[starei]

anyways the only thing that matters is that the moon is proud of you for your perseverance

[cottaegecore]

you are not a machine. you are more like a garden. you need different things on different days. a little sun today, a little less water tomorrow. you have fallow and fruitful seasons. it is not a design flaw. it is wiser than perpetual sameness. what does your garden need today?

[redstonedust]

we all know adult humans dont get enough enrichment but the other day i was walkin home past an empty playground and impulsively ran over to spin myself on this zipline merry-go-round contraption for a few minutes and it really did feel like it unlocked some neglected part of my brain. like damn we really should all go outside and play more. fuck. they werent kidding with this play time thing. have you guys heard about play time. it could be huge.

[3000s]

falling in love makes me want to eat

[3000s]

& actually its romantic and intimate to have someone in ur life who wants u to eat, who reminds u to eat, who treats u to snacks bc they want u to be happy and full way more than they would ever care about u keeping thin, i think wanting someone to take care of themselves and eat without shame or fear for their appearance is like the worlds closest thing to unconditional love

[noonwalkdiary]

i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

[aamtreeanalogy]

reblogging is very funny. like i went through your blog, i like this, this and this one too, but yk what? i love this one the most so i am going to take it and keep it safe in my own blog, bye thank youuuu.

[kaalboishakhi-deactivated202505]

i love how we pick up habits and phrases and songs from people we love and it sticks with us for so long it becomes a piece of us making us a museum of all the people we've ever loved

[themoonsaid]

i pray for the well-being of everyone i have ever loved in my life. there is nothing more or less in my prayers.

[surprisinglynotsuicidal]

"Friends dont look at friends that way" COWARD. I look at my friends with awe in my eyes, my chest is filled with love, im glowing because i get to be near my friends. I look at my friends and i would give them my everything. SO SKILL ISSUE, look at your friends with all the love that you have

[yvampyr]

to add onto that,

[themoonsaid]

my loneliness is eating me up alive by each passing second

[themoonsaid]

Hindi is not difficult. reading in Hindi is not difficult. writing in Hindi is not difficult. counting in Hindi is not difficult. Hindi numbers are not difficult (१२३४५६७८९०). alphabets क्ष,ष,फ are not difficult. you just consume, are surrounded by and have been taught english and the latin alphabets way more than your native language and script use some sense

(this goes for any language not just hindi btw)

[pastelroll]

Ikrrrr doesn't matter which mother tongue you have, always be connected with it

[tomorrowwithme]

I wanna add that Hindi speakers should start demanding better from the Hindi language film industry. The current actors can't speak proper Hindi although they've all the money in the world to hire language and dialect coaches. The script writers can't seem to write a proper dialogue without mixing English. Can any Hindi speaker tell me if you use the word saazish or sarayantra more? I had to look up what saazish meant but sarayantra I understood immediately. This same goes for Bengali films. আজকাল বাঙালিরা বাংলা ইংরেজির সাথে মিশিয়ে কথা বলে অতিরিক্ত ভাবে যেটা আমার কাছে জঘন্য লাগে।

[history-nerd-science-major]

AS a hindi speaker, i very shamefully admit that i have no idea what sarayantra means. the word 'saazish' i understood immediately because i've head the urdu-y words used more around me than actual, pure hindi. i'd like to change this though.

multiple times throughout my childhood i've seen children being fined and /or punished for speaking their mothertongue and not english, be it convent or non convent schools. in this country, the ability to speak english is directly proportional to status and knowledge and that irks me so, so much. its so saddening to look at my batchmates' clueless faces as they ask me what tihattar (73) means.

PS: atp i dont even watch hindi movies, apart from the occasioinal dhamaal or phir hera pheri or welcome tbh. the only new hindi movie i've watched to completion is chhaava. i have next to no faith left in the industry anymore.

