#be stubborn

[andaaz-e-aafat]

It's so annoying that as a teenager, I'm not stubborn.

Trust me, if you are a teenager, be stubborn. Be ziddi. Itne ziddi ki samne wala thak jaye tum smajhate samjhate. Itna ziddi mare hue aatmao ko bhi chubne lago.

Because being ziddi is revolutionary. Being ziddi is krantikari.

I want to be ziddi.

[s-p-r-i-n-g-t-i-g-e-r]

happy birthday soobie~

[vampbeliefs]

KEEP PERSISTING. You’re doing everything right, you have been assuming and persisting perfectly my love, your only job is to KEEP PERSISTING. YOU HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT, YOUR ONLY JOB IS TO KEEP DOING IT <33. You persist effortlessly and easily. Seriously, you’re doing such an amazing job.

Keep claiming your desire as yours. At the end of the day, the 3d has no choice but to conform to whatever you’re persisting in. Why? Because you said so. You’re God.

[smpsm]

[itooktheplunge-blog]

How To Deal With Family

My mother asked me over to dinner two days after I went vegan. She’d just bought a quarter of a cow from a butcher, grass fed beef, and wanted to know if I wanted to come over for dinner.

Normally, I would have been all over that steak. But I had made a choice, and I am nothing if not stubborn. 

I told her flat out that I would be happy to come over, but that I had made the choice to go vegan, I needed to know if she would provide a vegan meal, or if I ought to just bring my own plate to heat up. 

Stand your ground.

My Mom was pretty flabbergasted, and she didn’t have the slightest clue as to what I could eat, but she was open when I explained that there were common sides that she would make anyways, that I could eat.

That day I ended up baking my own hamburger buns, and had Boca burgers with lettuce, tomato, and a mixture of vegenaise and bbq sauce. Eating those and olive oil pan fried potatoes left me pleasantly full, and I didn’t feel cheated at all. It’s going to be an adjustment period. (Later that night she asked if I wanted the cans of tuna from her cabinet before realizing that tuna was not, in fact, vegan). But you will come to realize that while headstrong and set in their ways, most people won’t really care if you decide to go vegan.

They’ll make snide comments, sure. But remember, you made this choice for yourself, the animals, and the planet. You didn’t make it to please them. 

[quotes-and-questions]

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

[gitsandshiggles]

“Relationships aren’t going to always be happiness and kisses and flirting. Sometimes, relationships are going to be disagreements, silent moments and forgiveness. They aren’t always flowers and butterflies. Sometimes, they’re bee stings and poison ivy. They sting with putting eachother in place when needed and they ache when we hurt one another. If you go into something so precious thinking that it’s going to be “perfect”, a word that should never exist in any relationship, then you may as well not even enter through those doors. Save yourself and spare the others feelings. They are fucking hard work and they are also so incredibly delicate. Handle them with care and also put that fucking foot down. I promise it’ll be the best damn relationship you’ll ever have.”

— Butterflies and Rashes ( @gitsandshiggles )