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Cassandra Granade
@xgranade@wandering.shopSomething on my mind today: the ways that the culture I am immersed in finds to denormalize, exoticize, and pathologize passion.
Call it "justice sensitivity," or just being sensitive. Call it being excitable, getting worked up, high-strung, judgy, preachy. Never call it empathy or morals or passion or care for the human beings with whom we share this tiny spinning ball of wet dirt.
For whatever my own commands, declarations, imperatives, and the force of my will matter:
It is OK to care. You should do that. A lot. Always. When you need or simply want rest, you should not forget care and passion, or let others talk you out of it — you should hold it dearly and cherish it until you are ready to return to it and let it blaze anew.