After 24 hours in vinegar, that pork must be begging for mercy on the grill.

Exactly... it's wild how often people think they know better than the person actually living in their own body. I've had family push their ideas on me for years and it just wears you down, you know? Letting people choose for themselves is just basic respect.

Yeah, that sudden quiet thing is real. My brain would start yelling about nothing, like if I left the stove on or why I said that dumb thing in 2012. What finally worked was switching my phone for a boring podcast played super low. Something about a calm voice talking about history or whatever gives my brain just enough to grab onto so it stops spinning its own awful stories. It's like a gentle off-ramp instead of slamming on the brakes.