it's a long way to go

A self love journey. Always search for and find the beauty that is around you.

[loveyourlovelysoul]

Hi you and welcome here!

I'm lys and I opened this blog cause I needed a place to collect my thoughts about what I have been going through and what I'm learning, in order to understand everything and myself a bit more and try to heal.

Here you'll find: my posts about things I'm learning, my thoughts, my experiences, but also positive quotes and some other random stuff I'm interested into (books, music, learning languages and other similar things...)

Feel free to stop by and drop an ask if you need to vent about anything. Or share your opinion or experience, if you feel like. Or even share some things (images, songs, poems... anything) you find healing or nice, or help you go through your day. It'd be nice if we tried to help each other, don't you think?

We're all going through (and have been going through) a lot in our everyday life, I think the minimum we can do, is to try to lend an helping hand to someone else who probably right now cannot make it alone.

Please don’t hold back thinking “others are having it worse than me” cause your feelings are important too, it is not a competition, and if something is not making you feel good then you have to get it out of your chest and seek for a way to get better.

At the end of the day, we need to acknowledge our own persona and trauma or problem, and find a way to make ourselves feel better. Our own mental and physical health are the most important things ever.

Take care<3

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As said, I don't mind getting asks at all. Please send in whatever you want!

Just be mindful that if I'm not answering immediately is often because of me being in a different time zone than yours. Or having something to do that I cannot postpone. Don't ever think I'm not going to reply you or I am notconsidering you. That's not true.

This is not my main blog. You may find me writing to you Anonymously (and signing as @loveyourlovelysoul) or from @lysshome or @sayitalianohome. I'm also the owner of @psychelis-new, @sayitaliano and @sayitalianolearns.

You can find me also on TikTok @/lys.loveyourlovelysoul

Common # to navigate this blog:

#quotes #healing #life lessons #self love #relationships #friendships #recovery #family issues #parents #cptsd #anxiety #positivity #childhood trauma #letters to you #my story #languages

[perfectquote]

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

— Carlos Castaneda

[akindplace]

oh wow you’re not gonna believe this but turns out i was unnecessarily anxious for no reason. how unexpected

[akindplace]

who knew overthinking would only drag me down only for it to prove itself to be absolutely pointless

[1000-life-hacks]

[spraakentusiast]

*gutenberg.org

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[the-crying-bitch]

[cythraul]

This is you reminder that, even in Google's own Chrome, you can set the default search to DuckDuckGo.

[macsen-y-ceffyl]

Time to change search engine I guess.

I noticed yesterday when I was looking up the etymology of a word it gave me an ai answer instead of the usual word derivation and synonyms list (that has been present pre-ai). Useless. Beyond useless now.

[cosmogyros]

On Mac desktop, I just set my default search engine to DDG in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. It was effectively the same in each case:

Open the browser

Go to “settings” (either the three dots towards the upper right in Chrome, or in a dropdown menu from the top bar in Firefox and Opera)

Select (or search for) the phrase “Search engine”

Click “Change” (or similar) where it says “Google” and select “DuckDuckGo” instead

That’s it.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it’s scary but you have to

let people love you

accept help

do the hard thing and do it scared

let your growth be slow

[idlesuperstar]

Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough [b: 8th May 1926]

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

(I have made quite a lot of gifsets of this man over the years)

[loveyourlovelysoul]

please search "david attenborough" on google and enjoy

[perfectquote]

“You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Then just keep doing that every day.”

— Unknown

[emir-kctrk]

Cute sheep..

[occudo]

I tried drawing random animals from memory in 2 minutes (based on a spilled ink video) but at the elephant I realised I'm really not good at it :'D So I ended up redrawing them with references just to see the difference, and ended up spending way too much time on it.

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[callmezeemonic]

You did the best you could with all you had and knew. That was then. Here is now

[castaras]

prev tags correct

[adhdedrn]

[Image ID: Tags from @realblogbot: #you needed those years to get here #time spent growing isn't wasted #there's no rules and no right way to do this End Image ID.]

[the-power-of-forgiveness]

🌙 1. “The Letting Go Letter Ritual”

(for self or others)

There is something sacred about writing what you were never allowed to say.

Tonight, take a piece of paper and write a letter.

No filters. No politeness. No pretending you’re okay.

Write to the person who hurt you…

or write to yourself.

Say everything.

The anger.

The grief.

The confusion.

The love that still lingers.

When you’re done, read it out loud.

Then choose your release:

🔥 Burn it — and let the smoke carry your pain

🌊 Tear it — and release it piece by piece

🌙 Fold it — and keep it as a symbol of your healing

As you let it go, whisper:

“I release what no longer serves me. I choose peace over pain.”

You are not what happened to you.

You are what you choose to become after.

[paper-wounds]

[darkestmad-er]

Reminds me of a few people.. You're beautiful and deserve more ♥️

[purr-in-ink]

[scorpionlafemme]

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[icantbearsedtothinkofone]

Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.

[dduane]

Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)

[cangelala]

God I need this so bad for my Midterm so please let this work again for me.