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lana how i hate those guys

[prettierstudying]

* breathes *

ill just write it in my journal

[discountscholar]

really struggling to focus 🫠

[spoiledstarlets]

[autumnlake]

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[liones-s]

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

[nongiftedpoet]

I am too scared to commit. Too scared to fail. Too scared to get embarrassed. Too scared to be pressured. Too scared to be despised. Too scared to be untrustworthy by people.

But I am too naive. Too strong headed. Too optimistic. Too blind eyed. Too energetic. Too reckless. Too proud. Too ignorant. Too apathetic. Too delusional.

To not be dreaming or trying to achieve the future I wish but the process is too overwhelming and stressful so I cope by procrastinating everything because I am too prideful and aloof to give it all up.

- nongiftedpoet

[mindfulstudyquest]

your competition isn't other people.

it's your procrastination, your ego, the unhealthy food you're consuming, the knowledge you neglect, the negative behavior you're nurturing and your lack of creativity.

compete against that.

[draculaswidow]

Become so good at your chosen field that people start thinking you're the Devil's prodigy

[sanegreen]

just a girl in her room trying to forgive herself

[mindfulstudyquest]

me every three seconds when i'm not in the mood for studying:

[averysillygoose]

dont study like rory. study like paris.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

[henrywinterswife]

how sad it is to see the Greek students’ lives wasted.

bunny’s life gone too early,

henry’s life gone too early,

francis unhappily married,

camilla alone and empty,

charles distant and careless,

richard unable to move on.

sure, it was their fault for what happened to them ultimately. but these were some students who had serious potential and in the end it came to nothing.

none of them were heroes nor villians. they were just a couple of vulnerable wasted young adults we feel so strongly for.

[the-fire-might-be-shooting-at-us]

There was one line in (I think) the beginning of The Secret History that I only now felt the importance of. I believe it was something like, "I'm Californian by birth, and as I'm learning recently, by nature".

Personally, I feel like this line reminded me that there's an After to the story. After Bunny dies, After Henry dies, Richard lives. Life goes on. He has nothing to narrate, his story is over, but he goes on. After that line he became the narrator, the person we lived through, but when I reread the book this line reminded me that he had a life after all of this that didn't fully hinge on the events of the story (I mean his life was still terrible altered by the story so there is SOME effect).

Obviously we saw scenes post college, but those had the Greek Class in them, and his life was only mentioned to detail the effects of Hampden on his life. That line reminded me that he lives after the story and kind of immortalised him for me. It's also strangely the only reason I can imagine Richard Papen washing the dishes idk why.

[elissbabby]

[cassie-lmao]

[prettierstudying]

the sense that theyll never know you and only love who you pretend to be, they could never love everything i didnt show

[fawnerd-deactivated20260410]

[prettierstudying]