Just Do Most Of It

I love to say YOLO when not appropriate or applicable.

[dirtbagbarbie]

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’”

I’ve been making some big changes in my life this year. Back in December, a couple of massive life events sent me spiraling. The death of a dear friend and the loss of a keystone relationship were the crux of what had been a several month uphill battle with some of the worst anxiety and depression of my life, and I got knocked down harder than I have in years. I’m a firm believer in “fake it til you make it,” so for the last 4 months I’ve been doing my best to act like I have my act together, in desperate hopes that it would actually come together. That’s not to say that the joy I’ve been exuding in the last 4 months hasn’t been real - just that there’s a lot more to my life than that and I still am fighting my own brain and body every single day.

But what I’m most proud of, and what I want to talk about, is that I’m winning this fight.

My mental illness wants to take everything from me. It wants to take my academic success, my career dreams, my physical health, my relationships, my happiness. And it tries, and it is strong. But I am stronger, and when I am not, my support system is. I have safeguarded myself with medications that work well, doctors that want me to be holistically healthy, physical practices that strengthen my body and mind, parents and friends and a roommate and an advisor who look after me and know when things aren’t great, and who are patient with me but still firm and helpful and push me to get back on track.

I have not sat idly by and let the storm throw me around. I have spent every day struggling to build shelter. I am bruised and I am dirty and I am soaking wet but I am seeing that this work has not been in vain, and that it is possible for me to remain safe and dry next time the storm comes.

I finally feel like the storm is passing and the fog is lifting. My work is paying off, and although it’s not done, and it will never be done, it doesn’t feel so much like work anymore. It just feels like life, and life is hard and weird but life is good. I am proud of my big, weird, messy life. I am proud of my failures because they did not stop me. I am proud of myself.

[red-summer-dress]

what I don’t get though is how I can fall in love with all his imperfections but not my own

[flawlesstrueperfection-deactiva]

the first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly

once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life (friends, love, happiness) it’s a lot easier to love yourself unconditionally

your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else’s eyes

your job is to do whatever the fuck you want and look however the fuck you want while doing it

[kieljamespatrick]

[abovearth]

Wanaka, New Zealand by matthewhahnel

[thelovejournals]

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Tim Urban, Wait But Why - How to Pick Your Life Partner (via thelovejournals)

[matociquala]

Here is thing I learned when I was 29, which I now give away for free: If you want to do a thing, do it now, or as soon as feasible. Because there might not be a later. If it is a complicated or expensive or hard thing that takes many stages or has a steep learning curve, start working on the parts you can work on while you can work on them, then move on to the next thing. Accept that there will be a lot of failures along the way, and that you can come back from nearly any mistake that doesn’t involve making a left turn in front of an oncoming semi. Concentrate on yourself and what you can do, and don’t rely on other people to fix things for you, even though you might love them or they you. (This doesn’t mean you can’t love friends or family or partners. Friends and family and partners, in the long run, are the thing other than Useful Work and Adventures that make life worthwhile. Well, all that, and a really nice coffee and tea kit in the kitchen and the skill to use it. But that last thing isn’t terribly expensive unless you make it be.) But to succeed at a thing–a job, a relationship–in the long term, the thing is: You Must Commit, even though commitment is scary. And commitment is scary because once you’re in you’re in. It’s not bobbing around close to the shore, paddling with your feet. It’s both feet and swimming as hard as you can out where the rip currents and the sharks are, where the water turns blue. You can’t hold back because you’re afraid of getting hurt: you have to accept that you are going to get hurt, and put your hand in the fire of your own free will. It’s like climbing. You can make sure you’ve got good ropes and a belayer you trust (you SHOULD make sure you have good ropes and a belayer you trust!), but there’s moves you can’t make unless you’re willing to risk falling. I’m not saying follow your bliss off a cliff, in other words: part of being prepared and committed is having the right kit, whether it’s money in the bank for the lean times when starting off as a freelancer, or a partner who supports your work, or being young enough that starving in a cold room for a few years with pneumonia is romantic (I have the T-shirt!). That’s why it’s scary. It’s scary because you are taking an actual chance. But: things don’t work out the way you want them to if you just kind of drift along seeing what will happen. Nice things might happen! …but they didn’t, for me. Basically, what I figured out was that I had to be a protagonist if I wanted anything to happen, and part of being a protagonist was accepting that I might fail. And then have to deal with that failure. And that if I didn’t do it I would more or less inevitably fail, but I could pretend to myself that it wasn’t because I wasn’t good enough and that I didn’t know why. Seeking success, in other words, meant letting go of a layer of ego defense. This realization directly led to me having the career I always wanted, and doing pretty well at it. It also led to me having the best relationship of my life. I wish I’d learned it when I was sixteen, rather than twenty-nine, but I had some things I had to work through first. 

So that thing you want to do? Assuming it’s not illegal or immediately fatal? Do it now.

[justgot1]

Every regret I have in my life is from ignoring this principle.

[universal-invariants]

[capacity]

This is the most legendary tweet I’ve ever read to this day

[inkskinned]

there is a long silence in me, like a river. sometimes i walk beside it and sometimes i forget to watch it. it laps at my ankles. i’m terrified of going back in, but each time i slip, i forget how to get out of it.

[thenamesjocelyn]

[jatel0-deactivated20150421]

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http://theaudiobookbay.com/

More Here

[keomoto-deactivated20141214]

no one coulda reblogged this a month ago when i spent 500

[kreativegeenius]

momentsbymarcus

[trappunzelll]

Look at KB coming through

[kimreesesdaughter]

Every time you see this, reblog it. There is always someone in college that will see this.

