Keep Going

My name's Dawn, I'm a 28 year old social worker, survivor, and advocate. This blog is focused on recovery, self-care, and positivity. If you ever need someone to talk to, please feel free to message me! You’re also welcome to check out my Redbubble or buy me a Ko-fi! Personal blog is propertiesofamethyst.

[selfcarereminder]

you do not have to be productive to deserve rest. your worth has nothing to do with your output

[coffee-and-cusswords]

[guy who has been holding an insane amount of tension in his body for a week straight] bro why do I feel so awful

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

[measured-words]

Reblogging this three times in a row? Take a deep breath and take care of yourself!

[marianaaprendizsblog]

Reminder for tonight: you are allowed to be a work in progress and a masterpiece at the same time. Growth doesn't cancel out worth. You don't have to finish becoming who you're meant to be before you're allowed to be proud of how far you've come.

[akindplace]

you gotta look at all the bullshit life throws at you and still find a way not to bow down to the pressure of it, and to feel that life is still worth it, even if sometimes it is tragic, even if we’re all mortal and fragile and vulnerable. all of us are grieving something, but if you focus too much on your own grief you will stop noticing the good parts of life, like the love of those who are around you, those who care for you, and you will feel less and less joy. you can’t build a world out of your own grief because you will start to believe that is all you have and that suffering is all that life can offer to you.

[akindplace]

sometimes our suffering can feel so unbearable and that’s why the little joys you find in your day to day are so important. small joys will save you. they slowly build up to a life you feel content about. that treat will help you feel a little better, at the end of the day, doing things that make life a little easier for you can go a long way. you’re not weak for wanting things to be less heavy and for doing what you can to crawl out of your grieving. now go chase some small joys 🌱

[wholesome-suggestion]

you can always change. you realize that, right? if you feel stuck and stagnant, and you aren’t proud of who you are, you can change that. the world is not that serious and things are constantly growing and changing. i mean, think about it: the trees change every season; 4 times a year. you can do that, too. 

at any point, you can change and grow into someone you are proud of.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you will not feel stuck forever. you’re actually slowly but steadily moving forward in ways you don’t always notice.

[selfcarereminder]

the stuff you’ve been carrying quietly, the things you haven’t told anyone: that takes real strength. more than you give yourself credit for

[leebrontide]

I keep seeing posts claiming that x y or z action you can do to build a better world won’t matter. That capitalism doesn’t care, and your own actions dont amount to much.

It’s so painfully individualistic. Of course me doing that thing isn’t going to save anybody or anything.

Im not trying to be a superhero who personally saves the say.

I am one leaf making oxygen in a massive forest of other trees making oxygen. I am doing my best and having faith that millions of others will do their best as well.

Because that can and has made big changes over time. Like. That is just how change happens. Thats cultural shifts. Thats political shifts. Thats how lasting changes happen.

I don’t plant milkweed because I’m personally gonna save monarch butterflies. I plant milkweed because I know thousands of us are gonna plant milkweed and send money to the people fighting horrible pesticides in court.

The standard for change isn’t “is my doing this going to change the world?” The standard is “is my doing this part of the shift I want to see my community make?” And if the answer is yes, I do my best.

[susiephone]

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" — Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

[theeminentlyimpractical]

"Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." – The Optimism of Uncertainty, Howard Zinn

[cometwise]

Many times it's the ants' work that moves mountains

[ophelia-is-not-okay]

Might fuck around and start believing I am worthy of all the things i desire.

[scribeherself]

the art of making it matter

light a candle when you work. put on lipstick for the grocery store. play that song that makes you feel like you're in a coming-of-age montage. take the long way home. write love letters to no one. read poetry out loud to your plants. the secret isn't that life is inherently romantic—it's that you can MAKE it romantic by paying attention, by adding ceremony to the mundane, by refusing to let a single ordinary day pass unloved.

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

[get-up-try-again]

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You’re gonna be just fine.

[69shrimp]

why dont you make like a tree and feel the breeze and the sun and the changing of the seasons. and Grow

[purr-in-ink]

[minimalistquotes]

Be the person who still tries. After failure, after frustration, after disappointment, after exhaustion, after heartache, be the person who musters up the courage to believe that a new attempt can manifest a new outcome. Be the person who still tries.

[selfcarereminder]

you are enough. not ‘nearly enough with a few tweaks’. actually enough, exactly as you are right now