I have a gemstone (I forget what kind, it's a dark purple though) worry stone. It's just the right shape to rest in my hand and let me rub my thumb over it. I don't really use it for that often, but on occasion it's nice to just hold a cool stone, literally and figuratively.
Yeah THAT blows my mind a bit? I posted to an empty community and it got deleted. What the fuck? It wasn't offensive and it was on topic. It was a niche community too.
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A powerful statement in therapy that still hits me when I think about it. "You don't stop being someone's child." (I'll leave it without context, the context would be too painful and personal, so read that however you want.)
Had a tamer but similar hill near my home growing up. Loved speeding down. It ended in a lot filled with gravel. Fortunately the day I spun out on the gravel lot was coming from a different, slower direction. Developed an extremely bad case of road rash all over one leg. When I realized what might have happened if I'd been taking the hill instead, that I probably would have broken my legs or worse, I stopped going down that hill. Realization of mortality can be like a bucket of ice water sometimes.
I'm with you on the confusion because it's like... I don't feel the need to act this way, why do other people? What drives them that, in a void, they resort to these thoughts and behaviors? Is this who they really are, or is it an act, like doing an evil playthrough in a game. "I want to because I can here, and I can't anywhere else?"
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Fun fact, they're a co-op!