[spreadtheloveplease-deactivated]

I know you have said this a bunch of times but can you briefly go over the egg muffins? :) do you just mix it all together , put in an muffin pan and bake? At what temp and how long??

YES! Okay so all you need is:

muffin tin, coconut oil spray (or PAM works fine), spinach/any veggies, egg whites, and Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage crumbles. 

1. Spray muffin tin

2. Put veggies in cups (don’t over-fill) 

3. Add in sausage crumbles! I use 30g of sausage crumbles and it makes 4 cups. You could also use bacon or lunch meat. 

4. Pour egg whites into the tins

5. Bake in the oven at 425 degrees for 11-13 minutes (depending on your oven!)

BAM THATS IT

[generic-equivalent]

It’s exhausting thinking about all of the things you’re supposed to do to take care of yourself and be a person. Wake up early. Take your meds. Brush your teeth. Shower. Drink water. Eat balanced. Go to work. Go to school. Have friends. Have family. Work out. Meditate. Do yoga. Have hobbies. Laugh. Cry. Communicate. Be sober. Be creative. Take more meds. Turn off your lights and TV. Have sex. Go to bed early. Who the fuck has time and energy for that shit? Am I the only one just exhausted thinking about it?

[curatingness]

[pubertad]

[museedart]

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind, 1896 by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[seekers-whoarelovers-deactivate]

I’ve been thinking a lot about it and this is literally the best title of anything

[cumaeansibyl]

so I guess it was some ancient Greek who said “truth lives at the bottom of a well” and I don’t know what he meant or why it stuck, but I’ve seen a lot of 19th-century references to it (because people always love showing off how much they know about stuff)

but I like this because imagine how fucking pissed off you would be if you lived at the bottom of a well in the first place, but then you had to climb all the way out of it somehow because humans were such unbelievable assholes that you were forced to yell at them in person

[autumngracy]

“I CAME OUT OF THE WELL BECAUSE YOU NEED TO STOP”

[jake-clark]

[coffeeinmybeard]

I just spit all over my phone lol

[blannybuns-deactivated20170202]

Why the fuck you lyin’

[fuckstaffposts]

Tumblr Turning beauty into chaos since 1893.

[iwontdancenetwork]

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[giveit-time]

I’m so gay

[cuffya-bitch-deactivated2018082]

I’m wet omfg

[deep-vibrati0ns-deactivated2019]

as if i wasn’t already gay as fuck before

[aestheticallypleasingurmom]

Fuck me upppp

[myopenendedlife]

Jade is the love of my life and everyone can come after me if they try to take her

[hurleyquinnzel]

Songs that never fail to make white people beyond turnt

 Don’t Stop Believing 

Bohemian Rhapsody 

Living On A Prayer 

Come On Eileen 

Sweet Caroline 

Shot Through the Heart 

Pour Some Sugar on Me 

Sweet Home Alabama 

Under Pressure 

Shook Me All Night Long 

Ice Ice Baby 

Cotton Eyed Joe

500 Miles

Wonderwall 

Buddy Holly 

A Thousand Miles 

Teenage Dirtbag 

Red Solo Cup 

Mr Brightside 

Never Gonna Give You Up 

Eye of the Tiger 

Chicken Fried 

American Pie 

I Love Rock and Roll 

Dancing Queen 

Don’t You Want Me

We Will Rock You 

The Time Warp 

Hey Jude 

Piano Man

This Is How We Do It

Drops of Jupiter 

Hey Soul Sister

In The End 

All The Small Things 

Stacy’s Mom 

Kryptonite 

All Star 

You Found Me

Bad Day 

Bring Me To Life 

Dance, Dance

Sugar We’re Going Down 

I Write Sins Not Tragedies 

All The Small Things 

Ocean Avenue 

Dirty Little Secret 

Margaritaville 

Sk8er Boi

Brown Eyed Girl 

Life Is A Highway 

Some Nights 

Little Lion Man 

Breakeven

Hey There Delilah 

Viva La Vida

Use Somebody 

Carry On My Wayward Son 

Take On Me

1985 

Iris 

I’m Awesome 

Seven Nation Army 

September 

Since U Been Gone

Skinny Love 

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)

Bye Bye Bye 

Say It Ain’t So 

Somewhere Only We Know 

I’m Yours 

Last Resort 

My Girl 

Tiny Dancer 

Roxanne

Shout 

I’m a Believer 

Soul Man

Feel Good Inc 

Check Yes Juliet

Walking On Sunshine 

MMM Bop

Pumped up Kicks 

Hooked On A Feeling 

It’s A Beautiful Day

Summer Girls 

Before He Cheats 

Happy Together

You Make My Dreams Come True

Build Me Up Buttercup

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

DONTTRUSTME

Shake It (Metro Station)

Juke Box Hero

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

[yungadult]

laughing at how many of these songs we’ve played at ukulele club @moistyeast

[sometimeslegendsdie-deactivated]

I want to be mad at this list but it’s about 95% accurate

[svna-deactivated20171018]

I put 75% of these on a playlist I had to make for a work thing. They loved it.

[thrivingtopanga-deactivated2018]

Painfully accurate

[tylerknott]

We are rounding the corner on what I think most people will agree, has been a really tough year. 2016 challenged us in ways we never saw coming, took away people we were not ready to give, and has officially spooked many of us into worrying about the next years to come. Seldom has there been a time where the new year has been so craved, and so much hope thrust upon it. Forget not that there was beauty, though. Forget not the moments of staggering joy and the millions of unmentioned miracles that filtered through. Say what you wish, I still think it’s a pretty magical world, I still think it’s worth believing in.