adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.
children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
couple things here:
multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
I’m 32
“Just wait until you’re an adult, then you’ll really suffer!”
I’d… like… kids AND adults to both not suffer?
Capitalism screws us all over and I’d like kids and adults to have a better life than what they’re getting now?
Ok, remember the tiny bunny (who was friends with the giant polar bear)? Her name Keai? Her family hand delivered her from Singapore for full recovering and a gentle spa in January. Here she is on arrival, just as a reminder:
She started, as many patients do, with a bubble bath:
She was so tiny, her heart went into her head rather than her body! Once cleaned and stuffed she got recovered. Here are her first photos showing off her new fur:
And here she is proving she still fits in her clothes (she came with four costume changes!):
Her family asked for a few adjustments and photos of other angles:
Then she got dressed again and climbed into her travel case with her rubber ducky and carrot for the long overnight flight back to Singapore without a human escort:
When she arrived home, her person had her right back in front of the camera. Doing yoga (side plank):
Playing with her ducky:
Testing that all her clothes at home fit still:
And dressing up like the flight attendants who helped her get home:
Finally, her person sent combined before and after photos, so you can really see the difference:
when I was in 8th grade, this guy in my last class of the day leaned over to me and said “everyone thinks I’m wearing plaid shorts, but they’re really just boxers”
and sure enough, upon closer inspection, they were indeed just boxers
this kid just up and didn’t wear pants to school and no one noticed
I think about it a lot
you met a god of yore
he lived many people’s nightmares like it’s nothing
Alexis 