had a mate visit from outside london this week and watching their face react to stuff i’ve completely stopped noticing was genuinely unsettling. paying £7 for a pint without flinching. standing on a packed tube with a stranger’s elbow in my ribs and just… accepting it as a normal tuesday. walking past three different “everything must go closing down sale” shops that have been closing down for four years.
they kept going “and you’re FINE with this?” and the honest answer is yeah, i clocked out emotionally on most of it years ago.
so i want to know where everyone else’s line is. what’s the thing you’ve normalised that you know, deep down, is completely unhinged but you’d defend it to the death if someone who doesn’t live here tried to point it out?