Chapter 5 - The Mute
Charlie, don’t you get it? … You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.
—Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suggested browsing song: The Mute by Radical Face
It's up to all of us individually what we are willing to tolerate or sacrifice in this life. Leaving this living situation was me making a choice: I could no longer tolerate anything in my life that took away my autonomy and my ability to share my perspectives.