J. @jenny-by-design - Tumblr Blog

Enough things have happened. No more things for a while. Thank you.

i hate you drank less water headache i hate you slept too little headache i hate you slept too much headache i hate you too stressed out to function headache i hate you forgot to eat headache i hate you excessive screen time headache i hate you cried too much headache i hate you exercised too little headache i hate you no reason headache i hate you

wellwaterhysteria

if i don’t get to speak in hyperbole (which is my greatest joy in life) literally every single day i will explode and die.

brightwanderer

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.