Procrastinating since '97

Sarah (she/her) infp | MA anthropology | Often dreaming

[shisasan]

16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[velvetcloak]

[naramdil]

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

[thewhimsicalarchives]

To all my girls who feel like they’ve hit rock bottom, there’s nothing stronger to push you forward than yourself and your perseverance.

[caffeinated-workspace]

THIS

[ri5k]

i’m giving up personhood to become a full-time abstract concept

[lifeinpoetry]

I am, in most parts, made / entirely of longing.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya

[victoriaelyse]

[admitier]

[ID: A poem by Mary Oliver entitled "I worried".

It reads, "I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers / flow in the right direction, will the earth turn / as it was taught, and if not how shall / I correct it? / / Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, / can I do better? / / Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows / can do it and I am, well, / hopeless. / / Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, / am I going to get rheumatism, / lockjaw, dementia? / / Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. / And gave it up. And took my old body / and went out into the morning, / and sang." End ID.]

[lamignonette]

[yana-marie]

how can i ever complain about anything when this is my way to work

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[caffeinated-workspace]

i'm in love with anything kind and soft and sunny and bright

[mournfulroses]

Christa Wolf, from her essay collection titled "One Day a Year: 1960–2000," originally published in 2003

[edithbeans]

An ode to Mary Oliver

[3rabbit]

[barefootonfirstsnow]

Bookstores and seashores

[foreverjeans]

language learning is such a personal thing that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of doing it. it’s whatever works on bringing YOU closer to YOUR goal.

you want to watch tv shows but don’t really care for speaking with others? yay!! no speaking practice needed.

you want to learn quickly for an upcoming trip? yay! text book phrases and simple grammar.

you’re a beginner and it’s been 10 years? 2 weeks? 6 months? it doesn’t matter. as long as you are working towards bringing YOURSELF closer to what YOU want to achieve, you have succeeded: you are succeeding; you are doing great.

i find that so much demotivation comes from comparison and/or trying to follow other's advice too closely. if anki decks don't work for you, that's fine! if duolingo works well for you, then use it!

this language learning thing, it should be enjoyed. in the sea full of deceptive polyglot stories and videos on top of videos attempting to understand how to learn languages in "the fastest way possible" sometimes we should sit back and ask ourselves, "when is just learning things, enough"?

with that i hope you all continue working towards your dreams! whether you want to become a translator or just watch a few more movies in your target language, you can do it. i know you have it in you.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

I am a collection of my personal “what ifs” trying to be “this is how”