Took a friend to the airport today. They're flying to spend Christmas with their parents. I don't really get it. Their parents are not kind to them, were not supportive of them in any way, and upon them buying themselves the thing they always wanted provided disapproval in the form of refusing to speak to them for 6 months.

Why would anyone want to spend time with people who mistreat their happiness and growth and do not show them support and love?

I feel like this must be another societal expectation thing, arising from some form of "I am not a good human unless I do X", and the position I have found myself arrive at after a lot of internal growth is that there is literally nothing worth changing yourself or doing things you do not want to do for, other than yourself.

So to anyone out there thinking you have to do something or you aren't a good human, grant yourself the gift this Christmas of a reprieve from that line of thinking and start doing things that are solely yours. It's form of liberation and it's better, I promise you.

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