Layla 🌸

if you’re reading this drink some water

this felt like a hallucinogen-induced trip

Ok, see. I like coffee a lot, but the smell?? The smell is so much better. Why can’t it taste like it smells. I just want to know what coffee smell tastes like. Is that really to much to ask? Please

the urge to fix my life starting today but its a saturday. i'll start on monday

Finding a fresh new daydreaming plot is honestly the best feeling.

Actually, I think girls in middle school and high school should still feel comfortable having fuzzy pillows and lava lamps and glitter pens and sequin tops and a colorful wardrobe and whatever else they think is pretty or cool. Maybe we shouldn’t, like, try to beat the personality and life out of the youngsters, neither should we expect them to act like anything other than their actual age.

its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.

Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!

I was a high school drop out and didn’t go to college until I was within a month of my 40th birthday. While there I changed my major twice. Then I taught art long enough to earn retirement. Before college I’ve worked in dog kennels, as a cashier, a dental assistant, a vet assistant, electronics assembly,  a machinist in the military, picking up trash in a state park and as locksmith at a university. After teaching I worked night shift as a securety guard. Life is freaking adventure, not a locked grid you must move from one square to another. Take a chance, If you fail, get back up, dust yourself off and try something new. 

Your life is not over at 25. You can continue to learn and engage with hobbies and change your life path and meet new people. Get rid of this idea that what you decide to do at 18 is gonna be what you do for life

As someone who freaks out at times about this kind of thing in my final year of university, this really helped.

After 14 years I changed careers and I’m starting over from an entry level position at the ripe age of 38. But it’s AWESOME. I thought I would be a college professor for life. Instead I’m in marketing right now. I’m not sure where I’ll be in five or ten years, but I’m open to whatever awaits me and I know that whatever I’m doing doesn’t have to be for forever.

People are so fixated on the idea that if men are the oppressors (and now that I think about it this applies to abusers too) they’d never feel angry and sad and that no man would ever act like a victim. There’s just this unquestioned assumption that men are so filled with dignity and machismo that they’d never try to guilt trip women by trying to appear vulnerable and confused. For decades men have been playing on the repressed emotions bullshit and the “no woman trusts me with her kids :(” and the “men are suffering even worse than women but unlike them we just have too much dignity to come forward.” “No man would ever lie about being a victim, they care too much about being masculine.” The ultimate act of masculinity isn’t being a strong, stoic, tough guy it’s manipulating women through whatever means necessary.

u all ever lose the ability to socialize in the middle of a convo like.... ok i’m done now there’s no more words in here brain shutting off

I am literally begging, BEGGING modern media to portray healthy relationships. enough cheating. enough infidelity. enough disrespect. show me people who love each other, proper communication, and a strong mental as well as physical connection. I want plots about people who are madly in love with each other and STAY madly in love with each other. please. I am losing my mind.

Myself @ me: you need to wake up earlier so you don’t waste the day Me @ myself: sorry I was sleeping and just saw this lol wyd