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gentle reminder that if u feel like time is flying by, note down all the good things that happened to you in the previous month. it might not seem like much but it really does ground you and make you realise just how many things you got to experience. in a day and age where we lose most of our time to technology, we sometimes unintentionally merge days together. sit down, reflect. you’ll be surprised at how much you remember and how warm and fuzzy those memories make you feel.

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Baby can do a little a cocaine, as a treat

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what are your twenties if not an endless string of the ghosts of who you thought you would become

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Anyway that’s why you wear wool and a life jacket babeeeyyyy

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The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.

Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.

If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.

Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.

In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.

What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.

In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.

In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.

If you’re allergic to wool, synthetics are available specifically for this purpose. I know I always say natural fibers are the way to go, but when it comes to safety, wear what protects you!

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Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!

To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!

Again, both are only possible when wearing a life jacket!

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I know a lot of people are reblogging this for writing reference, but I like to believe that 7,000 people on this site were actually continually living in fear about this specific situation and that when the time comes, I’ve prepared them with what they need to know to survive.

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The only correct way to propose

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current mood:

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it’s always the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, but never the Irritating Ordeal of Being Known

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someone: [correctly infers something about my personality based on my patterns of behavior]

me: [seethes with rage for some fucking reason]

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this gets so much funnier when you consider that people literally just live on mount everest, there's a perfect parallel between random europeans "discovering" a mountain that people already live on and medical professionals suddenly discovering autism despite people having it going back god knows how long

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Sorry I didn’t get back to you it’s just that I’m completely unfit for human interaction.

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shoutout to the boom guy wearing pink shorts in the set of the mandalorian in homage to the og pink shorts boom guy who wore them during the production of a new hope. i want him to know i love him very very much