the first part of your life involves learning that you have to put up with shit the second part of your life involves learning that you don't
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the first part of your life involves learning that you have to put up with shit the second part of your life involves learning that you don't
you spend the early years of your life repeatedly hearing that you need to put up with shit (read: more shit than you think you have to put up with) this is somewhat true, in fact, in practice, at young ages, though less true than people want you to think
by the time you're living on your own, making your own friends, choosing your own job (vs going to school) ...you have a lot of options for not putting up with shit!
even if all the jobs you can get kinda suck, you still don't have to put up with any particular one—you get to pick which tradeoffs to deal with!
part of realizing that you don't fundamentally have to put up with anything is realizing that you made a bunch of choices/commitments in ways that were more like "I have to put up with this" than "I want this". coercion, not consent.