🌼☀️🌻🌞

[I.D. nine transparent image of cabbage, lettuce, and other similarly shaped leafy greens in varying shades of green. some have fanning out leaves, some are condensed into orbs, and others have been sliced in half. end I.D.]

[ID: a mug of iced coffee.]

Please slow down this year. Please don’t live another year in fastforward. I don’t think any of us can take another year of that. Let’s learn to slow down, learn to brush our teeth slower, learn to eat slower, learn to look around more, learn to unclench our jaws and drop our shoulders, learn that this is not a rush, no matter how much society wants us to believe it is. I absolutely refuse to live another day under the palm of urgency, like my worth is measured in how quickly I can move, how efficiently I can exist, how much of myself I can compress into something easily digestible. I will take up space, I will need things and want things, I will be a human being this year, not just a ghost passing through, not just something that makes sense to everyone else. I’ll be as much of me I need and want to be.

[ID: a pile of mulberries in varying colors.]

[ID: a cup of tea with flowers in it, accompanied by a book, a basket of strawberries, and more flowers.]

[ID: smiling plush latte in a red mug with hearts on it.]

[ID: a heart-shaped gap between trees, a cross section of a heart-shaped log, a heart-shaped mossy rock in the water, and flowers arranged into a heart on grass.]

[ID: animated pixel art of a cat sitting at a bus stop surrounded by trees, with the leaves rustling in the breeze.]

I hope times get easier for you soon, and until they do, I hope you hang on the best you can and that you are proud of yourself for doing that. Hanging on is no small feat. 🌸

a big part of being happy is being excited. be excited for everything - making a cup of tea, decorating your future apartment, seeing a friend again, falling in love unexpectedly, the next episode of a show you like, finishing something stressful, buying something you’ve been saving up for, a new album, sunsets, traveling, road trips, and the feeling of going to bed after a long day. think of something to be excited about and daydream about it often when you’re sad.

[ID: animated pixel graphic of a strawberry plant bordered by pink flowers with butterflies flying around.]

[ID: illustration of apple pie and a green teapot and mug with apples on them, with whole and half apples scattered around.]

[ID: anime gif of a steaming cup of tea.]

[ID: two cloth-covered jars of berries.]

[ID: cinnamon rolls and a cup of coffee.]

[ID: gif of tea being poured into a cup.]