J. Sevick

Writer, sometimes. Nerd, always. Writing Memes and Aesthetic Posts. Jaimie - 34 - She/her. Header credit: Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash

[geekysteven]

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: polly.florence

[keikomivra]

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) + TUMBLR REACTIONS

[sickfictropes]

when the hurt meets the comfort

[mithrandirl]

MURDERBOT | 1.01 Free Commerce

[jsevick]

Me when coworkers try to chit chat.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Cozy reading nooks 🤎📚

[thehappysorceress]

Goals.

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 02. jake peralta and amy santiago - brooklyn nine nine

[hopepunk-humanity]

You’ve heard of “don’t monetize your hobbies”; get ready for "don’t master your hobbies".

Your hobbies are here to help you decompress and have fun. They do not have to be disciplines you toil over for expertise, unless that is something you genuinely enjoy doing.

It’s okay to enjoy language-learning without ever becoming fluent, or even conversational. It’s okay to like playing guitar even if you only know a few clumsy songs. You can read books and never finish them, bowl without ever scoring even halfway to perfect. We’re here to explore and play, and we cannot do that if we’re chasing perfection in everything we do.

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: talesbytheshire

[rogers-carter]

Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan and Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell THE MUMMY 1999 | dir. Stephen Sommers

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: co.nfused

[nat-20s]

"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess

[jsevick]

[voidrambles-deactivated20240306]

idk who else needs to hear this but stop being so scared of failure and imperfection that you don't even do anything in the first place. nothing rewarding ever comes easy. allow yourself to explore for christ's sake

[evilwriter37]

There are two things my therapist made me write down as affirmations for combatting my perfectionism, and I think this is the perfect post to share them on:

“I reserve the right to be wrong and for it to not be a failure.”

“I will allow myself the satisfaction of trying.”

Allowing myself to try was huge in actually enjoying my hobbies and craft. You’re going to mess up and be wrong sometimes, but that is okay. Keep going anyway. You’ll learn to enjoy the process and not just the finished piece.

[the-haiku-bot]

“I reserve the right

to be wrong and for it to

not be a failure.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[twinprime]

we have to bring back art deco like right now

[twinprime]

we need more of this.

[hybridcalisthenics]

You don't have to feel shame in order to improve.

It's okay to identify flaws and weaknesses.

However, I've felt that I thrive best in the "Goldilocks Zone" where I'm aware of my shortcomings yet confident enough to keep exploring.

Self-awareness is good, but try not to be too hard on yourself! That can sometimes impede your growth.

[jsevick]

Sorry to rant all over a lovely post but this is so, so important and a huge key to something I'm going through right now. Maybe it could help someone out there too.

I'm trying to "change my life" for a lot of different personal reasons, and it's involved going to therapy and reading a ton of books and trying to absorb the many helpful posts from others going through similar things. But one thing I realized is that a lot of my anxiety is coming from deep insecurity. So beating myself up about all the ways I needed to change was only making it worse.

Until I realized that I didn't need to change. I just needed to change how I was interacting with the world and how much (or in my case, how little) I was sharing myself with it.

As cheesy as it is, I started telling myself (paraphrased from a story in Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach):

Don't change. I forgive you [for all the ways anxiety has fucked up my life]. I love you just the way you are.

And it's still early but... it's starting to work? I signed up to volunteer and take an in-person class and I'm planning to go to a book club at a library with strangers and for me that's... a lot. I am so far from perfect but giving myself that love and acceptance to stay myself but also make changes to my life has been really helpful.

Change doesn't have to come from a hatred of your current self. It can come from loving your current self so much you want to learn how to share it or make it healthier or be truer to it. Change without shame.

[thesmegalodon]

“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time

[qthewhatever]

"bigger idiots than me have done it" is a phrase I live by

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