Value contradictions: You're Not the Only One

I'm sitting here at 2:14 am and I’m looking at these vector files for a company that basically embodies everything I’ve spent my entire adult life protesting. …

I’ve spent forty years sitting in the third pew from the front, every Sunday like clockwork, and honestly i probably could’ve done the whole thing in my sleep.

I spent years staring at Trilobites and Tiktaalik while my mother’s voice recited Genesis in the back of my head like a skipping record.

I’m sitting here on the kitchen floor at 2:13 am and everything tastes like limestone and old yeast. …

That’s what it’s like here since the mill folded. …

I work as a private chef for people who have more money than they know what to do with. …

i just spent 8k on a seamaster and i feel like im actually gonna throw up. …

I have a peace sign tattooed over my ribs from when I was nineteen and thought I could save the world with a megaphone and a bag of lentils. …

It’s a systemic feedback loop designed to strip-mine the middle class until there’s nothing left but the bones. …

Where’s the DIVINE ARCHITECTURE in that? …

i spend eight hours a day under these buzzing fluorescent lights soldering things that look like tiny metallic spiders and i catch myself thinking about the ergonomics of the soldering iron instead… …

By day, I’m the person on the community board pushing for the 'Shop Small' initiative—I literally write the newsletters about how local artisans are the lifeblood of our social ecosystem. …

Every Sunday morning, you stand up there behind the pulpit or the podium or whatever it is, and you feel the seams straining. …

I’m sitting on the cold tile of the bathroom floor at 2 AM because it’s the only room in this house with a lock that actually works and I feel like I’m losing my mind. …

i am currently sitting on the floor of the handicap stall in the venue bathroom and the bass from the music is literally making the tiles vibrate under my feet and i just had to get out before i… …