don't be angry at your younger self

as everybody born in 2005-07 is growing up and looking back on themselves in 2020, instead of calling it "cringe" and spending too much time hating on yourself for not knowing better, look at how much you've learned since then! eyeliner skills, better writing, whatever your thing was. I personally learned to stop engaging with literal idiots online. Even though the household I live in isn't at all friendly or totally accepting, the internet space was where I was at my most creative and loud - was some of the stuff I was loud about pretty embarrassing? Yeah, but I was 15 and in lockdown. Don't be so hard.