To care is to be vulnerable.

To care is to be vulnerable. According to the world its not cool to be vulnerable, its cool to be stoic, aloof, and unconcerned, because to emotionally inept people, this shows resilience, strength of character and the oh so admirable quality of being eternally unbothered. But this is all wrong, because to be constantly ‘unbothered’ is to be dead inside. For a lot of people, caring means losing. These are the people who invest all of their energy into performing instead of living because to appear unbothered all of the time, you must be in a constant state of pretence. Don’t aim to be like these people. They need more help than you think you do. But it is not your place to save them.

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I have made it my aim to stop trying to be likeable and instead just…