Oh yes, I love to celebrate manufactured stress, commercial pressure, and exhausting social obligations. /s

Take the next step and remove yourself from holiday traditions. I only observe the solstice/equinox dates.

Basically this: how I think and believe humans should behave is not the way they actually behave. Many are hypocrites, saying one thing and doing another. They can be cruel and selfish, from simple malice all the way to repeating history through wars and killing. You never really learn the lessons given through life, and the worst part is that you teach your children to do the same thing. The thoughtless herd mentality, following trends and propaganda like it came from the sermon on the mount. The utter disregard for life and the planet, trashing the environment, and especially the abuse of other "lower" species. You're the only creature that goes directly against the flow of nature and it's killing the planet and everything on it. Even Gaia is trying to scratch you off her back.

It's not that I have hate in my heart, quite the opposite in fact. It's just hard to love a sentient species that acts like a virus or cancer.

Do better? Like the other eight billion of you? Ha. Hahahaha! Good one. My position stands.

It's a paradoxical trap: a general loathing/hatred for your own species, while also doing what you can to help and improve those around you without expecting compensation. It's less about empathy and more about my own moral obligation/responsibility, all while I watch humanity hang themselves by their heartstrings.

Quiet BPD, existential OCD, misanthropic altruism. It's probably better that I don't have friends.

I didn't wait through 13.8 billion years of cosmic soup just to give up.

Thank goodness for family bathrooms.

My dad doesn't misgender me, but he keeps deadnaming me, then apologizing by saying "you'll always be my little boy". I hate this so much. Why would you say that to me! It's literally the exact opposite thing I want to hear!

Do you folks think I should tell him why I started calling him "Pop"? I picked it up from Ranma 1/2 about 30 years ago. 😂

I mainly come off as "flowery elf child 1960s hippie witchy gothic Zen", wearing every piece of my homemade jewelry, looking like I just smoked an eighth of indica, and smelling like I just came from a Morrocan bazaar. I call it "the toasted fairy". :3