#idk i just wanna pretend my parents and i share the same core values and beliefs

[rubberbandballqueen]

i feel like when i bitch about my parents on this site i make them out to seem more right-wing than they might actually be but the truth is that i mostly just want to pretend that my parents are secretly good people

#sometimes i think 'what would jesus do' VERY HARD at them #idk they're just products of their time i guess and so i can understand how they got to where they are #and i mentioned this months and months ago i think when i lost it over how my parents voted in the 2020 elections #abt how i feel like they don't always have the values they worked hard to instill within me #but i think a part of that comes from how i was also sort of raised on the internet? on this website? #had i not been on tumblr i would have had the same understandings of generosity empathy and acceptance as they do #i'm a very 'listen to the people who came before you. they know better than you' kind of person #and like the second i learn that you're older or more experienced than me then it becomes very easy for me to kind of like #fall in line like a duckling and imprint on your lessons in much the same way #well okay significantly older and more experienced like at least three or four years older than me at this still young stage of my life #idk i just wanna pretend my parents and i share the same core values and beliefs #the worm speaks #it's just easier that way