i always say that i don’t live for male validation but sometimes i just want to know i’m pretty

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i always say that i don’t live for male validation but sometimes i just want to know i’m pretty
thinking about making the switch to hobonichi for my planner next year. i've been using moleskine pro weekly diaries for the past three years and they are awesome. they have so much space and i can fit most of my journaling and planning and common placing all in one place. but the books are massive and kind of annoying to archive bc they take up so much space and get so bulky with how i use them. so a hobonichi cousin would be a lot smaller while still having enough pages for what i need. but i am a bit intimidated by the daily pages, and i'm worried i won't be able to keep up. i did start a semi-daily journal this summer which i love using but idk the longevity on that lol. thankfully there's a stationery expo happening in october that hobonichi will be at so i can see the book in person.
i miss much, and i want more. I miss that summer spent with my cousins, fighting and laughing and staying up too late. I want that lightheartedness again. I miss that childhood friend I loved and drifted apart from. I want the best for them. I miss nostalgic laptop games, and a multitude of memories I can never experience for the first time again. I want those memories forever. I miss that friend I had a thousand jokes with, I miss the friend whose house felt like a second home, I miss the one who made me listen to the song I love even now, the one with whom I first cooked maggi and the friend who saw me cry. I want them to remember me the same way I remember them.
I am overwhelmed, and I know exactly why I am. I was about to say I don’t know but that has to change. I am tired of giving answers in idk. I need to change my approach because often time i do know the answer but I don’t know just feels like a safer answer to give, a less tentative in terms of thinking.
The reason of me being overwhelmed is that i am not happy with myself, I am degenerating in terms of personal progress, in terms of personal growth. With the passage of time i am not getting better in anyting instead i’m stagnant, in this plac e where i have been for so many years. i hate myself I hate myself. there are people who wants to know me, wants to be friends with me, wants to talk to me, but here I am a 5 grader stuck in a 23 year old body. My mind freezes in situations is what my problem is, or it goes into a hurricane mode, where my thoughts are jumping inside, are in constant static motion. I hate myself, I am not an effecient person. wny am i not an effecient person. Why do i not meet the deadlines. I hate myself because I am not a good communicator, I am not very good in expressing my thoughts and emotions. why is that so? I need Allah. There is chaos, a panic building up inside of me, and it’s overwhleming me, why am i not progressing? why am i not growing in terms of personal skills? kuddos to people who do, I just want to be better too.
Journal update 10/21/17
I recently began creating In a new moleskine journal, and I'm loving it. It's paper quality is made for dry mediums/ink as the title listed when I purchased it. To my surprise the paper holds watercolor extremely well and doesn't buckle much or at all! I had wanted to buy another watercolor book from this brand but the store didn't carry any, and I just couldn't wait for one to be delivered. So just a little something for other journalers to keep in mind if you happen to pick one of these lovely books up!
The more I reach for something the more it pulls away
Am I really unlovable?