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your new blog looks great isabela! see you there :')

aw thank you dear!!

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hey guys! so idk why exactly but i felt like i needed a fresh start, so i’m moving to another blog! @odysseyi if you’d like to, please follow me there! <3

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#same

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What does it feel like to be wanted?

it makes you want to stay

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it is easy to learn the aching beauty in isolation in steel blue window frames, sky drifting from white to bruised purple, soft cream scarf billowing in the cooling air yew berries, japanese maple stained red, fennel dried and woven through chain link fences rose hips left among curling leaves. there is loss inked into the streets here, faces ghostly in cherry blossom pink. i take pictures and make it as lovely as i can, all the orange spray paint, gravel cast on the sidewalk, flat light pressing down. people slipping past me in their flapping coats, heads down. strangers dreaming in the motels under dying neon signs, forever just passing through. the scent of fire still lingers on the concrete- there were long days when we could not see the sky for the smoke. now, autumn bleeds out into winter, and there is still no rain. the world goes liminal, and yet i love this, love this lonely bitter peaceful feeling of my life glancing tangent off a thousand other worlds.

quiet//ast. (via oceansabove)

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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (via goodreadss)

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i'm in istanbul, it's 19:58 here and i think about the things i'll purchase when i go to shopping tomorrow lol

hope you’ll be able to get everything you want and need!

sometimes i can’t even sleep well the night before shopping because i keep thinking about all the things that i need and that i don’t need but i’d really like to have ahaha

anonymously tell me where you are, what time it is there and what you’re thinking about

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💫✨ Anonymously tell me where you are, what time it is there and what you're thinking about ✨💫

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Audrey

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How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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my grandma told me something yesterday that pretty much changed my outlook on life. we were having dinner and talking about my future, and how all of my friends seem to be doing so much better than i am, and she looked at me and said “hey, if we all had the same path in life the road would be too crowded” and i haven’t stopped thinking about that since.

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We never worked to find chemistry, it was just sort of organically grown from meeting. We met for the first time and it felt we should have met before or we had met before but without actually meeting. When we met it was like, “I feel like I’ve known you my whole life!” It got to the point where at the moment I see tears in her eyes I kind of start tearing up, even if it was inappropriate for the scene.

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Arc de Triomphe and Notre-Dame de Paris - Paris, France (06.11.2017)

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ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

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I know cafes and coffee shops are heavily romanticized but they really are the best place to be creative, spend time alone, or to just connect with people, I’m just saying

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cole sprouse photographed by dani brubaker for boys by girls