Sounds like we’re all to blame. Maybe we really should consider boycotting Amazon and Walmart to stop people from relying on exploitative corporations for daily life. Talk to neighbors and coworkers to share excess commodities with each other. Maybe you might meet a soap-maker, a gardener, a hunter or beekeeper. You might be handy or a problem solver to help someone else out.
Real talk, no one out in public cares what you do or how you act until you inconvenience them. If you mind your manners, you’re just an NPC to everyone else. You’re an adult now in an adult world where everyone else has their own stuff going on. Can you remember the personality of the 2nd to last random person that held a door open for you?
Our insignificance gives you permission to be who you want to be and the freedom to do whatever you want. No one thinks more about you than you do. Your experience with your family left a strong impression on you about the world you’re in, but that’s their experiences not yours. It’s now your time to have your own & build a worldview on your terms as you. No one has the authority to tell you to act a certain way. You are who you are & everyone else will have to just deal with it if they have a problem. It sounds like the only person attacking you right now is you.
Learn how to make small talk. Read How to Win Friends & Influence People and pick out the tricks you think would work.
A lot of people I ask in person don’t happen to realize the size and population of Gaza compared to the state they live in. When you add that perspective, it might change their perspective.
I think we can start calling this whole global situation WW3 now.
How dare cyclists own the means of propulsion. Capitalism demands people buy expensive modes of transportation that requires payments to car companies, oil companies, insurance companies, and extra taxes. Get out of here with your free pedaling and infinite parking spaces!
How do people learn how to parent teenagers these days?
That’s a newspaper headline in a clickbait world.
Taking a fat shit in a public restroom. No reason to be shy about it. Everyones gotta go sometimes.
Adult is just being 18+ years old. What you may be looking for is how to mature as an adult. That’s done by trying, failing, and learning over and over again. You’ll always have some fear of new things, but you eventually learn how to bounce back from failure to reduce the fear. As you get older, you’ll lose the support of family because they die. As that happens, you’ll learn to fend for yourself. You will not mature if your are doing the same old stuff because it’s comfortable.