protect the youth ♡

How do I explain Plato's allegory of the cave to my cat?

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[ID: The first is an image of Canada and Mexico with the United States edited out that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream". The second image is an image of North America with all lands labelled with the names of the tribes living on them that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream".]

This is actually the most important thing I’ve seen this year

Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

S++ tier addition to the post, thank you tumblr user butts bouncing on the beltway

I hate when ppl act shocked that rappers know "high brow" cultural references. It's so condescending "this dumb black guy knows about art" as if they're not the main producers of modern culture.

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies

"childlike sense of wonder" this and that. Personally, I'm cultivating my elderly sense of wonder. Hence my excitement over a perfectly ordinary bird in my backyard or an above-average-sized vegetable.

being a timebomb shipper is realizing that the peak m/f ship dynamic is when they're both incredibly cool together and are actually cooler together and you actually want both of them carnally. no more of that pathetic guy with tall hot wife trope. no more of that one is more something than the other. no more it's because they're both bisexual. timebomb is the great equalizer of m/f ships, they are both cool, both hot, both competent, and both the smartest people in any given room. they match each other limb for limb and thought for thought; what greater love is there than to be equals in arms and without a need for each other because you are only fueled by desire to have that person there, not to make up for a lack of anything but because you compliment each other beyond anyone else's comprehension.

I love you, but I myself more