Pluviophile🌧️

it's keep your wits about you wednesday

summer thunderstorms are one of the most romantic things in the world, actually

It bugs me when people are unnecessarily mean. Like, you didn’t have to make that comment. You could have just kept your mouth shut and left that person not feeling bad about themselves. What do you gain from making someone else feel like shit? Nothing of substance. Maybe a fleeting moment of power but that’s gone as soon as it comes so why? There’s enough unhappiness in the world without you adding to it.

People don't know how to act when you make it clear that you have no interest in living their definition of a "normal life"

You have to do more things for fun. Especially if you have anxiety. Just do very random things for fun. Because your mind shouldn’t be the only thing deciding what your life feels like. So try and break that cycle by doing small, unnecessary, slightly ridiculous things on purpose. Your nervous system will thank you even if your thoughts complain the whole time. And you don’t even have to succeed at it, you just have to try at it. That alone is enough to break a pattern of letting overthinking decide the size of your world. Even if just for a moment.

Sometimes things are just horrible. Terrible. Scary as shit. Sometimes they make you feel worse. Sometimes things change for the worse and there is nothing good a person can take from it, and that doesn’t mean you’re failing. Sometimes it’s better to just accept things were awful than to force yourself to feel better with toxic positivity.

and I say that as someone who feels that radical acceptance is a really good thing: by accepting that something awful is happening that is largely out of your control can allow you to figure out that tiny margin of things that are in your control instead of spiraling because you wish you could change things you can’t. the post above is a snippet of a longer post I wrote about the pandemic. So I’ll use that as an example: a huge part of the pandemic was out my control, and I could not change the whole world or make the disease go away, but I could still wear a mask or vaccinate and get help when I needed it and try to help others too.

the strongest bond is probably pad wings to themselves. the weakest is probably pad wings to your underwear

You are, to an extent, responsible for creating the magic in your own life. You have to create some to see some, you have to act on the faith that magic is not just something that happens to you, but something you build through what you do. It’s not always just chance, It is something that you have to actively participate in. That’s how you make loving and living life something you do, not something you wait for.