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— Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
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“When you are depressed and anxious your comfort zone tends to shrink from the size of a world to the size of a bed. Or right down to nothing at all.”
— Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
How to Live - a list by Matt Haig
How to live (forty pieces of advice I feel to be helpful but which I don’t always follow)
1. Appreciate happiness when it is there
2. Sip, don’t gulp.
3. Be gentle with yourself. Work less. Sleep more.
4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That’s basic physics.
5. Beware of Tuesdays. And Octobers.
6. Kurt Vonnegut was right. “Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.”
7. Listen more than you talk.
8. Don’t feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.
9. Be aware that you are breathing.
10. Wherever you are, at any moment, try to find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.
11. Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.
12. Go for a run. Then do some yoga.
13. Shower before noon.
14. Look at the sky. Remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity, in order to see the smallness of yourself.
15. Be kind.
16. Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
17. Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing and why you are doing it. Don’t value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.
18. Sit down. Lie down. Be still. Do nothing. Observe. Listen to your mind. Let it do what it does without judging it. Let it go, like Snow Queen in Frozen.
19. Don’t’ worry about things that probably won’t happen.
20. Look at trees. Be near trees. Plant trees. (Trees are great.)
21. Listen to that yoga instructor on YouTube, and “walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”.
22. Live. Love. Let go. The three Ls.
23. Alcohol maths. Wine multiplies itself by itself. The more you have, the more you are likely to have. And if it is hard to stop at one glass, it will be impossible at three. Addition is multiplication.
24. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.
25. Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don’t wish for it to end, or for it to never end.
26. No drug in the universe will make you feel better, at the deepest level, than being kind to other people.
27. Listen to what Hamlet – literature’s most famous depressive – told Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
28. If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.
29. You don’t need the world to understand you. It’s fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven’t experienced. Some will. Be grateful.
30. Jules Verne wrote of the “Living Infinite”. This is the world of love and emotion that is like a “sea”. If we can submerge ourselves in it, we find infinity in ourselves, and the space we need to survive.
31. Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.
32. Remember that there is nothing weird about you. You are just a human, and everything you do and feel is a natural thing, because we are natural animals. You are nature. You are a hominid ape. You are in the world and the world is in you. Everything connects.
33. Don’t believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or ups and down. At your lowest and your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.
34. Don’t worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.
35. Be transparent to yourself. Make a greenhouse for your mind. Observe.
36. Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Green. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.
37. If the sun is shining, and you can be outside, be outside.
38. Remember that the key thing about life on earth is change. Cars rust. Paper yellows. Technology dates. Caterpillars become butterflies. Nights morph into days. Depression lifts.
39. Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.
40. Be brave. Be strong. Breathe, and keep going. You will thank yourself later.
10 Underrated Self Care Things To Do:
Tidy up your bedroom
Change your whole outfit - underwear, shoes, hairstyle, the lot
Scribble with a Crayon as hard as you can on a big sheet of paper
Go to a library and wander around in the quiet
Make a wish list on each of your favorites shops’ websites
Go to sleep as early as you can bare
Play the “would you rather?” game with a friend
Talk to your sibling(s), see what they’re up to
Sit down and study for a bit, then see how you feel
Open a window, sit next to it and smell the fresh air
Feel free to add to this list!
11. Laugh until your sides hurt
12. Create playlist after playlist on Spotify for every one of your moods
13. Write a list of everything that makes you smile
14. Cuddle with an animal
15. Dye your hair a new fun color
16. Listen to your close friends advice
17. Learn something new that interests you, and study that subject until your a pro
18. Smell every rose you pass
19. Wear what you are comfortable in, ignore anyone who tells you different.
20. Do what you love to do.
Ya se q estamos todos tristes acá pero no les parece q estaría bueno compartir amor en vez de mensajes recontra tóxicos eee hijos de la mierda
💖tengan un lindo día💖
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A veces miro mi patio e imagino que después de largos meses, logramos juntarnos en casa, aunque vivimos en diferentes partes de buenos aires finalmente logramos estar todos. Tengo tan adentro los recuerdos de esos ranchos que mientras observó el patio vacio puedo sentirlos ahí, riéndose de cualquiera, fumando y dejando el culito de la birra. Puedo escucharlos, Me das cedas? Me das tabaco? Me das una risa? Me das un abrazo? nos ponemos de acuerdo de que tenemos frío y entramos a la casa, el parlante suena y no se queda sin batería, mientras los chicos se fueron a comprar más tabaco se armó un baile improvisado en la cocina con nuestra playlist de fondo, los chicos vuelven justo cuando estábamos en medio de un estalle de risa del cual olvidamos origen, aunque no entienden se unen y bailan tambien. Boludo, cuando apareció Nachito?
Chicos Hay Bajón. Comamos bajon. Silencio. Risas. Ñumñum q ricas las galletitas.
Qué ricos esos ranchos.