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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
[ Text ID: I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. ]
I feel like I’m having a stroke
I’m so angry and tired of how ads are in every little thing, part of every waking moment of our lives. I hate that there’s gas pumps with TVs in them just to blast ads while you fucking pump GAS and their speaker systems blast ads in commercials between elevator music.
I am tired of how facebook jumped on the unskippable ad train and you can’t look at any kind of minute+ long video with ads everywhere. YouTube is just fucked and has been for years. Scrollable ads on our dashboards and news feeds on other social media, ads ads ads. Not to mention the ads we see in passing in our daily lives in stores, on the road, TV, Radio. It is absolutely inescapable, unless you pay some services to not see this shit.
So yeah maybe this shit is why we aren’t trying to be ‘fake woke’ or whatever it is about the ‘yuo r not imune 2 propganda’ meme, we are just tired of seeing this shit so much even if it’s employees running corporate accounts for ha ha funny clapbacks, we are absolutely at our breaking point with this fucking corporate hell hole nightmare clown world.
can you imagine a world with minimal or no advertising? The visual and mental peace and quiet of that?
“god why are so many people getting diagnosed with adhd, autism and other words i cant pronounce.. must be snowflakes!”
No, the world is just that much louder now and people who would have gotten a pass before are being pushed into breakdown as every-fucking- thing around us screams for our attention
the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!
it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.
and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.
making things have improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.
take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.
For folks making new year’s resolutions, this is an excellent category to make some in. Nothing really compares to starting small but practicing till you have the confidence to turn out a finished product that’s just how you wanted it!
I would love it if some of my followers took this advice to heart and then tagged me with posts about their hobbies.
Seriously, getting involved in and excited about something tangible is SO important for mental health. You meet new people, you engage in a skill, and when you finish something that you’re proud of there is a HUGE boost to your self confidence and happiness.
And learning something keeps your mind young and active. Don’t let your brain basically atrophy from disuse.
So many of us are scared to learn something new because we will suck at it, we won’t be pros immediately so what’s the point? What’s the point at all when so many people are better at it than me? And of course I could say the usual shtick about how everyone started somewhere once, and blah blah, BUT! Learning and failing can be very good for your mental health, too. I know, right? But learning to accept failure and reward yourself for small improvements is so important.
And when you do figure out that bit that was difficult, or finally get a bit right that’s taken so many tries, that success is so much sweeter than if you did it right first go.
Try a bunch of stuff! You may end up finding you really like something you would have never thought to try, or you might branch off from a hobby you thought you would enjoy and get involved in something related but not the same. There are hobbies and skills out there that most of us have never heard of, but people are out there doing them and keeping them alive.
Finally, having a hobby that you involve yourself in (for you, not for the glory of winning trophies or being popular) makes you a far more interesting and agreeable person. I know I adore when someone goes off on a tangent about something they are passionate about. I want to hear people talk about their weird specialist knowledge of the thing they are into! It can tell you so much about a person. But it also tells you they can commit to something, that they can dedicate themselves to learning, that they can accept failure and grow from it, and much more.
Seriously, if you’re depressed, if you’re bipolar or have ADHD or are just not neurotypical in any way (and if you are!) go and find yourself a hobby and get involved. It’s not a cure. Nothing is a cure. But it can be a bright spark in an otherwise dark and lonely tunnel.
I ususally don’t reblog stuff like this but this rings so true.
I started knitting and crocheting because it connected me to my grandmother and it helped me refocus and not loose myself in the dark hole that opened up when my grandparents died.
To this day working with my hands keeps me grounded. Knitting, crocheting, stitching or just painting by numbers. Focusing on a pattern, a design or colour-combination helps me redirect certain thoughts.
It’s not a cure-all but it helps.
And feel free, to tag me when you share progression photos or finished projects.
why iphones gotta take two million years to turn back on after they die like you plug em in and you’re all ready to start texting again but they’re like “nope. i gotta take some time for myself. figure out who i am. you hurt me too much the last time. let me think.”
“I dare you to burn holes into me; I will bleed love and kindness from all of them, and you will drown in the things you tried to end in me.”
— Believe it, Eliot Knight
me (to my cricket gf): babe.. do you still love me?
cricket gf: *cricket sounds*
me: is that yes in cricket language or awkward silence
Killed it 🎵🎵🎵 IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamezinma/
Oh shit she bodied it
Moss Graffiti: A How To Guide
are you fucking for real
Imagine being the criminal who returns weekly to make sure his fucking plant art is doing alright
Later
I found it! I fucking found it! In my fucking dash! Nothing can stop me now! *EVIL GIGGLES*
OMG SAME RIGHT I SAW IT A YEAR AGO AND WAS UPSET I COULDNT FIND IT AGAIN
Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can’t destroy yourself for the sake of someone else. You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful — you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself.
Daniell Koepke
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I want to do that ! I want to believe that
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your dog needs meat and your kids need vaccines. end of discussion.
Also your dog needs vaccines and your kids need meat.
Also your meat needs vaccines and your kids need dogs.
what these are all true
start of a comic i am doing. it might be a big one, since i’ve not felt so sure of a feeling for so long in a while, even if it’s a little negative.
Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via bookmania)