Too late.

Bad people have changed my idea of what a good person is.

It’s not the polite smile on the sideline. It’s the angry grimace on the front line fighting for equity and Justice.

Paxton Fettel approves.

I always told it meant: False Expectations Appearing Real and has helped me get through many situations I felt overwhelmed with fear going into.

Hard disagree

Kindness matters. So does the truth. Equally. Find balance in that. It’s not easy.

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Unless it's illegal lol

I don’t think of kindness as something where anyone can take advantage. Kindness doesn’t require an exchange. You can be kind without giving up anything and without appearing weak. You can be kind to every person the same without risking anything at all for the sake of being kind.

You should use the same caution with people that you always would. You should expect people to show you the same kindness that you show them. You should set boundaries and not tolerate disrespect. Nothing changes in this regard depending on kindness.

This is the correct answer.

No.

I have never heard anyone tell me to fear

Fantastic expectations, amazing revelations

Final execution and resurrection

Free expression as revolution

Finding everything and realizing

You got the fear

This is sooo hard to do

People who only respond to power dynamics (most people on Earth) learn they can't walk all over you. This benefits you.

Keep in mind there are more clever and more effective ways to hit back than "eye for an eye" but that's the simplest way to stand up for yourself and it's easily understood and respected by most people.

Focus. Endeavor. Attack. Rat.

Fuck everything, ami right?

plot twist: the right decision is to pay your bills

so you pay either way

^(yay capitalism!)

So my choices are fight or flight? That tracks.

And incremental progress at that. Two steps forward, one step back is par for the course. Patience and self compassion are essential.

First Encounter Assault Recon

Sure everyone has to practice, but not all people have the potential to improve equally.

>In a study published in PLoS ONE earlier this year, researchers from the University of Helsinki assessed people's musical creativity based on their ability to judge pitch and time as well as skills such as composing, improvisation and arranging. They found that the presence of one particular cluster of genes correlated with musical creativity. Crucially, this cluster belongs to a gene family known to be involved in the plasticity of the brain: its ability to reorganise itself by breaking and forming new connections between cells.
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>​ “Being artistic or creative is associated with the personality trait of being open to experiences,” Garrison says. “Some research suggests that there are neurobiological foundations for creative individuals. Based on all available information, it is very likely that the capacity for creativity is shaped by genetic influences –– it’s a complicated way of saying that creativity and artistic interests can almost certainly be inherited.”
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>"The people who are better at drawing really seem to have more developed structures in regions of the brain that control for fine motor performance and what we call procedural memory," she explained.

No matter how much you practiced, you would never be as good a swimmer as Michael Phelps or as good a basketball player as Michael Jordan. You would never be as quick a thinker as Stephen Hawking. There are fundamental biological differences that orient people toward being naturally better at some things than others that if given equal practice, the person with the natural gifts will excel more in. That isn't a bad thing, it is the crux of humanity to have different people of different talents that should motivate people to rely and build together.

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Fear does have two meanings technically

As a noun - an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.

As a verb - be afraid of (someone or something) as likely to be dangerous, painful, or threatening.