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this ask polly comment..

It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223

pbs-r

DECLARATIONS OF A HEALTHY ADULTHOOD

DAVID RICHO

titsay

christmas tree oh christmas tree

sea-mists

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

titsay

academia-lucifer

@academia-lucifer

stuckinapril

Pearls of wisdom from my organic chemistry professor:

Take everything with a grain of salt. Most things are oversold.

90% of the time it’s never about what someone feels about you personally.

Always be persistent (with reason). Things don’t come by easily, but we’re too bogged down worrying what others think of us not to go for them.

Never be afraid of people. Ever

If someone is an asshole to you, and you have not given them a reason to be an asshole to you, most times it means they’re not a people person & you probably dodged a bullet by no longer associating with them.

Be polite & up to standard regardless of how the other party is acting. Let how they act be a reflection of who they are, not who you are as well.

Work hard (with anything you’re interested in). Hard work leads to fulfillment.

Your mind is your worst enemy. Don’t let anxious thoughts direct the way you react. Don’t assume it’s you against the world.

Let rejection not stop you but strengthen your resolve. You will get what you want so long as you keep working for it.

You are not the first person to be in the position you’ve found yourself in. You’ll persist just as others have before you. It’s never the end of the world like our minds like to make us believe it is.

cheruib

that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing

zandrapaints

there's always time to take a moment

weltenwellen

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

feluka

cat laziness is so contagious. you'll see your cat flopped on its back in your bed a completely comfy cozy baby and you'll be like. you're right. you make a compelling argument.