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 donât give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!
it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thingâand then show it off or gift it.
and then so people my age say to me âwellâi canât draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.â yeah, well duhâa part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. uâll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you canât 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 DOESNâT INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.
I recently rewatched gravity falls like im sure everyone else has these past couple months. apparently my partner had never seen it despite us both being the prime demographic at time of airing. they enjoyed it so much we were both hurt there was no more.
we both understand why there can never be a season 3 but the bittersweet "summer is over and we can never come back here" hit more like 500 freight trucks straight to the heart than I remembered...
pet portraits of my sweet babies <3 on starbucks gift cards lol
mr, brooster the rooster wayne
and my sweet-iest ever most darling-est forever pepsi pebble pepper girl <3
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I still have to do the same for the budgies
I'm gonna attach magnets and made a bird bird/ worst bird of the week sign as a silly I promise I don't ever resent or punish anyone, and no one gets special treatment. but sometimes a certain someone poops in her water a bit more than others.
ridiculous weed smoking cat girl miku based off of one of my favourite plush animals, fat cat (adoringly) <3 he is the guardian of my thc vapes and therefore "fat cat ^the vape god"
ridiculous weed smoking cat girl miku based off of one of my favourite plush animals, fat cat (adoringly) <3 he is the guardian of my thc vapes and therefore "fat cat ^the vape god"