The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
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I like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
Loved you in Dallas.
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
“I could never love you like that.”
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends.
I’ve pooed myself a couple of times.
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
Big dick energy.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
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