ask. So I yelled, “Stop showing me that shit,” and briskly walked away. Looking back, it wasn’t the student I was angry with. Just a girl trying to change a nasty reality. I was upset because I was faced with something I actively tried to ignore. That’s what we do though, right? We get pissed off at those who shine light on things we don’t like, when we should be channeling that energy into actually doing something about it.

I challenge you to find a reality you wish wasn’t there, with eyes wide open. Let yourself feel things you don’t like feeling. And then — big or small — do something about it.