Light me, Arch!

I just scrolled through #the vitamin because I posted about it in a prev post and. uh

Funniest tag in a while

But also very enlightening

The most common vitamins people discover they actually lack, are:

iron

vitamin D

vitamin b12

With the occasional

dog allergy

mammoths???

sprinkled in

(Also, unless I am mistaken, you seem to have celebrated your birthday recently? If so, happy birthday! I wish you the best in everything you do. Thank you for being here with us!)

20. What do you wish someone would ask you?

Donnnn't ask me anything serious such as 'how the heck are you still sane. you know, lacking The Vitamin™ and all'

But I don't suppose you'd like to know the recipe to tuna grape salad? It's quite unhinged. So maybe don't ask me about that either haha

Oh. You can ask me 'how are your plans to sprout wings going?'

Or my new favorite color! Because I'm not so sure it's orange anymore? Hmmm.

Also shhhhhhh my birthday doesn't exist here hehe

But thank you T_T I'm simultaneously creeped out and incredibly touched that you noticed! So thoughtful!

Love

15. What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

Oh anon. Lol. You caught me in something difficult there.

I uh. I've actually stopped giving advice to others altogether. Like, Idk. If you're someone who has been following me for a long time, you probably remember that I used to make all these grand posts. Telling ppl how to live life and such, based on my own experience.

I uh... I don't really make those anymore. Recent years have made me shut up about other people's lived realities real good. I don't know what to tell them anymore lmao. Because I've been... not wrong, but... vastly unhelpful. I do not 'know' anymore what advice a situation might require. I've tried to listen more, and to get the hang of active listening.

I've also tried, and am in the process to keep trying, to simply be more encouraging and uplifting and trusting people to figure their own stuff out, instead of giving very practical directions. Something I find myself practicing, and repeating a lot, is to say to people that they should be proud of their accomplishments and efforts.

Yeah. That's probably it.

If I'm handing out any advice these days, it's "well done" and "you should be proud of yourself" and "you should reward yourself for this, even for the little things" and "you should do something nice for yourself today". Yep.

I can't really comment on anything else anymore. I can't really tell if my advice was ever wise to someone, or if it was just holier-than-thou. If anything, I lack the ability to distinguish between the two, and so I've severely shrunk the amounts of words I say to others about themselves in case I get it wrong. I do not want to be someone who makes others feel bad about themselves anymore. In the past, I've seemed to have done so by setting impossible demands, and by being too honest.

I want to be someone who just lets people be. It upsets me greatly because it doesn't come natural, and I hate what I've done in the past. Ehhh... I'm gonna be quiet now. What I say is still sincere and hard-earned, and I never mean it lightly.

Thanks for asking anyway, this is a great way to process

Be proud of yourself, and give yourself a little treat today <3 🍀 You deserve it!

Cheers

13. What's something you learned recently?

Ohoho a multitude of things actually!

I learned how to hang a wall cupboard and it's terrifying, I am not likely to ever trust their capacity to hold my dishes ever again

I learned how to better care for my skin. This is honestly huge for me, since no one taught me and I have a difficult skin type that likes to act out with every change of the weather. I feel more comfortable in my body now!

I made some careful attempts to drive again. And it feels really empowering!

It just recently occurred to me that I really did figure out how to care for most plants. Like. Most plants don't die on me anymore. Isn't that amazing????? (I'm happy to share how by the way!)

Call me mainstream (like my sister does lol) but I get my best and favorite music recs from instagram, actually. Current favorites are "Sand Drawing" by Judah Earl and "Extraordinary Moment" by Chilløut.

Surfacing again is Isla Vista Worship, and I've also checked out Zendaya's "Replay". Zendaya and Tom are on my mind often lately because of the massive impact they're having on this generation. They're everywhere, gosh. They're my age after all, too. And I hope they're doing okay as people behind the glam and the glitz.

I've loosely followed Alex Warren, too. That really covers alll the mainstream stuff, doesn't it? My sister calls me basic for it bwahahahaaaaaaaaa

But do you know what SHE'S listening to? The 2009 charts which I already lived through. I am listening to mainstream now because what I like finally MAKES it into the mainstream. I weathered all the bad taste of the 2010s on my Dad's old CDs and NOW I finally get to enjoy some GOOD music OPENLY. The 2020s truly are my era. Fantastic stuff.

Can also recommend Huntrix, Mighty Oaks, and the PHM soundtrack. Those are all... very different. I switch between them based on momentary needs. Oh well.

Which brings me to the question... what do YOU listen to?? I'd love to know! :D

I'm reflecting a lot about the last 10 years of my life at the moment, and I find myself being so PROUD of myself for everything I've accomplished in them!

Moved to one of my favorite towns in the whole wide world

Got 2 degrees

Saw some very nice places on my bucket list

Got my freaking family back. Got healthier in general

Listened to EXCELLENT music

Let me actually turn this into an ask game

Everybody name 2 things you're especially proud of having accomplished within the last decade, then tag as many people as you like!!!