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The 1000 challenge. A blog post every day. For a thousand days. Forming a habit and creating content. Let's see what happens ...

[thousandchallenge]

I‘m just waiting for fate to figure its stuff out. In the meantime I‘ll just continue with everything the same as I’ve always done.

[whitneymuseum]

“If you think about why any story moves us, it’s because of a quaking moment of recognition. It’s never the shock of the new, it’s the shock of the familiar.”

— Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the Oscar-nominated film The Look of Silence (2014), speaks about his practice as a documentary filmmaker. 

[leohearts]

“In my eyes, good conversation is the birthplace of true attraction. So open up and share with me every encounter and experience that shaped you into who you are today. Tell me all about your hopes and dreams and captivate me with your passions. Arouse my curiosity and you’ll have my attention.”

— Beau Taplin

[myawesomequotes-com]

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

— Dorothy Nevill

[okay]

[porkchophippie]

Everything has changed, nothing is the same, not even my perception of self. I am so much stronger than I was before. And when I am weak like I am today I have to remind myself of how far I’ve come.

[gentlesleaze]

“The woman you are becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. Choose her over everything.”

— Unknown (via thoughtkick)

[kushandwizdom]

Forgive people, move on and let them continue with their lives. You are moving into a direction that they aren’t destined to follow. Don’t disrupt the universe’s plan.

- Meggan Roxanne

[quotespile]

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (via quotespile)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[meet-me-onthe-equinox]

That’s why therapists are important. Without them, we are very unreliable narrators of our own stories.

Ruth, Russian Doll. (via meet-me-onthe-equinox)

[a-quietsoul]

I’m not interested in temporary love, because love, no matter how temporary, will take pieces of you that time and effort will not give back. I have no interest in wasting my life in love I will not bet my life on. On love that I’m not sure of, love that made me doubt, love that I question every step of the way - no matter how much it brings me happiness. I will not risk my life for love. Either I have love that will last for eternity, or I won’t have love at all.

aumirah (via a-quietsoul)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[ink-and-oceans]

“Careful,” warns the Mind. “Now,” insists the Heart.

tara love / conversations between my mind and my heart (via ink-and-oceans)

[aestum]

(by joelfilip)

[thousandchallenge]

3. Lists

Playlist

To-do list

List of times

Name list

Priority list

Lists bring order to the chaos inside your head. Lists can be numbered or not, it makes a great perceptive difference if they are or not. Makes everything even more precise. With lists you write down the items and that allows you to forget. Because in the end you won’t forget because it’s recorded somewhere. Your brain gets a break and a breather this way.

Making lists is a very self-reflective process (for me at least). You think before you write. It’s an extra layer to pass through, but this process is beneficial in the sense of filtering out unnecessary bullet points. I believe that in the end having a list and therefore a plan can save you lots of time, even if you first have to invest some of it to create your plan.

However, sometimes a list isn’t the optimal way of portraying an amount of datapoints. People for example mostly exist in a cloud for me. A mind cloud, the names floating around in the empty imaginary space before me.

So maybe I can say that the opposite of lists are clouds (?)

[thousandchallenge]

2. On the phone

Okay so this title is fitting twofold.

One, it’s because I’m writing this on my phone. Not quite out of necissity, but out of lazinesss of unpacking my laptop. Even though I could tell before having started typing on my screen that I much refer to have a real keyboard to work on.

Two, it’s about my dependency on my phone in just about every moment. Practical, but simultaneously a curse. But unlike sleeping beauty, I’m consciously deciding to feed into this curse and don’t really mind because the alternative seems worse.

If I wouldn’t use my phone, this post would not have been written, streak broken, over. So, more than a little part of me is grateful for the convenience factor enabling me to produce content this way. (Though arguably the quality may be better when written from a laptop, but no guarantee on that either.)

However, the ability to connect us with others through our phones is often its greatest pitfall. How you may ask? Because it makes everyone seem available at every time. (Which totally isn’t the case.) And thus you spend so much time wasted by often anxiously waiting for someone to reply. By making this waiting something stressful, it makes us feel alone and forgotten in the moment. Creating a disconnect to the other person you’re trying to reach. (They probably don’t even notice it.)

So what can we do to combat this disappointment and problem with impatience? Perhaps it’s best to kill all expectation. And on top of that realise that a phone is little more than a rectangular box we like to stare at with a shiny screen that only holds immeasurable power over us when it’s illuminated. Nothing more. Nothing less.