@alinaferry

Gonna get a little personal here - so if you wanna use it against me - go ahead and try There is no secret that I’m occasionally an emotional person who gets triggered by the most random stuff. I tend to sometimes overshare, more often than not argue with others, and so on, so on. If you’ve been on this ride with me for a while, you’re probably used to this flying circus (and secretly (or not) enjoying it). Trust me - people who know me irl are exposed to the same behavior daily, so you, my dear readers, are not alone in your misery here. Anyhow, what a lot of folks don’t know is that despite my extremely outgoing public persona, I’m one of the most mentally stable people I know in my life. What do I mean by that? Every time there is a major political, social, or any other type of actual crisis, I’m somehow able to hold my shit together and keep my ducks in a row (well, not somehow - years of training, duh) As in someone tells me “all is lost - we all gonna die”, and I go “sure, we are, and I totally see why it’s so obvious now, but falling apart on our own and, thus, dying today seems counterproductive regardless” A great example of this would be Feb 22 when a lot of my friends were completely losing it (quite understandably). I was not. I was upset, ashamed, and scared, but I was still thinking straight. Like I told people at the time “if we start losing our marbles too, we won’t be able to help anyone at all and fix any of this” I’m saying all this not to make myself look better, smarter, invincible, or whatever. I just happen to be calmer in certain situations because I’ve gone through particular types of shit and I know how to not crack when the walls are actually caving in. Some folks are just better prepared for it than others - that’s about it. So here comes the actual moral of this story - check in on your “strong” friends, too, please. Just because someone is not running around in circles, doesn’t mean they don’t need a safe space to vent, work on their (and everyone else’s) action plans, or just stop and take a breather for a minute. *This cast is brought to you by my failed attempt at finding a support group for a particular cause* **nobody reads this**

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