Getting older

[cookiemonsterdebate@lemmy.world]

I have no idea who that guy is but he looks really happy and I only wish I had the same sparkle in my eyes. I wish him all the best loving being who he is. Thank god there are happy weird people sharing joy in the world!

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Nope. At least not for some. It's like those quirks and oddities that you found fun or entertaining in your peers when you were school- or maybe college-age get set on a slippery slope, sometimes on a skateboard with a tailwind. Extremes of politics, weird beliefs in things like anti-vax or flat earth, pseudo- or bro-science, fundy religion, prejudices, addiction... age amplifies the fuckery in some peoples' heads and makes them completely resistant to anything contradicting that.