There is a phrase that has been passed around for centuries, pulled out during plagues and wars and famines and collapses. It goes like this: this too shall pass. People put it on pillows. They quoted it at funerals. They offered it to each other like a small kindness in terrible times.

But somewhere between the political circus and the third time your rent went up in two years, the phrase started to feel a little hollow. Like telling someone their house is on fire and following it up with think positive thoughts.

EGOPROOF made a bumper sticker and magnet for that gap between hope and reality. It says "this too shall pass but like holy fuck." Because yes, things will eventually change. And also, the wait is genuinely brutal.

We are living through something real right now. The right-wing machine has been running at full speed through institutions that were supposed to be neutral. Healthcare costs are being used as a control mechanism.

Grocery bills have quietly become a math problem nobody signed up to solve. Wages haven't kept pace with rent, food, or basic survival since before most people under 40 were born. The news cycle feels like it was engineered by someone who wants you too tired to fight back.

The people who need this sticker are not falling apart. They are holding it together with whatever is left. In most cases that is humor, caffeine, and a complete refusal to pretend any of this is fine.

Slap it on your bumper and let it talk for you on the morning commute. Let it cruise through traffic in progressive cities, college towns, and suburban neighborhoods where the lawn signs are polite but the group chats are not. Let it live on someone's fridge in a shared apartment in a city they moved to because they could not afford to stay where they grew up.

Give it as a gift to the person who has held every protest sign and still woke up the next morning and went back to work.

Some things outlast the chaos that made them.