There’s some weird false idea that when you’re working towards being confident or happy or loving yourself you won’t have bad days. You will, and they will be horrible. You will feel like shit and nothing will go right. Those days don’t take away from all your progress or set the tone for your entire journey. Experience those days. It’s okay. Your journey is still valid.
definitely look into getting hydrocolloid adhesive plasters. you can get them at CVS or Walgreens or even Walmart if you look carefully. they’re blister bandages that can be cut into little squares and put over picked pimples or any small infected wounds (such as cuticles, which I’ve got right now) and left on over night or for a few hours and they draw out infections and protect the wound from getting more germs in it. they’re really easy to use and the results are amazing, plus, they’ll keep you from picking already existing wounds, while helping them heal. if you’re using one on your hands, I recommend putting a bandaid over it just to keep it in place just because your hands move around a lot, but other wise they’re self adhesive and don’t need anything else to hold them on.
they’ve helped me a lot and I haven’t seen much about them anywhere so I hope this post helps some people!!
It’s okay to not understand something. It’s okay to have no opinion on something because you don’t have enough information. It’s okay to change your opinion on something when presented with new information. It’s okay to be wrong and then learn what is right. It doesn’t make you weak, stupid or unimportant. Everyone starts out ignorant and no one is enlightened, just correctly or incorrectly informed.
sensitive people are the best at predicting how certain actions might effect others emotionally, and theyre the best at noticing & respecting the feelings of others
> Andrew Hussie is a blessed fountain of wisdom and inanity.
This is really good advice AND a good explanation of why Homestuck is so great.
Although, given the ending, the Lost reference broke my heart. Because Lost was so many good ideas that were never intended to go anywhere, and Homestuck was so many good ideas that were supposed to all add up in the end and then…didn’t.
Don’t ever stop creating. Even if they tell you that you’re wasting your time, don’t let them get you down. Even if the game or book or webcomic you’re working on never becomes a huge hit, it’ll will always mean something to somebody. And if it doesn’t? Who cares? You had fun creating it. And that’s the most important thing of all, right? The things you create should be what you enjoy. For yourself, and yourself only.
if you are reading this you are not in a coma, you are not dead or dreaming. your life is not a lie, your relationships are not a lie, your memories are not a lie. you are not a hallucination or glitch.
you exist.
you are alive.
the world around you exists and keeps turning.
if you can’t trust all of your senses pick one right now you consider the most reliable and stimulate that. for me this is touch and smell. splash water on yourself. eat something comforting. smell dirt outside. play your favourite song on repeat. stare at one panel of a comic book for a long time.
this world is real and so are you. you are real. so take care of yourself.
Ok so this seriously hit home with me and kinda startled me. Thank you.
gah thank you this is so helpful for people who dissociate regularly/have varying psychoses
When people are struggling or afraid to try something, well-meaning people often try to help them by telling them that the thing is easy. This often backfires.
For instance:
Kid: I don’t know how to write a paper! This paper has to be 5 pages long, and we have to do research! It’s so hard!
Parent: Don’t worry. 5 pages isn’t that much. This isn’t such a hard assignment.
In this interaction, the parent is trying to help, but the message the kid is likely hearing is “This shouldn’t be hard. You’re failing at an easy thing.”
If something is hard or scary, it’s better to acknowledge that, and focus on reassuring them that it is possible. (And, if necessary and appropriate, help them to find ways of seeing it as possible.)
For instance:
Kid: I don’t know how to write a paper! This paper has to be 5 pages long, and we have to do research! It’s so hard!
Parent: It’s hard, and that’s ok. You can do hard things.
Parent: What are you writing about?
Kid: Self-driving cars. But I can’t find anything.
And so on.
This isn’t unique to interactions between parents and children. It can also happen between friends, and in other types of relationships.
tl;dr If something’s hard for someone, telling them that it’s easy probably won’t help. Reassuring them that they can do hard things often does help, especially if you can support them in figuring out how to do the thing.
You have to stop thinking about if what your playing is correct. Music is such a broad medium that it’s impossible to be “correct”. You don’t have to play a piece correctly- you just have to convince the audience your way is right.
My chamber coach changing my life today (via kaleran)
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