The One Problem I Have With People My Age And Younger Is That A Lot Of Us Do Not Have Hands On Hobbies.

the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

I didn’t think Kaz was an alcoholic? I know he drinks but...

the people who followed me for soc content 🤡

(i will still do soc but im proud of this hehe)

Inej: Isn’t it weird how we pay to see other people?

Jesper: you mean prostitution, concerts or movies?

Inej: glasses...

wylan: *hands Jesper bottle of

water*

jesper: *drinking it* thanks but

what's this for?

wylan: Nina says you get thirsty

around me

jesper: *chokes on water*

Jesper: we can’t mansplain, manipulate, or malewife our way out of this situation!

Kaz *cocks gun*: manslaughter it is