[tomorrowwithme]

Sadly, this is also my observation regarding Indian parents' attitude towards speaking own mother tongue and preferring English with their children. Even my mom always spoke in English with us in public when we were little, rather than our mother tongue. English is inherently tied to the educated upper class while a "vernacular" language is tied to the "rustics". Also, in the case of North India, many Persian loan words still seem to be perceived as "higher prestige" compared to actual spoken languages in the North, for example can you think of a Hindi equivalent to the word khamoshi? In the case of Bengali, it was only due to the 19th century Bhadraloks that made a reformed compromise between "sadhu bhasha" and "cholito bhasha" that took up many tatsama words, replacing or at least demoting tadbhava words and even some loan words. In some regards, Hindi does "better" though, for example, the legal lexicon in Hindi is totally native unlike in Bengali, which still uses Persian words. Then there are words like "rokom", "jinish", "asol", "nokol", "dalil", "angur" etc. that have native equivalents but the Arabic and Persian loans are still more popular. honestly, the only way to rectify this situation is to give prestige to these languages and produce a lot of media and literature in these languages. The only problem that can rise here is a sort of an "artificial language purity", because after all people speak words that are in everyday use. For example, if your entire schooling system is an English, you're gonna learn specific niche terms, scientific lexicon, professional jargon etc. mostly in English, and in a multilingual country like India where people have very hard time coming together and decide for one national language, it's hard to maintain your own mother tongue.

[history-nerd-science-major]

oh yeah my mother has most of the time done more or less the same thing! when we're outside, she talks to me mostly in english. she says she hates english because, yk, the british, but she also uses it during arguments w people as a sort of display of class, almost. it's rather sickening to watch.

i remember when i was 14, i used to think that i was better than other people because my english was so much better than theirs but then i was 15, and listening to my hindi teacher speak beautiful, mesmerizing hindi in her classroom and thought "why, in any way, is this lower than fucking english??". she allowed only hindi to be spoken in her class (which was a great rule) and for the first time then, i spoke hindi without feeling like some lower class person, i had been that brainwashed. i thought "no, idiot. hindi is a much, much better than that abomination of a language.". i stopped connecting the language people spoke to their class after that.

there are many words we use nowadays without even knowing their roots/original meanings. for example, the word 'aurat' used in the place of 'mahila' or 'stree' or 'naari', even, has arabic/persian roots in the word 'aurah' which means nudity or genitalia. a lot of people are not willing to accept this; perhaps they believe this is bjp propaganda or whatever but oh well, etymology is etymology.

about 'khamoshi', well..........i had to think hard and long before i came up with 'shanti', i wont lie.

PS: did you know that one can use the words 'prasaadhan kaksh' instead of toilet/washroom? haha, we had to learn this word specifically to ask for permission from our hindi teacher back in school!

[tomorrowwithme]

Lmao they should look u the meaning of awrah 💀 And also, Pranam to your Hindi teacher. Self confident, knowledgeable teachers can really change the trajectory of an entire generation!

[emeraldmercury]

The state of Hindi education is even more bleak in the South. One of the ways people in the north can “clock” South Indians is noticing that they sound like Doraemon… because THAT is where most southerners learn their spoken Hindi from.

[sleeping-behemoth]

the funniest thing is that the purer, tatsam words come from the uttarakhand-haryana-punjab region (re: sugar -> shakkar which is closer to sharkara (sugar in sanskrit)) as compared to up-bihar or the stereotypical hindi belt.

[themoonsaid]

i just wanna say, hindi is a language made from persian, arabic, english , PRAKRIT (/sanskrit) origin words. also known as khadi boli/hindustani pre-partition. that's our identity. that's hindi. no more sanskrit words make hindi purer, the same way french words in English don't make it less purer.

my post was not necessarily about hindi. it was about the after effects of colonisation. i just made the post using hindi cause that's my mother tongue (mind you, still not my native language i.e. punjabi) and also because i wanted to talk about how english has became a language in India where a lot of people struggle with their native language, not just hindi. it's because for a lot of people, education is in english. it's a very vast topic to talk about.

the way punjabi was replaced by hindi in my household (my grandparents willingly did it), same way english has been replacing hindi (un-intentionally). i love evolution of languages don't get me wrong, i just hate replacement of it.

[staradical]

oh yeah people..... this is what FAME looks like...

[journeyinsidemyhead]

[letsbeapoemtogether]

Anne Sexton.

[nixscriptum]

[honeyluvsw]

moth pngs ! free to use! credit not needed but appreciated :)

[pnglove]

hi sorry forgot my manners the first time around. i love seeing your compilations, they're all so well thought out and it's very pleasing to look at <3

could you please find some of the sun and moon? thank you so much!!

thank you for being so sweet! ♡

✧ ˚ ༘ ♡ sun and moon pngs ☾┊͙*ೃ༄

[nixscriptum]