Expect the worst, hope for the best

well, what i was getting at was really more like you should get out of the house more, socialize, meet people, these are all proven ways to deal with depression, try to distract yourself with fun activities, i get this is what you work as but there is a difference between performing and watching someone else perform, my point is, surely there are other clowns in town mr pagliacci

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

Genuinely I think repeatedly making "I'm so brave for (doing mildly uncomfortable thing)" jokes is actually really building my resilience, because when I accomplish an actually difficult task I'm then suddenly euphoric and then chasing the high of accomplishing more tasks.

TEASING MYSELF WITH PATIENCE AND COMPASSION has evolved into STRAIGHT-UP TRICKING MYSELF INTO RESPONDING TO MY OWN POSITIVE FEEDBACK!

additionally i think a lot of us remain helplessly dependent on self flagellation and punishment believing it to be discipline/self control because we are not taught to believe that care and deliberate healing and patience and attention are disciplines themselves

you ever listen to a song 47 times in a row and every time you’re like wow what a good song. I’m gonna play it again.

if you work in a store you should be able to take home one free item for every time a customer is rude to you. i bet that would get companies to take measures to make grown adults behave themselves

i hate being the bigger person why cant i say why are you being mean to me and burst into tears dramatically

Franchement je suis peut être matrixé mais si aujourd'hui tu veux une gauche à minima respectable qui peut gagner des élections c'est LFI. Je ne suis pas une zinzinsoumis mais bon à part eux il y a PERSONNE.

All my mutuals are hot. Reblog to tell your mutuals they are hot.

strong agree. along this same vein, I was thinking recently how deeply ironic it is that the YA author beloved by sensitive teen girls everywhere that actually did get run off the platform on suspicion of being an abuser and then had his work overcritiqued by amateur psychoanalysts ad nauseum was... John Green. Who, as about a decade of ensuing time with no actual concrete accusations has shown, as far as anyone can tell, did literally none of that shit and it was all hearsay. People came after him with the fucking pitchforks and Actual Rapist Neil Gaiman was on this website sitting pretty the whole damn time. Which really drives the point home that you cannot fucking tell who is an abuser by analyzing other seemingly-innocent things about them. Abusers look and act like normal-ass people, and the only thing that you will accomplish if you get hypersensitive to those kinds of subtle and unrelated "tells" is wrongly ostracizing regular folks who literally did nothing wrong.