Don't Make Life Tougher

Imagine what it must have been like to be a gay person born in the 1950s when even an accusation was enough to wreck your career and carefully constructed life. Imagine how disorienting it would be if your gender was even a question you needed to consider for more than a second.

If you can't celebrate and be accepting of how others live, you can at least strive not to make their lives harder. You can at least leave them alone.

We don't control what happens to us. We don't control how hard life is for people we care about. But you know what we do control? We control whether or not we make things harder for others.