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Actively seek out things that inspire wonder

Look for the good parts. There are good parts. There are interesting parts. There will always be good and interesting parts.

Treat yourself kindly. This one is difficult.

Do things out of ridiculous whimsy.

Practice cog itive behavioural exercises to self-examine and address beliefs and behaviors that are causing suffering.

Don't argue when people compliment you.

Don't rush yourself, and don't assume it'll be like this forever when you have a backslide. These things happen. Over time, they happen less.

Be honest with the people you love and trust.

Tell people how much they mean to you and what you like about them.

Help others and find satisfaction in being the stranger that did something good

Consider speaking to a medical professional, my antidepressants and anti-anxiety medical took some time to figure out but life is WAY better.

Have a silly little craft or hobby.

Let yourself be bored sometimes. Stand outside in the rain and let yourself get wet. Go on a walk. Put your phone in a different room and wander off. Meet up with a friend and go on a long walk together to nowhere in particular

Start doing things because you want to and it feels good, not just because you think it's something you should say yes to.

Say yes to things.

Take a random day of the week and go into a store or a business you've never been in before.

Compliment strangers when something about them is striking.

Read books and watch movies that make you feel the exact right amount of ecstatic and embarrassed, and make all the silly noises about it.

Collect scraps of fabric and little trinkets and all the little textures and colours you love and stash them in a shoebox or something like a tiny dragon's hoard.

Start a collection of something small and inexpensive. Like corks.

Make food with ingredients you've never used before

Make long lists of all your favorite things- flowers, bugs, songs, foods, places

Start a trash-book to fill with scraps of neat wrappers and bits of paper and colored fabric from old ruined clothes

Imagine yourself as a alien from a dead and barren world who has just arrived on this planet for the very first time and imagine how excited you would be by every little thing

Can you hold me up 'Cause I ain't strong enough right now For the both of us And I don't wanna let you down

technically it's a real apartment, I've just tweaked a couple things about the building to suit me better. the floor plan was pulled directly from the website, so don't stress overmuch about the exact furniture displayed. it's also why the bedroom doors look so fkn weird on the layout, the RL apartment has these monstrosities installed that we are Not acknowledging because I think they're awful:

the house had three bedrooms, and there are three residents on the lease, so it was blindly assumed by their uh. new friends. that three bedrooms were required when getting a new place. Laila & Cat have the bedroom with the private bath (top right in original pic). Jean is in the lower left room.

every other place these kids (foxes included) have stayed is based on someplace I've lived; this is the first place that's truly new to me so I needed a reference to rely on. I am Not a visual person whatsoever. unasked-for addition: the difference in distance to campus (X is not precise, just general vicinity).