Doesn’t need to be a life or death situation, just any moment in your life where you found yourself saying “Holy shit, I can’t believe this is happening!”

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    7 months ago

    “I need an adult!!! Wait… I am the adult!?”

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      We all need someone to look up to. Eventually YOU become the person that people look up to, especially if you have kids. I think about that often and it’s sobering because it’s a huge responsibility.

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        7 months ago

        It’s a responsiblity that should be only happening to people who’ve lived long-enough to have the basis, in experience, for doing it.

        We’ve been failing children, more & more profoundly, as we’ve been letting the segregation-of-authority-from-responsibility and segregation-of-wealth-from-earners progress…