ChampionElCid
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I started writing fanfiction and slowly over time have progressed to writing poetry and short stories. On Vocal I hope to continue my writing and slowly begin to make a name for myself.
I hope I continue to impress you...
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Toxic Positivity
Greetings All! It's been a while since I've done one of these personal journal entries and I felt like doing one on a subject that's very important to me, and one that I feel many people don't really understand. I think I'll start this story talking about the movie "Inside Out" I'm going to assume most of you have seen it, though if you haven't it's a good representation of what I'm talking about. A big plot point in that movie is about how Joy wants to make Riley happy and thinks that her being happy will somehow fix what's wrong with her. One of the big moments in that movie is when she finally allows Sadness to take control of the console, realizing that she's the only one who can help Riley by allowing her to finally express what she's feeling. It's a good lesson about how sometimes we need to actually talk about what's bothering us, and not just pretend that everything is fine. For me the most basic definition of "Toxic Positivity" is trying to force someone to be happy when they don't actually feel happy. This topic is related to the whole "bottling up your emotions" that is present in society and especially directed towards men.
By ChampionElCidabout a year ago in Journal
My Grandmother, Aunt, and Mother
Greetings All! It's been a while since I wrote a piece about my life, but a few recent events have me thinking about this sort of thing some more. This topic is interesting as it's not something I would have really thought about until recently and I didn't really have the full picture of it until I heard stories from both my mother and my cousin. So first a little bit of context, the aunt I'm talking about is my mother's sister. The cousin I refer to is her daughter (she also had a brother who I reference to). I should also say that this cousin is one of the few family members I still talk to, which is a WHOLE different topic for another time. Though if you read my previous post about "Growing up Straight and Catholic" she's the same cousin I refer to in that one. Finally, the grandmother I'm talking about is the one on my mother's side.
By ChampionElCidabout a year ago in Journal
