That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Jeff VanderMeer
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The world is a crazy place where the saying, "You are what you believe you are," could never be truer. The world is filled with people trying to colonize us by forcing us to live in its reality. Our society is filled with parents who do not want their kids to be different than they are. They want them to become a carbon copy of themselves.

This often leads them to make their children feel bad about themselves and makes them feel as though they don't have any worth. Parents all over the world try to make their children conform to their beliefs and thoughts about themselves by making these children feel as though they aren't good enough.

Source: Annihilation

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