Fishful Thinking

Kindness is a choice. Let's make it.

enrichment doesn’t have to be difficult/expensive/time consuming for most animals. usually you just need to find the right size of cardboard box

Stop delaying joy until life looks a certain way. You're allowed to be happy while you're figuring things out.

a small thing i learned from my sister dying is that i really would rather the people i love be a burden than be whatever the hell else they'd be if they weren't. yes even if it's messy and not always fair and hard completely inconvenient for everyone involved. even if it's weird. even if i'm rolling my eyes a bit inside sometimes. i just want you to bother me. please always bother me

like "it's rotten work" "not to me not if it's you" actually sometimes it's still rotten work. even if it's you. and i'd still do it a million times over

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I think the concept of introversion may have harmed a lot of people, tbh

It makes it easy to make an identity of being scared. And it's easy to hear a loosely medicalized idea like "I am just fundamentally de-energized by social interaction, unlike other people, who aren't", and then dig in. And really you're just scared.

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

I think it's a sharp-lined yellow moth! Sicya macularia