blog of a future designer

21 year old still in wonder of it all (messy person at heart)

[quotemadness]

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.

John Carmack (via quotemadness)

[brutereason]

When you’re depressed (or anxious, or triggered), staying in all weekend, not answering the phone, binge-watching TV, and not getting dressed sounds great. It might even sound like “self-care.” And aspects of it can be self-care. But self-care is not just about soothing yourself in the moment, it’s about setting up the supports and structures that let you be okay enough in your day-to-day life. So while depression says “let’s watch Buffy instead of doing the laundry” the reality is that tomorrow you’re going to wake up to clothes everywhere, nothing clean, and one more thing you haven’t done–which will add to the guilt and shame that seem to come hand-in-hand with depression. On the other hand, depression-challenging behaviours are hard and not fun in the moment, but set you up to a) have small victories (SO important when dealing with mental health issues), b) have some structure and routine in your life, and c) set up the support and structure to let you deal with the root of your issues or cope with issues that aren’t going away anytime soon.

Self-Care Minimums and Dealing With Depression | The Span of My Hips (via brutereason)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[mmmksm]

Old home, new study space ✏️

[poetsandwriters]

Read 50 pages a day, which is the quickest way I know to get better. Stay in the chair until you’ve done that day’s work. Sit there right until the moment when you think you’ve had enough, then stay 20 minutes. Turn the Internet off. Leave the page knowing what you’ll work on tomorrow. Go places, love people, be good, be bad. Live as much life as you possibly can and then give it all away to your pages.

Ramona Ausubel (Literary Hub, 2016)

[theredpelican]

The Secret History: Oscar Wilde edition

Richard : “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

Henry : “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

Charles : “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Camilla : “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”

Francis : “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

Bunny : “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

Julian : “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

[longshankstumblarian]

Reading …. Source: Atomic Samba (FB)

[kakochii]

[pir-ado]

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[upliftourday]

[xtudy-blog]

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” — Mary Tyler Moore

[observando]

I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but whose integrity is greater than any rule book and whose loyalty is stronger than blood.

Jim Wern (via observando)

[xtudy-blog]

& grace will lead me home

[galleani]

Bad intentions cannot travel as far as good.

The Sound of Waves ~ Yukio Mishima (via galleani)

[theredpelican]

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once.

Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in shifting light (via theredpelican)

[mywhisperedcolors]

[universi-tea]

concept: me, drinking coffee in a café in a foreign country. it’s raining outside. i’m reading my favorite book. everything is okay, and i’m never stressed. 

[crimsun]

The simple fact is that people who achieve excellence in their fields didn’t just have a dream. They got up at 4:00 am to practice on parallel bars or had to forgo other desirable activities and paths in order to get in six hours of violin practice a day, or stayed off several million absurd writing advice blogs with their overheated little cliques that dispense useless regurgitated maxims and empty praise and decide to actually confront their own thoughts on a page. Or they read Beowulf and Dante carefully and deeply when they didn’t see any point, since all they were interested in was Sylvia Plath, because someone of more experience and wisdom told them to do so. I don’t know whether we’re overly lazy, stupid, or childish these days. But the idea of preparing oneself for excellence has somehow disappeared. So – my advice to dreamers: Don’t just follow your dreams. Earn them. Do what it takes to achieve it. Work for it. Don’t just sit there and dream because if you do, it will never, ever be yours.

Harrison Solow, Don’t Follow Your Dream (via crimsun)

fucking preach

(via thesuccessrules)