[theglasschild]

How To Ruin Your Life

Stay in one place your whole life. Always order vanilla even though the menu is four pages long. Become the type of person who sends back lattes. Save up your money for a plasma TV instead of a plane ticket. Talk a lot about things you know nothing about. Have an affair with someone you don’t even find attractive.

Refuse to forget your ex. Make it impossible for yourself to do anything without remembering that you used to do it with them. Hug your knees under the sheets and think about how safe you felt when they held you at night. Remind yourself daily of how empty you feel. Find new ways to make yourself sad.

Get drunk all the time. Consider no Saturday night, national holiday or extended happy hour complete without a vodka-induced breakdown. Graduate college but keep drinking like you’re still in it. Notice that cheap beer tastes watery and stale when you drink it alone but drink it anyway. Look at old Facebook photos wasted and wonder where everyone went.

Never drink. Never do anything that could potentially be “bad” for you. Treat your body like the temple it is and say no to carbs, yes to wheatgrass, go to bed at ten sharp and turn down cake on your birthday. Take fifteen different dietary supplements. Monitor carefully. Succumb to nothing. Miss out on everything.

Compare yourself constantly, to everyone. Allow the standards of image-obsessed, age-obsessed culture to make you feel decrepit at 25. Scroll through skinny girls on Tumblr feeling wistful and inadequate. Pull at the skin on your hipbones, stomach, and underarms in the mirror. Sigh a lot. Sigh all the time.

Don’t fall in love with anyone or anything. Put an impenetrable wall between yourself and other people. Add a fire-breathing dragon and eight yards of barbed wire. Be suspicious of everyone’s motives. Hold grudges long after you’ve forgotten what for.

Fall in love with everyone and everything. Run after the next best thing like it’s a bus you’re perpetually late for. Throw your heart into every other stranger’s hands and be genuinely surprised to be hurt. Refuse to learn. Refuse to ever learn.

[de-la-poussey-deactivated201812]

things my parents never discussed with me

Save 10% of each check and put it into your savings. Living paycheck to paycheck will never keep you ahead of the game.

If you’re undecided about a career, pickup a trade or work your way up the ladder at your job. Do not continue to work in the same position for more than 2-3 years.

Seek therapy for your issues instead of self medicating with casual sex or drugs, venting to your friends constantly, becoming antisocial or co-dependant on someone. It’s not healthy.

If you’re not receiving the same energy you put into a friendship or relationship, leave. You are not a doormat.

*feel free to share*

[conformity2pt0]

[conformity2pt0]

[nemfrog]

Recreation and camping areas in California. Ford treasury of station wagon living. 1957-58.

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[caughtthefox]

15 facts about people with concealed anxiety

1. They don’t hide their anxiety, they hide their symptoms. To have concealed anxiety isn’t to deny having it – only to do everything in your power to ensure other people don’t see you struggle.

2. They have the most anxiety about having anxiety. Because they are not comfortable letting people see them in the throes of an irrational panic, the most anxiety-inducing idea is… whether or not they’ll have anxiety at any given moment in time.

3. They come across as a paradoxical mix of outgoing but introverted, very social but rarely out. It is not that they are anti-social, just that they can only take being around others incrementally (which is mostly normal). Yet, on the surface, this may come across as confusing.

4. They make situations worse by trying to suppress their feelings about them. They are extremely uncomfortable with other people seeing them in pain, and they don’t want to feel pitied or as though they are compromising anyone’s time. Yet, they make things worse for themselves by suppressing, as it actually funnels a ton of energy into making the problem larger and more present than it already was.

5. They are often hyper-aware and highly intuitive. Anxiousness is an evolutionary function that essentially keeps us alive by making us aware of our surroundings and other people’s motives. It’s only uncomfortable when we don’t know how to manage it effectively – the positive side is that it makes you hyper-conscious of what’s going on around you.

