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Good things take time.

Traveling was my number one priority for years, but I am finally coming to a point in my life where I feel grounded. Where I have a place to call home. A few places, really. My path to a career, the company of my elders, the arms of my boyfriend… I’m finally finding reasons to stay instead of reasons to leave.

I am by no means running away from the opportunity of travel. But I am slowing down to admire the flowers that grow in my own garden for a while.

Good things come in time. But great things are right now. Dream big, dream long and far, courageously and outrageously. But also understand that some of the best journeys occur in your very backyard. The world is your oyster, filled with pearls a many. Some are near and some are far but that doesn’t affect their luster.

capriciouslypersonal

Looking at old posts from my other blog and I still really dig this. I wish I knew how long ago I posted this. I actually have traveled nationally a handful of times with my SO now. Florida, Oregon, California twice, Colorado like five times... but last year hit us both really hard. We lost things that have completely knocked our world upside down. We are trying to gather the pieces that are left as we share a tiny room under my parents roof and by default that means, no traveling. I hadn’t felt myself, I had gained a lot of weight from depression, slept all the hours I wasn’t working and still called in to not face the world outside my room, I only showered 1-2 times a week, barely hanging on to life depressed.

Well, I still can’t travel because I’m in a financial bind, but I do want to say I had finally decided to start standing up to my own sadness. I started back up to the gym, I eat more salad, I have lost 12 of the pounds I’d gained, I returned to school and I’m fighting this summer for the chance to return next semester (damn that financial bind), I go to the park and enjoy the sun and the flowers, we are planning a day trip to the beach... I’m doing better. After a long time of feeling miserable at best and seriously contemplating whether I even want to continue this life, I just want to say I’m doing better.

cutegorl

You deserve love. You deserve good energy. You deserve to be surrounded by people who love you. You deserve to love who you are. You deserve to be at peace.

socially-insecure

thatbooknerdy

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

My sun, my moon, all the stars in my sky. My light in the gloom, my warmth in the bright. My motivation, my muse. Everything I look forward too. Cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with you. 🌹

codeinequeeeen-deactivated20161

IF YOU AINT SUCKING HIS DICK WHILE HES DRIVING THEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Getting home safely

catching pokemans

Sometimes love does not end with goodbye. It just ends.

aribcagesymphony (via wnq-writers)

cherryberryann

peachpiefuckingangeldeath-deact

this was so cute lma o and made me giggle

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This makes me happy haha

pocketofpockey

“Oh shoot you guys okay?” Fave

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wittyusernamed

My buddy read an article about octopus intelligence. It was feeding time, and the handler dumped some shrimp into an octopus’ tank. Then he went into another room and sat at his desk.

A while later, a shrimp was tossed onto his desk.

The octopus, upon finding one bad shrimp in the lot, had grabbed it, escaped its tank, crossed the hall, and threw the expired shrimp at its caretaker. Not only does this showcase their problem-solving capabilities, but also that it could have escaped at any time. It just broke out this time to chuck an off shrimp in indignation at its handler. That’s not just intelligence, that’s a human-like reaction. Kinda make you wonder exactly how smart these guys can be…

rocketxsurgeon

OH MY GOD

teaandtime

I went to the aquarium once and we had a tour and we walked past the octopus tank and it was duct taped shut so I asked why and the guy was like. “Well, we had a problem before because these fish were disappearing randomly at night and we had no idea why. Turns out the octopus had memorised the night guards rounds and would creep out of its tank, crawl across the floor to the fish tank, have a little snack and be back in its own tank with the lid shut before the guard came back.” they are super smart

manynamedshe

I love octopuses so, so much.

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

@_@

I am both delighted and FUCKING TERRIFIED.

vin-goghsts

Once I went to the aquarium where they had a baby pacific red octopus in a tank. I had gone there to work on a few real life sketches, obviously I wanted to do one of an octopus. So I kinda just kneeled in front of the tank, and started sketching. The octopus didn’t mind, he sat happily. Then, 5 minutes later, he started moving to the front of the tank, where I was. This tiny octopus faces me directly and starts posing. I don’t know how other to explain it but he started curlung his tentacles in this really graceful way then wouldn’t move for a few minutes. Then again, a new pose. That tiny cute motherfucker knew I was drawing him.