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How to be happy

You know that tape that plays in the back of your head when you’re falling asleep? Maybe its a breakup, or a fight with your mom, or that time the kid across the room caught you picking your nose in sixth grade.

I want you to film over that tape with a moment that hasn’t happened yet. I want you to think about all the things that are the opposite of that. Being a rockstar and flying, and what you wanted to be when you were little. And make a movie in your head and live in that movie like you did when you were five and you thought about what it would be like to be a grown up.

Play that movie. Hold onto that moment, and every time you catch footage from the old tape rolling, film over it again. Force it if you have to. And most importantly, want it harder than you want to fix what’s already happened. And I’ll tell you from experience it sounds cheesy and it feels like lying at first, but the more you do it and the harder you want it to be true, the easier it gets.

#happy #wanting #mindfulness #mental things

It's been a while since I've posted anything new, but here's a little bit of the latest piece I've been working on. . . . #wip #workinprogress #newpiece #newart #art #artist #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #canvas #canvaspainting #paint #painting #acrylic #acrylicpaint

#paint #painting #artistsoninstagram #canvas #newart #artist #acrylicpaint #art #canvaspainting #workinprogress #acrylic #newpiece #artistsofinstagram #wip

Step one: admit that it scares the shit out of you. Step two: do it anyway.

1ivoryandsalt1

here’s a passive aggressive thing I made to put on FA

apocaplypticprince-deactivated2

Fun Fact: Wasp spray is much more effective than pepper spray or mace and the creep that you spray will literally have to go to the hospital, unlike pepper spray that wears off. It stings more and literally it’s much cheaper and more accessible. I have a can in my car and I’ve never had to use it (thank god) but it doesn’t expire, all you have to do is give it a shake like once in a while, unlike mace or pepper spray. A bunch of girls at my college have a can, and my campus police officer swears by it. Just putting that out there because hey, you never know. Stay safe y'all 🌸

setbabiesonfire

There are comments on this like “what if you hurt the attempted rapist too painfully? have you thought about what it would feel like?” Guys, you need to take a good hard look at your life and choices if your discourse empathizes with people that try to rape other people and not the people defending themselves from being raped.

hellwizards

shay + halo

requested by @coshayphinelove

avoidrot

shout out to the abuse victims who ever doubt that their abuse was real because their abuser told them that they loved them and that they’re incredible. your abuse was real. love and kind words does not erase the rest of what they did to you, or wanted to do to you.

ithelpstodream

theotheryongbok

My man Jesus

nevaehtyler

“Her fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first of a trilogy about a young girl’s battle with a prince over bringing magic back to West Africa, is going to be released some time next year. But it’s already got a seven-figure publishing deal with Macmillan, and a massive deal with Fox Studios too, with the latter acquiring the movie rights pretty early on in the day for a book that hasn’t even been published yet.”

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#fuck yeah you go girl #black girl magic #tomi adeyemi

Me when anyone tries to tell me this filter is not the greatest

#me #about me #snapchats #selfie #favorite filter

tatlmaslany

Orphan Black wrap party (March 18, 2017)

#I am in very deep denial about this

onceiwashere

i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers

onceiwashere

i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i

kids have no concept of anything. i walked into my kindergarten class and one kid asked me what my name was. when i said miss jones, he said “i like that name. did you know i’m in love with you”

letthemountainsmoveyou-deactiva

i asked my four year old cousin how old he thought i was going to be at my next birthday and he said 8. im 23

roonilwazlip-deactivated2022021

once i told a 6 year old that i had finished school and was doing “more school” [university] and she asked “why haven’t you found anyone to marry then”

byeeyeslikeacat-deactivated2019

We were at a museum and I was asking for the student discount and my nine year old cousin looks up at me with his eyes wide and says “wait you’re a STUDENT??”

meelothemanly

I used to babysit these three kids and the eldest who was around 11 at the time was talking about how adults are boring and when I told him I was an adult he said, “That’s not true, you’re my age”

cractasticdispatches

our aunt teaches and she has this story about a little girl who really was always pretty quiet in class and then on the final day of kindergarten she just up and stated ‘i’m all teached now. i don’t need to be teached anymore. i’m done of being teached.’

diamondelight92

once when i was 19, I told my little cousin that i was 19 and she looked up at me with huge eyes and went, “Does that mean you don’t have to bring an adult with you to the pool?”

maraudersvibes

My 6 year old cousin saw me driving for the first time, looked up at him mom and said “does that mean she is married now?”

standard-fiend

I watched my dad and my niece (3 at the time) arguing over a pair of pants and whether or not they were also a dress. My neice’s argument was that they were, in fact, also a dress because they were blue.

loveyoutothem00n

I asked the kids in my daycare class what they thought I should be for Halloween and this little boy goes, “ooh I know! A pickle! You’d be such a good pickle”

aimmyarrowshigh

On the first day of class with my favorite student of all time, I said, “Are you okay? You look like you have a question.” And she looked me right in the eyes and said, tremulously,

“Can a piranha eat a stapler?”

manic-kin

One time I was working with a kid and he looked up at me and asked “Do you have a boy?” I had no idea what he was talking about, but I told him that I did not have any boys. He looked shocked and then deeply concerned and said “Well, you better hurry up and shave your arms so you can get married; August is next month!”

dinovia-grant

I was sitting on the floor with my 3yo niece and we were playing with her younger brother’s alphabet blocks and the O had an octopus on it. So I picked it up and asked her what it was.

“Octopus,” she said, all curls and smiles.

“And what kind of animal is an octopus?” I asked. I was looking for “fish” or “sea creature” but I would have accepted almost anything–”weird,” “gross,” even “slimy.” “Underwater” or “it lives in the ocean” would have also been acceptable.

She looks me right in the eye and says, happy as a clam, “It’s a cephalopod.”

I haven’t been the same since.

manonamie

I’ve been doing an internship with nature education, where I teach these 4 to 5 year old kids about nature and their environment. I picked this group up and as we were waiting this one kid walked up to me and gestured for me to come close so they could whisper in my ear. I leaned in and the kid asked “Are you a werewolf?”

I didn’t know how to react ‘cause it was so sudden, but the kid was serious and waiting for an answer so I said: “Maybe. If you hear a wolf tonight, it might be me.” They then gasped extremely loudly and ran off screaming proudly that they found out (’:

theabsolutelad

I was playing the card game War with my 9 year old cousin. Pretty early on I put down a King and tease her about how I’m gonna win that round. She stares at me, slaps down an Ace, and says without hesitation:

“I crush dreams”

#D e a d

HEY GUYS! So this pretty lady is up for auction!! She is from a live painting session I did during a show with @aqueousband and @twiddlemusic at the Town Ballroom Saturday night. Proceeds to benefit the Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (@bnriverkeeper) in response to proposed cuts to the Great Lakes pollution cleanup funding. Bidding starts at $100 and ends Sunday (3/12) at 11:59pm! If you can't bid, please share! #waterislife . . . #art #instaart #instaartist #instaartistic #artsy #artistic #artistsoninstagram #arts #paint #painting #acrylic #acrylicpaint #canvas #canvaspainting #portrait #livepainting #fundraiser #bnriverkeeper #water #conservation #buffalove