Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said “people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better” and The Good Place said “every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good” and The Good Place said “even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative” and The Good Place said “if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don’t have time or energy to become a better person” and then The Good Place really said “people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don’t ” and THEN The Good Place really said “no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday” AND THEN! The Good Place said “Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love” OH MY FUCKING GOD.
I do believe in the power of sitting in your car just a little longer before heading inside, lying upside down on the couch, cloud gazing well into adulthood, taking the time to learn something new, humility, recollecting your dreams, pressing something warm against your belly, small talk w strangers, odes to romance, a lit candle on your countertop while you cook, having a sense of humor about life
as a child being told “the moon controls the tides” with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you’re talking about magic right now? okay. fine
sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn’t ready for “the sun is a distant gorilla”. thank you NASA
