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Stranger things have happened

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"We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that."— J.K. Rowling
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timeaway

I need to go into the forest and scream for an hour and a half

So a friend of mine does this. He literally drives three hours into the middle of no wear in the forest in the mountains on some back road that is protected so no hunters and has no houses by it for miles and miles and he picks a time at night when no sane person is going to be out there and he just screams.

He screams. and screams and screams and honesty it’s been better for him than any therapy he’s ever been thru. He screamed all his fears into the dark and now he’s a lot more well adjusted. Stronger. More sure of himself. He’s not afraid of the dark anymore. If it was anyone else I’d say that this whole story sounds pretty “serial killer-ish” but I know him and I know that screaming into the dark only made him more good and more tolerant of other people.

I highly recommending going to a forest and screaming.

#Shout Those Goddamn Fears Right Out Of Your Body

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traitor

going into a dark forest in the middle of the night to scream??? um fuck that shit ! y'all can have fun getting murdered

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There are 4 things I learned when I was 25:

You do not have to be affectionate all the time to care for someone, in fact, caring can also mean a couple of texts or silence for a few days while you both live your lives happily and separately.

People do not care for you less when they’re busy with their own lives. It’s your reaction to them being their own person - and your ability to make yourself happy - that determines how they feel about you.

Not everyone reciprocates to your actions the same way. If you want someone to acknowledge, be interested in, or treat you a certain way for your efforts, all you have to do is let them know. They will try their personal best to accommodate that within their personal spectrum of feelings.

No one owes you 100% of them, not even after 30 years, because someone having a percentage of themselves is what keeps them sane at the end of the day and that’s okay.

These things are so important to learn.

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You know what’s real. I’ve had a billion things to do this week. I’m running on minimal sleep. I’m physically and mentally drained. I don’t want to be at uni. Not. At. All. I wanna be at home in asleep. But here I am at uni. Because motivation isn’t what should drive you. If you are only driven by motivation you won’t get far. You aren’t always going to be motivated. What really gets you through is looking beyond the crappy time, knowing this is temporary. Work beyond it. Even when it’s hard. Know that this struggle. This lack of sleep. This stress. This anxiety. This hurt. This pain. It’s temporary. All of it. Temporary.

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daedalush1

YOU KNOW DESPITE MY SOCIAL ANXIETY MEETING SOMEONE NEW IS ACTUALLY AN AMAZING THING BECAUSE YOU MAY BE MEETING YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND OR YOUR NEXT MURDER VICTIM OR YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND OR SOMETHING AND IT’S JUST REALLY NEAT HOW THAT ALL WORKS OUT

murder victim

did i fuckin stutter u know what ur on ur way to becoming just that

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kvothes

on the first day of class my astronomy professor asked us why the night sky was dark. if our universe is infinite, how can there be spaces between the stars? he didn’t answer the question until the last day– because our universe is relatively young, and is still growing. it is finite. not enough stars or galaxies have been formed to fill up the entire night sky.

but what that means to me is that somewhere, in an older universe, the night sky looks like a tapestry of diamonds. somewhere darkness is pale white and glittering. imagine being so surrounded. i haven’t gotten that image out of my head ever since– you could never navigate under such a sky but god it sounds lovely

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sseoulful

Daydreaming about alternative lives to escape my own has become a coping mechanism which I have internalised so much that it happens unconsciously throughout the day. I’ll be always daydreaming in the back of my head no matter what I do

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IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME AT MY WORST, JUST REMEMBER THAT I HANDLE ME AT MY WORST AND THAT MAKES ME STRONGER THAN YOU

Oh my goodness this makes me feel powerful I hadn’t even thought of it like this.