Few things on the Internet are actually heartwarming. Viral videos, in particular, are usually depressing or weird or weirdly depressing. But that’s why videos like this one are so great. They swoop in and delete the Internet’s permanent jaded smirk and replace it with a lip-curling smile. What Would You Do? is a candid camera type of show that places people in imagined screwed-up situations and asks them the question, what would you do if you saw this crazy shit IRL? It’s like Punk’d without the celebrities and Ashton Kutcher’s annoying voiceover. In this segment, a boy comes out to his mother at a coffee shop and she has an unfavorable reaction. Thankfully, a sweet homosexual-loving woman happened to be nearby who intervened and told the mother to stop being such a homophobic bitch. Well, she didn’t actually say that. Just watch the video. 
Woman Calls Homophobic Mother Out On Being Homophobic
By
Ryan O'Connell,
Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.
“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino
Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.
