whimsikit

i love this so much!!!!

after it has been new, scary and uncomfortable, it’s going to be okay. isn’t that what we’re doing it for?

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

I encourage you to be just a 🤏 smidge more of a little weirdo than you were yesterday ✨

this isn’t a “blog” we are having tea together. do you take sugar

You will hurt people. You either learn it the hard way or not but regardless how you learn it. It is okay, really. As a wise friend of mine says you are not defined by a single trait, by a single breakdown or by a single fight. Give yourself grace for your self-destructive tendancies because getting more frustrated will only worsen them. They don't mean you are unlovable, you just need to trust yourself so you can trust what others say too. You will get there, everyday is a new day to try.

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

Hope is punk. Despair is corporate.

no one is coming to save yo- wrong!! everyone who has ever shown you love and/or care is saving you a little bit.

no one is comi - wrong!! someone always comes! the uber driver came to take me to my new apartment. my kindergarten teachers came to teach me how to count and read. all the people who researched, wrote and edited my favourite books came to share a new way of thinking about the world. enough of this individualist bullshit, someone always comes. fred rogers was right, we were all loved into being. someone always comes.