Your life doesn't suck...great video with transcript

Original creator is Alyson Welborn (@alysonwelborn)

Your life doesn’t suck because your barista had blue hair. They still showed up, still remembered your order, still smiled, even if they were tired, even if you didn’t.

Your life doesn’t suck because your neighbor doesn’t speak English. They pay taxes, raise their kids, drive to work before the sun rises. You don’t need to understand their words to see that they’re doing exactly what you’re doing. Just trying to survive.

Your life doesn’t suck because a trans man used the men’s bathroom. He went in, he came out, the world kept spinning, it just wasn’t around you.

The problem was never children learning what a pronoun was. It was never about grammar. It was never about protecting kids.

Your life probably does suck, but not for the reasons you post about. Not because your favorite store sold a rainbow shirt, or because you had to press 1 for English. Not because someone said “Latinx” or “they/them” in a tweet that you didn’t have to read.

Your life might suck because you’re drowning in debt, because your rent just went up again and the only thing that trickled down is exhaustion. That pain is real, but it’s not the fault of the cashier with the pink nails, or the kids with a pride patch on their backpacks.

Someone’s life today sucks because they lost their daughter when a man with a gun walked into a school and made it a graveyard, and the politicians you voted for sent thoughts and prayers, and money to the NRA.

Someone’s life today sucks because ICE knocked on their door before breakfast was even made and now their father is gone, disappeared into a system designed to forget him.

Someone’s life today sucks because they came out to their family and were met with silence or fists or bible verses thrown like bricks.

And if you ask me if I care that your life sucks, I don’t.

I will look you in the eye and say I don’t.

I don’t care that your life sucks.

Not if your definition of pain is seeing someone different than you exist without apologizing. Not if your idea of oppression is having to share space with people you don’t understand and never tried to. I don’t care that everything going wrong is exactly what you voted for.

That the man you chose did what he said he was going to do, and now it’s affecting you.

I care about the millions who voted against it, who stood in long lines of broken systems with shaking hands and steady hearts trying to hold back the tide.

I care about the people you hated so much, you were willing to vote against their right to breathe, to marry, to walk into a store without fear, to learn history that includes them.

And somehow, you want sympathy?

Try empathy first. Try waking up in a world where your very existence is debated by strangers in suits.

Your life doesn’t suck because someone else found a little joy. 
It doesn’t suck because someone else got rights you already had.

It sucks because the people in power told you who to blame and you believed them. You were sold a scapegoat and called it salvation.

But you can still unlearn it. You can still sit down, shut up for a second, and listen because not every cry is about you. Not every protest is a threat.

Sometimes, it’s just people fighting for the right to live without asking for your permission.

So maybe your life does suck. But it’s not because of pronouns, or food stamps, or hair dye, or immigrants, or love.

It sucks because you keep mistaking comfort for freedom, and cruelty for strength.

And that’s on you.

Transcript found on Reddit. Video posted below at Bluesky.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Liberal/comments/1k7d0hy/not_my_poem_but_i_really_wanted_to_share_this/?rdt=44818

https://bsky.app/profile/larrytenney.bsky.social/post/3lnsd6lczu227