I Post This Every Year But It’s Worth It To Remind Myself To Plant Flowers, In The Garden And In My

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Angel of radical truth

right now i'm in a crisis where i have no idea what my style is and it's driving me insane you have no idea.

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

FINALLY PEOPLE ARE REALIZING HOW COOL LIBRARIES AND THEIR LIBRARIANS ARE!!!!

Guess who just bought $73.10 worth of books. 😃

Still worth it though.

i'm struggling so much with who i am it's like super painful. 😃

YES! A GOVERMENT THAT REALIZES THAT THE EARTH MATTERS MORE THAN A CURRENT PROFIT OF IT! (x) July 16, 2021

my natural time that my body goes to sleep is around 1 to 2 am and this affects my day to day life a lot.