It's dark inside

🌻Brylee.... 23 y/o🌻 Height 5'2 |Sw:180 lbs ~ Cw:140 lbs ~Gw1:135 ~ Gw2:130 ~ Gw3:120 ~ Gw4:110 ~ Gw5:100 lbs

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people think taking things literally is just like

not getting jokes and sarcasm

when in my experience it's more like

thinking you have to fulfill 100% of the exact requirements for something, when everyone else apparently knows it's actually a bit flexible

answering rhetorical questions and everyone thinking you're stupid

SAYING something with a literal meaning and others interpreting it figuratively

following instructions to a T but not knowing how to modify them if something goes wrong

wait that song was talking about WHAT??

doing EXACTLY what someone asked of you and them getting mad that it wasn't what they meant or actually wanted

being terrified of people's empty threats or hyperbole without realizing they didn't actually mean it

memorizing all the connotations of different words so you can use them as precisely as possible, getting frustrated when others are inexact

still not getting jokes and sarcasm

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat

german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

people today with access to more raw information than any other period: I won’t wear a cloth mask to stop a respiratory disease because a radio show host told me it makes you an emasculated cuck to follow scientific guidelines, and by god I need to eat at this shitty American fast food restaurant *dies a preventable, slow and painful death*

German plague doctor in 1646, who absolutely did not wash his ass: I will cover my eyes, my mouth, and mask the scents that I smell, I will coat my clothing in wax and examine patients from afar with a stick. I know not how the plague is spread, but if I block every transmission route, I can save myself and stave off the chance of being infected *does not die despite being knee deep in a vastly more contagious and hyperlethal disease*

[sciencebelongstoallofus]

Maki Naro @ The Nib

[perfectquote]

“When other people treat you poorly keep being you. Don’t ever let someone else’s bitterness change the person you are.”

— Unknown

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“Actions always prove why words mean nothing.”

— Unknown

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“Don’t sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free.”

— Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

[mycptsdstory]

I love this!

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[Video description: A tiktok from @/newenglandandsage. A man dressed for cold weather walks through snow covered woods while talking.

The dialogue reads as follows (any relevant visuals will be included in parentheses):

“So it’s time to stop asking what you’re gonna do with your life, and it’s time to start asking where you’re going to do your life. (The man looks at the camera with an intense expression and zooms in as he says this.) Since childhood, most of us have been raised to consider what it is that we want to do or what it is that we’ll be successful doing, and then we just assume that the ‘where’ is just gonna fall into place, completely silent on the fact that the ‘what’ might be less important for us than the ‘where’ or the ‘with whom.’ (The main again looks at the camera with an intense expression.) Maybe living close to family is a value that you hold dear, in which case I might recommend you don’t move far away to take that job. Or maybe you’re like me, and you know you need to live somewhere near all this (he pans the camera around to showcase the snow and trees) that you can walk around all the time in which case I’m not gonna move to a major city no matter how good the job is. Now I’m not arguing that we just do away with the ‘what’ entirely, I’m just asking you to start elevating ‘where’ and ‘with whom’ to the same playing field as ‘what’ when you consider your balanced life. Happiness might be hiding somewhere else.”

End Description]

[perfectquote]

“You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.”

— Osho (via nightlyquotes)

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“Close the door. Remove the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”

— Paulo Coelho

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“You don’t gain anything from stressing. Remember that.”

— Unknown

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“Everything heals. Your body heals. Your heart heals. The mind heals. Wounds heal. Your soul repairs itself. Your happiness is always going to come back. Bad times don’t last.”

— Christiana Rutkowski

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“You can start over today. Right in this minute. It doesn’t have to be a monday or a new year to recreate yourself.”

— Unknown

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“Small steps every day.”

— Unknown

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“When life changes to being harder change yourself to being stronger.”

— Unknown

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“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

[studentlifeproblems]

[perfectquote]

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

— Jennifer Peepas