RANT

Everyone will let you down.
It sounds pessimistic, but it’s true. It’s sort of inevitable. When I was younger, I thought that if someone loved you, you automatically loved them back. I thought that everyone would have that perfect, fairy-tale ending. I thought everyone would find their soulmates and all the beautiful feelings of adoration would be reciprocated. Unfortunately for eight-year-old me, this isn’t the case. The sad truth is, you could love someone and give them the world and they could still not give a single damn about you. And you could do the same to them. It took me a long time to figure out that not everyone is going to like you and you aren’t going to like everyone. That’s just the way life works. People only look out for themselves. They don’t care. I thought friends would always be at your side, but I was wrong. I thought family would always support you, but I was wrong. I thought people were truly good, but I was wrong. You could be dying, or in pain, or desperate for help, and no one would step up and do something. No one does anything. You just have to become self-reliant.