exercise is a celebration of what you can do. not a punishment for what you ate.

Going to leave you with this tonight: The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cates, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

still living with my parents as an adult is just like. i'm grateful to not have to pay for groceries. i have to get out of here. i'm grateful to have a roof over my head and not have to pay rent. i have to get out of here. i'm grateful to not have to worry about sending out endless job applications that all lead to nowhere. i have to get out of here. i'm grateful i'm grateful i'm so fucking grateful. i have to get out of here

People love to say "be yourself" until yourself is complicated, emotional, opinionated, healing, changing, grieving, loud, or inconvenient.

You need to be attention-span-maxing. Watch 3 hour talks. Read books for hours at a time. Watch the entire movie, without taking a break. Stare into space losing yourself in thought and imagination. Do not check your phone. The opposite of brain-rot is the will to focus in a culture which wants to pull you every other way.

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A salary is a drug they give you to forget your dreams.

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.

sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. you literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. you have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. the easy path does not exist. there is no get out of jail free card. you have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. and you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. it’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

I love being optimistic. Like why wouldn't things work out for me? I've survived every version of myself that thought it was over. I've rebuilt from silence, from disappointment, from being underestimated. So yes, I expect good things.Not because I'm delusional, but because I refuse to believe the universe only hands out miracles to other people. My story isn't unlucky. It's unfolding.

make yourself so busy, so disciplined, so determined that you don't have time to know what's happening in other people's lives, making pointless comparisons, or irrational opinions. stay focused and devoted to yourself.

once you decide you want a good life, the universe will start moving things for you to have it. the people you need will appear, the doors you need will open. but not until you decide. once you truly, sincerely decide

become obsessed with the fact that your potential is endless and your ability to grow is infinite, you can be anything and everything you want, twin.

My husband just told our son, who was picking on his little sister, "it is your job as a future man to listen and respect people's boundaries. You will often be bigger than others and it is unkind to use your size against them. She said stop. You will stop." I've never heard another man, at least in my family, say anything like that I hope we raise good humans.

Be chalant. Care deeply, speak openly, express things fully. The internet made everyone believe sincerity is cringe and emotional distance is maturity. Meanwhile the people actually enjoying life are the ones allowing themselves to be excited, emotional, passionate, invested. Existing like you are too cool to care about anything is such a dull way to experience being alive.

Between 25 and 30, a man faces his hardest battles, not with the world, but with himself. You realize the mistakes you've repeated for years and start breaking each cycle, one by one This is the age where men either transform into kings or remain slaves to their past forever.

In Italy, recovery often starts with rest, sunlight, and real food. In Scandinavia, people still walk outside in freezing weather because fresh air is seen as medicine. In Japan, doctors encourage forest walks to calm the nervous system. In New Zealand, nature time is literally prescribed. The body heals better when it feels connected to nature, not disconnected from it.

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE CERTAIN I AM THAT WE KNEW EXACTLY WHO WE WERE WHEN WE WERE LITTLE, AND THEN ADULTS TALKED US OUT OF IT