5 Minute Freewrite: eject her

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Eject her. Eject her. Ejecter. Ejector. Ejector. Projector. Project her. Project, her. She's a project. A project is a thing. A project is a thing that you do. A project can be a craft project, like making a container out of popsicle sticks, or a project can be a work project, like creating a presentation of the annual budget, or a project can be a person, like in She's All That. But a project should probably not be a person because that means you're trying to change someone and mold them into some idea, some ideal, of what you think a person should be, and all a person should be is a person. And every person is different, every person has their way of being. And if it do no harm, let it be. We have to be in relation to others, of course, but do we really have to be a certain way that conforms to expectations set by people in power, be it religious power or government power or wealth power? Let's be done with conformity, it's not getting us anywhere good. I think it's incredibly shameful, how we treat people in this country. In most countries, I guess. Maybe countries are shameful. Gotta have power to have a country. We don't really look at people, at all people, we turn our gaze away from what we don't want to see, because we don't want to see things that would mean we have to change in uncomfortable ways. And really, all change is uncomfortable. Can you think of any change that doesn't come along with discomfort? I am thinking of this myself. It's hard to think and write at the same time.