So the world tells us that you need to be married, you need to have children, you need to have this and that it's out there on social media, maybe you need to have this body, you need to have so much money, you need to be doing all these things and have these things. I'm so emotional right now because the pressure. The pressure is real because we want to live our best lives, right? We do. We want to live our best lives
SayCo Show
@saycoshow · 2:23
And I see what you're getting at here, though, and maybe someone needed to hear this that feels maybe like, oh, no, I'm being left behind. Everyone else is doing what they're supposed to do. They're already married. They already have two kids. They already have 100,000 in the bank. They already have this, this and this
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@homosanity · 3:55
Thank you, Seiko. And, you know, I think it even goes deeper than maybe what it might have sounded like, too. I got emotional, so I had to stop. But, you know, I have, you know, I had a dream for myself that I would be married and have children by the age of 25. That may never happen. I'm 54 now. That may never happen. My past so far has not brought that to be
SayCo Show
@saycoshow · 4:58
And we would talk about it and I would be a yes, he would be a no, and then a few years later, he would be a no, and I would be a yes. And it flip flopped like that for years. We tried adoption here in the red states, in the south, and we were always denied early on for different then, you know, the money aspect. We don't have family in our lives. We don't have a lot of money
L A
@homosanity · 1:52
Homosanity here. Seiko I really appreciate the vulnerability and the details of all that you went through. My God, I don't know many people that would have went through all that over and over. That breaks my heart. It goodness and I believe like you do, that we have a certain path in our lives and that's exactly why I made this post
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Derek Pierre
@DerekPierre · 4:51
And it is something to get emotional about because that timetable is put on us. And I think to break out of that is really hard. It's difficult because you kind of have to deal with the idea of being an outlier in society. And if you have any community at all, it's at least a society that you participate in. I think the illusion that comes with that, though, is really tough. It's marketing 101