Never Too Much

sekaistudies:

I want to chill but I also want to learn 5 languages

problematism:

y’all: there’s strength in being vulnerable uwu

me: good for u i personally love keeping a distance and not getting my heart shattered every three minutes

(Source: imanes)

penpenhooray:

jellybean-jones:

the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things have improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

I taught myself to knit about five years ago off of youtube videos, and nothing gives me a confidence boost more than when I finish a project and wear it to work.

I picked up hand lettering a year and a half ago to sign the yearbooks of students as a goodbye after I had been laid off, and people who have always known me to have terrible handwriting ask me to do the calligraphy for documents.

I picked up watercolor six months ago to make graduation cards for my senior students who gave me graduation invites, and they cried because no one had made them something like that before.

I picked up embroidery last night, and I’ve found a hobby that will let me stab something over a thousand times without being arrested.

glumshoe:

Me: “Why am I feeling a sense of dread?”

My brain: “That’s cortisol, baby!”

Me: “Yeah, but where is it coming from?”

My brain: “Your adrenal gland!“

Me: “That is not what I mean.”

astrodidact:

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/13/you_are_stealing_our_future_greta

You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change

Fifteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. plenary last night in Katowice, Poland, condemning global inacti

Democracy Now!

smallest-feeblest-boggart:

siriuszstar:

captainlordauditor:

certainslantedlight:

things to include

• flapper dresses
• jazz music
• sex positivity
• women’s rights
• renewal of arts & culture
• increased immigration & cultural sharing
• sequins
• eyeliner

things to leave behind

• racism & nativism
• consumerist culture
• white guys writing “the great american novel”

more things to include

• black/jewish solidarity
  
• short hair of all textures
• suspenders
• beaded & embroidered dresses
• subtly homoerotic advertising
• masculine women, feminine men

things to leave behind

• ineffective prohibition laws
  
• wealth gap

Things to leave behind

• Capitalism

this time we do it right

therealflurrin:

systlin:

dragginage:

tami-taylors-hair:

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?

I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?” 

So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.

And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes. 

Do good recklessly.

millennial-review: