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I always loved how back in the day before cellphones, people were unreachable if they weren’t at home. You can call but I won’t be there to answer. You can leave a message but you don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear it. You don’t know if I’m home, but you will have to make the trip to come to my house and knock on the door, hoping I’ll be there. And if I’m not…you can’t reach me!! Now that everyone has a cellphone the expectation of being reachable 24/7 is so disastrous. And let’s not even get into read receipts. I think one of the worst times of my inner peace is when I had an apple watch and suddenly every text and phone call and notification was on my freaking wrist, even if my phone was giving the illusion of distance by being in my pocket or bag or charging in another room. I stopped using it in 2022 and I’d rather eat a jean jacket with no water than ever be so connected again. “oh you can just turn off notifications!” not the point.

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My life improved so much when I started forcing myself to do things: forcing myself to exercise, to cook from scratch; forcing myself to go to the movies or to museums alone, to wear that really cute outfit just to run errands; forcing myself to read a book, to strike up a conversation with a stranger, to ask for a raise.

Once you begin forcing yourself to do the things that you had been too scared or too lazy to do, you feel a sense of accomplishment that gives you momentum to do even more. It gets easier to get out of your comfort zone & to do hard things.

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I handmade a lighter case for my friend’s birthday 💙

hand sculpted with daz air dry clay, hand sanded, hand engraved with a dremel tool, hand painted, hand glazed, and attached a customized keychain all be meee 🫶🏻

mailed this to her along with a camera (,: since film cameras were one of my first birthday gifts to her and a hobby we bonded over these past couple years

ruby red + rose quartz pink rhinestones for Cancer, royal blue rhinestone to signify it’s from me, and a baby blue and lavender rhinestone to resemble the matching rings we got the first time I flew to visit her almost 3000 miles away