6. Their deepest triggers are usually social situations. It’s not that they feel anxious in an airplane, it’s that they feel anxious in an airplane and are stuck around 50 other people. It’s not that they will fail a test, but that they will fail a test and everyone in school will find out and think they are incompetent and their parents will be disappointed. It’s not that they will lose love, but that they will lose love and nobody will ever love them again.

7. It is not always just a “panicked feeling” they have to hide. It can also be a tendency to worry, catastrophizing, etc. The battle is often (always?) between competing thoughts in their minds.

8. They are deep thinkers, and great problem-solvers. One of the benefits of anxiety is that it leads you to considering every worst case scenario, and then subsequently, how to handle or respond to each.

9. They are almost always “self-regulating” their thoughts. They’re talking themselves in, out, around, up or down from something or another very often, and increasingly so in public places.

10. They don’t trust easily, but they will convince you that they do. They want to make the people around them feel loved and accepted as it eases their anxiety in a way.

11. They tend to desire control in other areas of their lives. They’re over-workers or are manically particular about how they dress or can’t really seem to let go of relationships if it wasn’t their idea to end them.

12. They have all-or-nothing personalities, which is what creates the anxiety. Despite being so extreme, they are highly indecisive. They try to “figure out” whether or not something is right before they actually try to do it.

13. They assume they are disliked. While this is often stressful, it often keeps them humble and grounded at the same time.

14. They are very driven (they care about the outcome of things). They are in equal proportions as in control of their lives as they feel out of control of their lives – this is because they so frequently try to compensate for fear of the unknown.

15. They are very smart, but doubt it. A high intelligence is linked to increased anxiety (and being doubtful of one’s mental capacity are linked to both).

http://neverignore.info/15-things-you-need-to-know-about-people-who-have-concealed-anxiety/

[wafflesforamerica-deactivated20]

Also I do not understand what “biscuits” are in the UK. Cookie? Cracker? Actual biscuit? Idk?

[saaav-deactivated20161101]

I think cookies. @automatictrifle ?

[alefist-deactivated20160410]

Yeah cookies like a million varieties

[fr0g-queen-deactivated20240709]

They’re all called Kekse in german so I always get confused by cookies vs. Biscuits. (Except for crackers, they are called cracker here too).

[frontalbread-deactivated2021071]

They are what Americans would call cookies, but they are a full category of treat (and cookies are a specific type of biscuit).

Biscuit actually translates to “baked twice” which is how traditional biscuits are more crunchy, so technically they have to be baked twice to be a biscuit.

There is also the difference between cakes and biscuits that was made official over jaffa cakes. Biscuits go soft when stale, cakes go hard.

The reason why we go have the catergory for biscuits is because taxation laws from different types of food been taxed different based on whether they are a luxury.

And crackers are just crackers, unless served with cheese, then they are amazing.

[deartreadmill]

So… which specific biscuits are cookies?

[frontalbread-deactivated2021071]

As labelled above.  “In most English-speaking countries except for the US and Canada, crisp cookies are called biscuits.“ Basically, you are the only ones in the world that call all biscuits cookies. Generally, cookies are chewier biscuits, as cookie is derived from the dutch word meaning ‘little cake’.

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

Sooooo… What do you call USA biscuits, then?? You know, the kind you get at KFC with chicken or have at breakfast with gravy?

[thatroxiegirl]

Iirc your biscuits were basically what we call scones, but slightly more savory.

(Australian weighing in, but we’re pretty similar to the Brits when naming foodstuffs)

[epicdistraction]

the only people that have biscuits and gravy are people in the South… If you ask for that in the North you will get a weird look (because its not even on the menu up here) fun fact about the US.

[wafflesforamerica-deactivated20]

More prevalent, yeah- but I’ve had biscuits and gravy at probably 6+ restaurants in Minnesota/Wisconsin. Maybe it’s not a thing on the coasts, but it’s not just a southern thing.

Also I regret this post immensely. Damn my curiosity.

[conformity2pt0]

I get biscuits and gravy in Washington state all the time, there's this place in my city that does a chorizo gravy its fucking amazing.

[pro-trash-monster]

Gonna actually add in some accessory work to squats this next run through the cycle. Gonna add fronts in twice a week and good mornings one day and RDLs one day. See how that changes things.

