I have seen this phrase consistently and regularly thrown around the forum since I first joined here a couple of years ago. It's an easy thing to write, after all. It's an easy promise to make.
"It gets better."
Three simple words. Three simple words designed to breed and elicit hope. Three simple words composed of only a total of 12 letters. There's nothing complex about it. It's easy in its stark simplicity. It's so basic, in fact, that even a cave-tranny could understand it.
"It gets better."
It's also a happy, feel-good phrase. I mean, "better" is good, right? It's certainly better than "worse." So who wouldn't want to hear this? Who wouldn't want to believe desperately in this promise?
"It gets better."
The thing is, as well-meaning and otherwise innocent as this simple statement may be, it's also quite naïve, dangerous, and a crock of shit.
At least in my experience to date it has been. For I, too, among many others here have been the recipient of this seemingly hollow promise on multiple occassions.
"It gets better."
Not for me it hasn't. It's just become different. It's become more complicated. And it's become more scary.
Please, however, understand that I firmly believe that what I am doing is the right thing for me. I cannot, in fact, do otherwise. I will not do otherwise. I shall continue on doing my thing until I am right with myself.
But there will be much collateral damage. There already has been.
Is this better, though? Will it get better?
I have posted very little here lately. I haven't had much to say. Or rather, I haven't had much that I want to say or acknowledge.
It's not better. I don't even really know what "better" means anymore. I sure as hell, though, know what "harder" means.
"It gets better."
Yeah. Okay.
Whatever.