#life tidbits

[chrispy-chimkin]

Not lost but I definitely ran

[mreecherie]

i've been spending more time w/ people who are supportive and radiant. i've been taking steps to grow from bad experiences.

[atherys]

went biking w one of my dormmates today. found a door in the middle of nowhere, but also pretty flowers.

[atherys]

went biking w one of my dormmates today. found a door in the middle of nowhere, but also pretty flowers.

[justspilledcoffee]

When we were kids our local library had a really nice children’s learning area with all kinds of displays and interactive things, and one of them was an articulated skeleton on one of those old-school stationary bicycles with the fan on the front and the handlebars that move back and forth, and when you pressed a button the skeleton would move and “ride” the bike. We would spend long amounts of time staring and pressing the button to make the skeleton ride the bike. It was a core memory for me and my siblings.

Flash forward to now, about 25 years later, and my brother and I have a membership at our local climbing gym. The gym recently added some exercise equipment including an erg and, you guessed it, one of those old ass stationary bikes.

So now every so often one of us will hop on the stationary bike and say “hey look, I’m the skeleton” and nobody else has a fucking clue what we’re talking about. But we know. We know.

[pluviophile-bookworm]

So my brother just tried to say I’m illegitimate

Joke’s on him. I was conceived out of wedlock, yes, but not BORN out of wedlock. Also, this is NOT the 18th century anymore. No one cares.

[pluviophile-bookworm]

Waving at the FBI agents behind the camera...

For about a week now, my brother has been coming to my room while I’m in online classes and waving at my laptop camera. I have no idea what he’s trying to accomplish. We never use our cameras in my classes as the platform we use is very slow and crashes if we do. 

So I said to him one day, ‘Who are you even waving at? They can’t see you.’ and he was like ‘I don’t know.’ So I was like, ‘Are you greeting the FBI agents behind the camera? I mean, they’re people too (I assume), but...’ He didn’t answer, just ran out of the room.

He hasn’t stopped doing it ever since, and always when I’m in class. I guess he might be hoping to  catch me with my camera on and meet my profs and fellow students someday. I’m not about to give him this pleasure.

[onegoodquoteisworthabook]

When problems arise, it's ok. Sometimes it may feel like it's the end of the world even when you know it isn't, but your feelings say otherwise. Here are some ways on becoming resilient.