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dont underestimate the power of kindness. strength is not being cold hearted and aloof, it’s being amicable in the face of bitterness or gentle with those who need to be loved. so please, if nothing else, be kind.

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

I hope you guys like…eventually live the life you want to live and I hope nothing haunts you for too long and I hope you’re all kind to yourselves

my word of the year is going to be delight.

to be delighted by everything i do and put effort in. by the people i meet and the connections i form, by those i love now and those i have yet to meet.

to be conscious about life, to enjoy it and to be mesmerized each day. both grateful for the past and excited for the future, but never forgetting the present, and how important it is to make the most out of it.

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

Just a friendly reminder

1. You are not your grades.

2. You are allowed to do less than your best sometimes.

3. When your mental health is in the balance, submit the work you’ve done. Or walk away and come back. If your work is less than perfect this one time, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to excel.

4. It is okay to ask for an extension. Check your prof’s policies in the syllabus, but sometimes profs will give you an extension just for asking 24 hours in advance of the deadline. No explanations needed.

5. Even when you fail, you will still be able to succeed. One failure does not make you a failure.

6. You will not be seen as less worthy because of one less-than-perfect grade.

7. Your character is not determined by the work you produce.

8. If you forget to submit an assignment, you’ll be okay. Learn from it, and put it behind you.

9. As Newt Scamander put it, ‘worrying only means you suffer twice.’ Learn to let go.

10. Sleep. Eat. Drink water. Breathe. Scream if you have to, cry if you want to. Remind yourself you are human, and you are alive.

11. Dance to songs you love. Buy yourself a flower just because. You deserve happiness, regardless of anything that happened.

12. It is not weakness to ask for help. If you feel like you need to reach out, do so.

13. You are more than a letter on an assignment. You are a valued human being. And I believe in you.

i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.

so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.

so you dated the wrong person and learned a hard lesson. you chose the wrong major and had to start over again. you cherished a friend who backstabbed you. it sucks, but it’s also going to work out. that’s life; you learn, hurt, love, cry, laugh, and keep going. you experience setbacks and you grow and it’s all okay.

PROLOGUE  this is not a story that’s been told before yes, it is the story of boy meets girl but there is so much more; there are secrets uncovered like a blanket ripped off in the early morning hours;  there are unbelievable things like if a chapter out of your favorite science fiction novel were to come to life;  there are wicked creatures, there are villains, there are things that no one would believe to be true even if they were to see them with their own two eyes but in the heart of it all there is a boy and a girl.

THE BOY he is often lost in tales of fantasy and fiction to avoid living in the real world (a world that treats him like the gum on the bottom of one’s sneaker) and he had no idea that in meeting her,  his favorite comic book stories would soon become his own story.

THE GIRL she is strange, unlike any other a little broken bird who lost her way a walking question mark, vying for answers not even realizing that all of her answers  were answered when her eyes met his.

CHAPTER ONE boy meets girl, and boy cannot believe that someone like her would even give him the time of day she is incredible, breathtaking, out of this world she is the heroine he would happily be her sidekick if it meant he could follow her to hell and back.

CHAPTER TWO she doesn’t understand things like friendship or love her life was defined by grey walls, confined in a square existence full of abuse and pain and lies  before she met him she never realized that there were people in this world who could be gentle with someone as fragile as her.

CHAPTER THREE she teaches him about a world unknown to most and he teaches her about trust and truth and she teaches him about loss.

CHAPTER FOUR boy loses girl, and boy spends his days in a haze  his mind clouded with only thoughts of her  worrying and waiting

CHAPTER FIVE girl loses boy, and girl spends her days in a daydream where he is with her and she is with him.

CHAPTER SIX it took three hundred and fifty-three days for them to find each other again and it was just as brilliant  and life changing as their very first meeting.

CHAPTER SEVEN their story opened and was sealed  by a single word:

“promise” | inspired by: x (cc, 2018)

