Untitled

The Parkside Avenue Station on the Q Line.

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

For some of us, the holiday season can be a hard one. That sucks, so we made something for all of us. It starts today, December 1, and it’s called 31 Days of Self-Care. It’s a list of purposeful, daily activities meant to pick yourself up, calm yourself down, and often a little bit of both. You can participate every day, some days, one day, whatever feels right. We’ll be posting daily prompts as well as reblogging some of our favorites we find in the #postitforward and #31daysofselfcare tag, so be sure to tag your posts! See the full list of prompts below.

Day…

Question! What’s your happy place? Reply here or illustrate it.

Post a link to a song that makes you feel happy. Send it to another Tumblr.

Share something on your Tumblr for someone who might be going through a tough time. It can be anything: a photo, a GIF, or advice.

Look at this cute GIF by My Whispered Colors (@mywhisperedcolors). When you’re done, look at it again. Then pass it on.

Color in this square made by Tumblr Creatr Josh LaFayette (@joshlafayette).

What does your dream world look like? Draw it, animate it, or just tell us about it.  

Create an emoji spell for self-care, happiness, positivity, or all three!

Make a list of three (or more!) things you like about yourself.

Write a Tumblr chat post where you cheer yourself up after a bad day.

Color! Here’s a square from Tumblr Creatr Geo Law (@getaloadageo). If you’d like, submit it to the Mental Health Quilt (@mentalhealthquilt) when you’re done.

Question! What’s your favorite self-care activity? Reply here or illustrate it.

2016 was a rough year. Make a list of good things that happened.

Cheer someone up today. What are some things you can do to make a friend in need feel better?

Make a list of everything you do for self-care.

Tag a Tumblr friend in a post and make a list of things you like about them.

All of a sudden—a Dementor appears! You are about to cast a Patronus Charm. What would your favorite positive memory be?

Make a list of everything you’re proud of accomplishing this year.

Share a playlist of songs you can listen to if you need cheering up.  

Spend 10 minutes looking through your Tumblr dashboard today. Send something cool to a Tumblr.

Eat your favorite food today. Wait, post a picture of it first.

Make a 2017 to-do list of positive things for yourself.

Illustrate one nice thing you’ll do for yourself today.

Make a list of things you can do for yourself when you’re feeling down.

Color! Here’s a square made by Tumblr Creatr Brian Butler (@showdrawn). Make some magic with it.

Tumblr-grams! Send this positive post by Thoka Maer (@thokamaer) to a friend on Tumblr.

Take a silly/happy/crazy GIF of yourself with the Tumblr GIF maker.

Post a video that makes you happy. Send it to a Tumblr friend.

Make a list of five positive affirmations to live by.

Draw something that makes you happy! Anything you want: a plant, a tree, a food, a person, a cat.

Today is a mental day off. Remember to drink enough water and get enough sleep tonight.  

THERE IS NOTHING GLAMOROUS ABOUT BEING A MEDICAL STUDENT

I hate it when Fine Arts students, Engineering students, Commerce students, Law students etc play down what they do when they hear that I’m a medical student - “Oh no, it’s not as cool/hard/intense as med.”

DUDE. MATE. GIRL. FRIEND.

ARE YOU HEARING YOURSELF?

You are downplaying your achievements, skills, talents, effort, blood sweat tears because you think what you do isn’t as “worthy” as medicine?

HELL NO.

You listen to me, you Arts student - we need people like you in the world to make art. Who else gives us music, beautiful photographs, design, poetry, entertainment, makes the world an aesthetically pleasing place? The world thinks it doesn’t need another artist - and this is why WE NEED THEM.

You listen to me, Law student - DO NOT pretend that you do not slave away at night with your countless readings, trying to make sense of what’s happening. DO NOT deny that you might have some dream of solving some injustice in the world - and if you don’t that’s FINE too - we don’t get into our fields always because we have some noble self-sacrificing goal to attain, sometimes the goal finds us. LET IT FIND YOU.

You listen to me, you Engineering student - just because buildings don’t give you as much grief as humans do does not reduce the amount of work you put into structural balance and beauty. DO NOT let them tell you you are unnecessary.

YOU LISTEN TO ME, FUTURE TEACHERS. I love you. I love that you will one day educate society’s future. I love that years ago a great teacher believed in me, and I still grief over that teacher who didn’t - so GO AND MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.

Pay for his fresh lineup so he looking crisp for the job interviews

Buy him some new sheets cause you know his ass ain’t changin em regularly

get him a couple packs of white and black tees

get him a basket of snacks for when he needs to wind down

Buy him that new game he been looking forward to but can’t afford cuz of his bills

tell him your proud of him when he has mini promotions at work and when he finishes assignments so he can know he doing the damn thing!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070833/

Based on a novel by Iceberg Slim