LOVE IS ETERNAL

My Mom: no, I’m ugly. The ugliest. I’m a horrible pig of a person

Other people: (to me) you look just like your mom

Me: so I’m ugly

Now:

My 9 year old: mom you’re beautiful

Me: thank you! I don’t always see it very well in myself though because my brain lies to me a lot and tells me I’m ugly even though I’m not. But I can’t be ugly because we look a lot alike and you’re beautiful. My brain is just a bully 

My kid: that’s right! We’re BOTH beautiful!

​Me:​ yes we are!​​​

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And that my friends is called thinking about how your self depricating words can hurt other people around you. I can’t see that I’m beautiful most of the time but I can acknowledge that the issue is my ability to see myself in a positive way. 

But calling myself ugly just hurts the people who love me. It could even convince my kid that they are also ugly and further the cycle 

Me, internally: ouch

Me, out loud: “well, yeah! Because I am chubby! But also because I grew TWO WHOLE BABIES in it, and that stretched it out a bit!”

My daughter, in the most encouraging tone possible as she reaches up and pets my belly: “it did SUCH a good job.”

I remember how throughout middle school - high school there was so much pressure around to be dating someone, and if you weren’t, you were a loser or deemed unattractive. Your relationship status was like a social status, and if you’ve never been in one, you’re inexperienced and missing out.

I always thought to myself, what about the work I put into my personal interests? What about the friends I build deep connections with? What about me just being capable of taking care of myself? I feel like there was a lack of emphasis of being your own self and not giving a shit about what other people are doing back in middle school / high school.

While some people may think it’s important to have had previous relationship experiences before (which yeah, it works for some people that way), there’s also nothing wrong with investing that time in yourself and your friendships, and placing yourself first ✌🏻

Yes!

Okay, so what you wanna do is…

As soon as you finish watching your gay stuff, go up to your profile and click “Account”: 

Scroll down to “My Profile” and click on “Viewing Activity”:

Find the title you want to “hide” (aka delete from your history):

Click on the “x” next to the movie/series you’re trying to hide.

Clicking that “x” will delete it from your viewing activity AND prevent the title from showing up in the snitch sections of your account, “Recently Watched” and “Continue Watching”.

Boom.

Now you can watch whatever gay stuff you want and your fam won’t know unless you tell them. 

If you can’t accept limitations, we’re no better than the bad guys.

At some point in your life, you will probably BE a bad friend.

because

they’re

great

The dark lord

The four hogwarts founders

And my personal favorite