“1. take pictures of your friends. take pictures with your friends. take as many pictures as you possibly can. even if they start to get annoyed with you, even if either of you feel “ugly” that day, even if you just took one the other day. because a day is going to come where all you’ll have is pictures and wishing you had more than what you’re left with hurts just as badly as losing them. 2. do the thing that scares you. do the thing that you’ve always wanted to do but have always been too scared to try. don’t force yourself if it doesn’t feel right but don’t be scared to try new things. as cheesy and cliche as it sounds, stepping out of your comfort zone, even for a moment, is worth it. regret is not. 3. it’s okay to hurt. if it hurts, that means it mattered. 4. sometimes, when something breaks, it cannot be fixed. there was nothing you could have done to make them change their mind, nothing you could have said to make them stay. the two of you broke apart, but that doesn’t mean you are broken. 5. heal, mourn, grieve. let yourself feel. don’t try to force the healing, it’ll come naturally, when it’s time. 6. there are going to be days when all you do is lay in bed, drink coffee, and refresh various social media apps. that’s okay. you’re allowed to rest, you’re allowed to do nothing. you don’t have to validate doing nothing. 7. you’re going to face a fear you didn’t even know you had. but you won’t have to face it alone. 8. don’t keep it all in your head. let the bad thoughts out to make room for the good ones. 9. whatever you think you did, whether it be in this life or a past life, to deserve suffering and pain does not exist. you don’t deserve to hurt. you don’t deserve to make yourself hurt. you don’t deserve to suffer. you don’t deserve to make yourself suffer. 10. you’re going to do things, you’re going to make decisions, you’re going to make yourself see things or read things that are going to hurt you. self harm isn’t limited to bruises or bleeding; you’re hurting yourself by caring about someone who doesn’t care about you anymore. that’s not to say that you should stop caring about them, but you should definitely stop checking their twitter account in the middle of the night. 11. you don’t need to look like anyone else to be a certain kind of person. you’re you and you are enough just the way you are. 12. get outside and lose yourself beneath the rays of the sun, escape to a place where it doesn’t hurt as badly as it does inside your house. 13. you’re gonna screw up, but that doesn’t make you a screw up. 14. it’s okay to set boundaries, it’s okay to distance yourself from others. it doesn’t make you a bad person, it doesn’t make you mean. it’s okay to put your own needs and wants above others. it doesn’t mean you don’t care, but you need to care about yourself first. 15. there was a person you thought you could never live without. and you will be without them. and you will still be alive. 16. you know what will make you feel worse, and you know what might make you feel slightly better – even if it doesn’t work 100%, it’s still better than doing the wrong thing. these choices are yours, so make the right one all of the time. 17. family isn’t always blood. sometimes, family can be the people who choose you and who keep on choosing you, not because they have to but because they want to. this isn’t a family you’re born into, but rather a family you find and create for yourself. 18. home isn’t four walls and a roof over your head, but rather someone that makes you feel safer than any building can. 19. happiness won’t always be so far and few. 20. never underestimate just how healing a car ride with your best friend can be. 21. you matter. you really do. 22. hope isn’t silly and though sometimes slippery, never stop clinging to it. 23. try taking your own advice from time to time. allow yourself to grieve, to be wounded, to cry, to hurt. allow yourself to heal. try to remember that one day, having all of this hope won’t have been for nothing and start promising yourself the things you promise others; that it’s going to be okay, genuinely and sincerely. because it’s the truth. you survived this year, you’ll survive the next.”

— 23 things i learned at 23 // happy birthday to me (cc, 2017)

I hope something unexpectedly good happens to you this week.

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

once you stop fantasizing about that ideal version of yourself and start working towards becoming that person by setting your alarm clock earlier and actually going to the gym and actually volunteering at places and actually eating healthier and not procrastinating and working just a little bit harder you’ll realize that it was so easy all along. becoming your ideal self will only ever exist in your mind until you make the decision to work towards becoming that person. get up!! get going!! it’s now or never!! there is no light at the end of the tunnel!! get that flashlight and pave your own path bitch bc no one else is going to do it for u!!

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

The Good War: How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience

by Mike Dawson and Chris Hayes

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this is one of my favorite keeks of all time because calum is just sO DRUNK AND HE GENUINELY BELIEVES THATS HIS MICROWAVE AND GETS SO OFFENDED WHEN ASHTON AND LUKE TELL HIM OTHERWISE

omg I’m doing research for one of projects for college, and apparently, girls learn better when they’re in an all girls class, but boys learn even worse when they’re in an all boys class, because all the negative things become even stronger of there are no girls to act as “buffer”

get rid of the boys and let girl learn in peace, i couldn’t care less about them

Transition Words For Your Essays

Transition Signals:

Transitions are words and phrases that connect ideas and show how they are related.

To repeat and ideas just stated:

In other words,

That is,

To repeat,

Again,

To illustrate an idea:

For example,

For instance,

In particular,

To illustrate,

In this manner,

Thus,

To announce a contrast, a change in direction:

Yet,

However,

Still,

Nevertheless,

On the other hand,

In contrast,

Instead of,

On the contrary,

Conversely,

Notwithstanding,

In spite of this,

Time:

At once,

In the interim,

At length,

Immediately,

At last,

Meanwhile,

In the meantime,

Presently,

At the same time,

Shortly,

In the end,

Temporarily,

Thereafter,

To restate an idea more precisely:

To be exact,

To be specific,

To be precise,

More specifically,

More precisely,

To mark a new idea as an addition to what has been said:

Similarly,

Also,

Too,

Besides,

Furthermore,

Further,

Moreover,

In addition,

To show cause and effect:

As a result,

For this reason,

Thereafter,

Hence,

Consequently,

Accordingly,

Conclusion:

In short,

To conclude,

In brief,

On the whole,

In summary,

To sum up,

a realistic study mood

you get home at 4, you planned to do your homework the moment you got home, you lay in your bed, you open your phone and begin to scroll, your phone alerts you you’re on low battery, you look at the clock, it’s now 7, you panic, you start your homework. you keep getting distracted it’s now 12, you plan to not do the same the next day.

“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” - Stephen Graham Jones

 just posted my [November Bullet Journal Plan With Me!] on my youtube channel @studywithinspo​ check it out!

libgen.io has pretty much every book ever written from novels to textbooks. because bookstore prices are wild sometimes

great things are done by a series of small things brought together 

Some physics-flashcards I made for my big exam tomorrow (wish me luck)

☼Listening to: Place we were made - Maisie Peters