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The Right Way To Look at The World

I've been watching the first season of The White Lotus and for those unfamiliar with the show, it follows a few rich families as they spend their time at a resort in Hawaii. Each family is massively flawed though one particularly caught my attention due to their conversations. The mother is a CEO of a multinational cooperation, the father is unknown but makes less than her, son is addicted to pornography and screens, and daughter is a drug addict with insane jealousy issues. They all have different ideas of what is right and voice them often. The daughter has a black friend who she brought, who both share the idea that "it's time for the white man to step aside" which is contrary to the mother who feels for her son, saying that it's not his fault and not he's being unfairly ostracized from society. The resort they are staying at used to be native and sacred land but the government and developers didn't care. Some of those natives now work at the hotel. Tha...

April 25 (forgot to post)

Day in and day out the thought most prevalent in my brain is “am I doing the right thing”. In theory this should be a good way to approach life, however the amount of anxiety this little question I always ask has created is innumerable.  Should I go ask this girl out? Are you gonna do it right? You didn’t do it right. My mind has it’s own view on right which is often observed by how others but especially those online act.  If I’m not smooth enough or feel like I have good enough a conversation I get down on myself. I feel like a failure because I’ve seen people do better.  It prevents me from trying new things, and being present with everyday life. Even when I’m relaxing I feel stressed because I should be doing something, since that’s the right thing to do.