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RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.
When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn’t get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.
I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.
“What are you struggling with?” he asked.
I gestured around me and said “I dunno man. Life.”
Not satisfied with my answer, he said “No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?”
I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn’t want to say it.
I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.
But I didn’t.
So I told him, “Honestly? The dishes. It’s stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I’ll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes.”
I felt like an idiot even saying it.
What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I’m whining to my therapist about dishes?
But my therapist nodded in understanding and then said:
“RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.”
I began to tell him that you’re not supposed to, but he stopped me.
“Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules.”
It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express.
That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.
I felt like I had conquered a dragon.
The next day, I took a shower lying down.
A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.
There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.
Now that I’m in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.
But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:
THERE ARE NO RULES.
RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!
(by Kate Scott 2018)
Alternate option: Thad is Lizzy’s twin brother
Chat so I'm just silliying a little and I thought...
Drones could have siblings, yk...
Sooo
All Polls / Other Family Members Polls
If any of the options that don't include the last two win, that means that I'll make another poll to see if Thad is STILL part of Lizzy's close family.
Also for "That is Lizzy's older brother" it means that Thad is her ONLY brother. Just clearing some possible confusion.
If in that poll Thad ISN'T her brother, he's her (older) cousin.
BECAUSE LOOK AT THEM. A popular lesbian and a popular male pansexual, of course they are related!
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mannn I forgot to post this here
'Break the news'
REBLOGGING BECAUSE RUSSIA CAN’T
when she says she doesn’t send nudes
Lmk season one: “Oh no! We must defeat the Demon Bull King with our super awesome mechs (now available at your local LEGO store)”
Lmk season five: “Don’t kill yourself. There is more to live for than just your end. Nihilism will only make you more miserable. Focus on what’s happening now, the journey has always been the most important part. Also we have these super awesome mechs (now available at your local LEGO store)”
"Do you remember it J?"
An idea that came to me one night