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ask yourself what you want or what you want to do more often, and actually listen to the answer

the more you do the stuff you want do the more you’ll realise nobody around actually cares. i think that realisation is very freeing

@shegoestoanotherschool

Apr 16, 2024

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Talk to yourself the way you’d talk to a friend

Literally have a conversation - ask yourself questions about why you can’t do something and answer them. And know that our brains are terrible at predicting how we will feel after doing something. We’re down and think about going for a walk, which has lifted our spirits before, and our brains tell us it won’t make a difference. Our brains tell us we’ll be happier with some new thing, but when we get the thing we are not happier. I am like you and have a difficult time choosing to change. My brain fights it, too! It sucks.

@bee1000

Feb 9, 2025

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This is a really exciting spot to be in!

Write it out, like you’re doing here! everyone has already said you’re super young so find hope and peace in that whenever you‘re panicking about what you should be doing. Don’t worry too much about love, that’s going to come at its own time. your career will take shape over time and you always have chances to change it. How do I feel grounded (context, i’m 30, feeling decently settled). I constantly make lists of what I need to do or want to do (these are separate!). Today I need to do xyz at work, I need to make plans for this weekend, I need to buy new cat food, I want to work out twice, I want to cook something with zucchini, I want to listen to a new podcast episode Some other things: I always try to have an artistic outlet. I ask questions about things I don’t know (this is everywhere, work, at the cafe, in yoga class, I Google if I’m curious). I go to therapy and when I make goals I only think of my own happiness.

@lyssdri

Jan 22, 2025

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Top Recs from @aranyat

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A massive pot of beans

I really cannot describe how comforting it is to know that whenever I'm hungry I have 3 full taperwares of stewed black beans just sitting in my fridge.

@aranyat

Jan 29, 2024

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showing someone your hometown so they understand your lore

I haven't done this yet, but I'm about to and I'm sort of giddy about it! My high school? The Dairy Queen parking lot? The strip mall where I got stopped by a cop for 'not turning my headlights on fast enough?' The makeout point that abuts the grocery store? Good lord there's so much to see! Please understand these places made me who I am!! There's a whole part of me you haven't met yet!

@aranyat

Jan 26, 2024

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asking your friends about their inner monologues

What voice do they use? Do they refer to themselves in the third or first person? Do they even have one? What songs are stuck in their heads? What intrusive memory keeps them up at odd hours?

@aranyat

Jan 26, 2024