I think it comes with a bunch of other stuff too, honestly. I've thought about this a bunch, like, damn this hand kind of sucks buuuuuuut...
- I feel more empathetic a lot of the time. Like, I'm a big weirdo so I can kind of "get" how people are feeling when they feel weird/out of place/whatever and I think I have a pretty good amount of patience with folks and a hard time being judgemental for a lot of stuff.
- I feel like I try to hold myself accountable pretty vigorously. Like, if I'm thinking about wanting to be with an animal and trying to think how to do that ethically, I really need to try and watch myself and not try to justify stuff to myself just because I want it. This bleeds to other stuff.
- I tend to assume the best of and forgive people. I know I have this crazy secret that I carry around everywhere. I know in real life I present as pretty normal. I see all kinds of people out in the world that are mean, rude, odd, etc, but I know that if I've got this secret life or thought process, other people must have all kinds of crazy shit going on in their lives that I can't possibly imagine. If people knew my thing I'd really really really want them to give me a break so I kind of want to do the same thing to them proactively.
And I'm sure other stuff. I've probably taken some of this to unhealthy extremes at times, and I'm not a saint or anything, but I do feel good parts of these creep into my life and some of it is because of the zoo thing. I think so anyways, what the fuck do I know lol.
