My whole thing is that I completely own that I may be a misanthropic freak of nature, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'm not that much of one, and if parents really are that fulfilled by parenting why don't they ever stop complaining about ithttps://twitter.com/Brien_Jackson/status/1373241380907155461 …
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(If I had to name one character trait of mine that's the most likely to turn people off about me it's the extension of the child hating thing - it's that while I strongly morally condemn deadbeat dads I also overwhelmingly empathize with them There but for the grace of God)
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(There is an alternate universe where I have a biological kid somewhere that I've seen in person all of twice and I am voluntarily choosing to work double shifts at a crappy job as preferable to being a custodial parent)
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(And everybody in my family and the mom's family hates me for this choice but it's literally that or suicide And someday that kid's gonna do the Will Smith monologue "WHY DON'T HE WANT ME, MAN?" and I'll have no answer but "I'm just a shitty person, okay?!")
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Anyway whenever I feel bad about my actual current life, which ever since the pandemic started is pretty much all the time to varying degrees, I just think about this possible other me in this other timeline and realize how lucky I am to not be him
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