[conformity2pt0]

I've had a lot of success running front squat cycles when my back squat stalls.

[ideokinesis-deactivated20191229]

School canceled for inclement weather.

But like, can I still come in to lift or nah?

[conformity2pt0]

Do you have the keys? Forgiveness>Permission

[ideokinesis-deactivated20191229]

My roommate said he didn’t care what we watched, so I put on Brooklyn 99.

He talked over it the entire time and I heard none of the jokes.

Then he said that he didn’t like Brooklyn 99, and he’d rather watch Big Bang Theory.

BBT wasn’t on, but he said he also liked Modern Family, so I put that on.

He complained that it was gay, and started watching The Revenant on his computer, just sitting there.

So now we are watching a low-def pirated copy of The Revenant.

[panda-lifts-things]

your roommate reminds me why I live alone

[ideokinesis-deactivated20191229]

Now he’s in the kitchen running MY blender over the dialogue. OKAY

[panda-lifts-things]

Is there a timeline of when you two are no longer living together?

[ideokinesis-deactivated20191229]

He doesn’t know it, but if he hasn’t left by summer, the time out year lease ends and it goes to month-to-month, I’m kicking him out. I’ve already told our landlord. And if he gives me a reason to call the cops sooner (I won’t go into it but I’ve had reasons), I will call the cops and demand he leave the next day, immediately.

[panda-lifts-things]

Keep yourself safe since he seems like a sketchy dude.  And may the summer come quickly!!!

[ideokinesis-deactivated20191229]

Thanks, amigo. I’m watching my back!

[conformity2pt0]

The Revenant is fucking beautiful totally worth paying to see in theatre for the cinematography.

[thechurchofbobsaget-deactivated]

Johnny Walker blue isn’t even that good. For less than half the price go buy yourself a bottle of Lagavulin which tastes 20x better. 

[conformity2pt0]

Disagree but rebloging for the rec

[sociallyawkwardbuffguy]

Rep stuff

[putthatazztowork-deactivated202]

What kind of articles do you guys wanna see on my website?

Let me know wha you’d like to see me write about, or questions you’d like me to answer!

[conformity2pt0]

I'm looking for bodybuilding exercises that specifically address the weaknesses/imbalances left by exclusively doing the Olympic lifts.

[kryptoniangradegains-deactivate]

We’re at this weird point in the fitness industry where we have more knowledge and science than 50 years ago but the old habits and generations don’t want to admit they’re wrong and the new wave now is still trying to understand a lot of the science and studies and that knowledge is so accessible that anyobe can have it (good) but doesnt know how to apply it (bad) and those older generations refuse to let bad habits die.

What a time folks.

[conformity2pt0]

That generation still thinks eggs are bad for you.

[micro-human-deactivated20160911]

hey. other people with bad skin

let’s take a pact to be nice to ourselves

absolutely no touching our face

especially no picking

if you’re going to exfoliate, do it only twice a week and do it gently

if you have dry skin, gently rub a dry washcloth in a circular motion on afflicted area

take your makeup off before working out (or before sleeping)

wash your face after working out

pat your skin dry, don’t wipe or rub

use moisturizer after washing (one with a lil SPF is better)

try to wash your makeup brushes once a week

try to wash your pillowcases once a week 

okay team let’s do this

[brittanysbabbles-deactivated202]

Muslin cloths work great for dry skin btw. Less irritating than regular washcloths!

Also, I swear by changing my pillowcase nightly especially if you don’t wash your hair regularly.

These are all wonderful tips though. 😊

[conformity2pt0]

The dry washcloths get the flakes off? Wash your face like right away at the gym or after you get home?

[calltheset]

Every time I see a puppy under 16 weeks in public I’m like “it’s gonna get parvo.”

Ruined for life.

[conformity2pt0]

I didn't know this was a thing when I had my first puppy all I heard was you have to socialize them early, if you don't have them meet as many people and dogs as possible right away they'll never like them.