STFU and Do Magic

everyone: no you really don’t have to do that, like we might be able to stagger people in quarantine and we could instill a UBI at least temporarily and freeze rents there are ways to save people-

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

You do not owe anyone, not even yourself, a perpetually zen outlook or permanently sunny disposition.  You do not need to face each new setback, warning, or disruption with a smile, a mantra, or an addition to your list of gratitudes. 

If you are sad, if you are angry, if you are afraid, if you feel yourself on the edge of despair – that is not failure.  That is not overreaction.  Shit is weird as hell and it’s going to hit you in odd moments.  That’s okay.  It’s human, and it’s expected.

Let yourself feel this shit.  Don’t beat yourself up about it.  You’re not doing anything wrong.  This is how these things are going to feel.  That’s all there is to it.

This isn’t going to stop you, and it hasn’t stopped you, and it won’t stop you.  You don’t need to be okay to keep going.  You just need to keep going.  And you can keep going, even with all these feelings.

You don’t have to be calm about this.  It’s probably better that you aren’t, at least not all the time.

oh fuck its thursday! credit to @strange-aeons for the lad!

Hospitals find ways when they want to, to avoid helping people when they want to.

“Oh that’s illegal, you should sue” “ with what money and how will I get the time and energy when I’m busy recovering from chemo?”

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world | by spindlemoss, Feb 23 2015 

FUCK YOU DO IT ANYWAY

STAND YOUR GROUND

FIGHT

SPEAK FOR THOSE WITHOUT VOICES

SPEAK SO HISTORY KNOWS WE DID NOT GO MEEKLY INTO THE DARK

BE A LIGHT

BURN IT DOWN

I feel like even body positivity is too focused on, like, the appearance of the body. I know I became a whole lot happier with my body when I started thinking of it less in terms of how it looked (to me or anyone else) and realized, that, like…

When I feel cool breeze on my skin on a really hot day, my body did that for me.

When I step into a bath after a hike, and my muscles ache, but in a good way, and the steam all around me makes me feel like a flower blooming, my body did that for me.

And the hike before it, and standing on a large rock breathing the raw winter air seeing the power of the half-frozen river. That too.

When I’ve had a plate of pasta puttanesca, and I chopped and sauteed the ingredients and now I’m full-but-not-uncomfortable, and warm all over, and perfectly content, my body did that for me.

And then he said, “The important thing is to find something you feel good about doing.”

That phrasing struck me. “Something you feel good about doing”. Most people would have phrased it as “something you enjoy doing”. Or “something you’re good at doing”. But Mr. Rogers’ subtly different phrasing leads to a profoundly different connotation. “Something you feel good about doing” may not be enjoyable–people who work in hospitals or in disaster zones might not enjoy much of their day, but they probably feel good about helping people. “Something you feel good about doing“ may not be something you’re particularly good at–you may be a terrible artist by any objective standard, but if you feel good about making your art, then it’s a worthwhile endeavor. Looking for “something you feel good about doing” can help you find a truly satisfying life path.