Progress not perfection

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband

Sometimes I think that "chronic" is a word doctors use when they've run out of answers and hope you’ll simply stop asking questions.

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

i just realized the only 2 options arent "make someone angry" or "do what they want"

being in love is like you learn theres other reactions people have besides angry or not angry

love when its safe

They should invent things that don't need energy that aren't (doom)scrolling on social media

all roads lead back to the loneliness i felt as a child

when someone texts Nathan's photo to Interpol and Sterling just gets a random snapshot on what bullshit Nate is up to that week

how do I explain to healthy people that I get disappointed when my blood tests come back normal

enjoying a character acquiring a disability in a "fascinated by how they might adapt and what disability aids they might use as well as how they gradually unlearn internalized ableism" way when the rest of the fandom enjoys it in a "purely tragedy/angst fuel synonymous with the character suffering" way is like. how you actually arrive at the level of suffering that the rest of the fandom thinks is caused by just existing with a disability

having your own money is fucking dangerous because the only person stopping me from buying whatever I want is myself. and myself has bad judgment sometimes