You question and you may end up back where you started but you got there in a new way.
This is good. This is important.
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I was recently reminded of the implications of ascribing the labels of good and bad to things, and our tendency to do this a ridiculous amount.
I’m trying now to stop using good and bad altogether.
Because that is never actually what I mean, what I want to say.
It is not specific enough.
Sometimes when I have said good I really meant:
beautiful
wonderful
joyful
lovely
smart
helpful
vulnerable
happy
appreciated
important
Sometimes when I have said bad I really should have said:
hurtful
scary
overwhelming to me
incomprehensible
heartbreaking
confusing
frustrating
oppressive
ignorant
belittling
And so, we question why it is that we do the things we do, that we say the things we say.
And it is good. It is beautiful.
AMV