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How To Be A Better Person Pt. 2 Being Honest With Yourself
This is the most important step in becoming the best version of yourself; a good person. You might ask, "If this is the most important step, why isn't it first?" That's because you needed to test yourself. You needed to see that you are willing to self-reflect and be honest with yourself with an outsider's guidance before you'd be willing to hear from an outsider that you're not being honest with yourself.
You might ask, "If I'm completely honest, it's going to be with myself, right?" Wrong. You will be the first person to convince yourself that you are doing the right thing, that you're "actually being nice", or that you're "just being brutally honest". You don't want to believe that you're not a good person, or that your actions could be portrayed as bad. You will be the first person to be dishonest with yourself.
It's no secret that feeling bad isn't a good feeling. Everyone makes justifications for certain actions and behaviors. It's perfectly normal that you do as well, as long as you try to be more aware of what you say and do to others and actively try to do things in a more pleasing manor.
For example, there is never a reason to be "brutally honest". A good person has no need for brutality. If you intention is ever to be "brutally honest", then you don't have good intentions.
Say a family memeber's own actions have contributed to them being in a long-term depression. It would be horribly unkind of you to tell that family member, "You're a lazy slob who aspires for more than you're willing to put the effort into achieving." Instead, try saying in a positive, uplifting tone: "Hey, Uncle Josh, did you know the local tattoo shop has a booth open? I talked to the owner, he doesn't know you, so you're good to talk to him. I'm sure you'd feel really good having some of your own money, instead of having my mom always telling you 'no' when you ask her for $15 dollars and having her accuse you of only asking because you want liquor." Phrase it in a way that makes people WANT to hear what you have to say, and you're on the right way to being a better version of yourself; a good person.
If you ever find yourself telling someone to "lower their standards", you're not actually doing them a favor, therefore you're not "actually being nice", and you need to be honest with yourself about that.
Lastly, you're lying to yourself with you go out of your way to make justifications for objectively bad actions. For example, if you're in a stated monogamous romantic relationship with one person, and you choose to invest in a different, unofficiated romantic relationship, you might tell yourself that the right thing to do is to leave your current partner so you won't continue to hurt them in one way or another. This is actually very, very selfish. Should you make the decision to leave your partner for someone else, the pretense of doing it so that you won't "continue to lead them on" or so that way "they can find someone who will truly love them", that pretense is lost when your (ex) partner has to completely change their lifestyle, schedule, finances, all while doing so alone and grieving. In this circumstance, you've done nothing but lie to yourself so you could be more comfortable making your selfish decision. The right thing to do is simply not build any sort of relationship that could lead to romance while already in a romantic relationship. If you honest with yourself, and you feel as though it's not something control, please know you don't need friendships with people who fall into any of your romantic preferences.
If you try being honest with yourself about your intentions and feelings every time you enter a new situation or are presented with a new situation, then you will be on your way to being a better version of yourself; a good person.
#htbabp#honesty#personal jouney#life lessons#valuable life lessons#your uncle josh is probably an alcoholic if he's anything like my uncle josh#be honest with yourself about your intentions when confronting your uncle josh#are you doing it because youd feel really good telling him off about what a pos he is or are you doing it to help him be a better person#digital art#satisfying#awesome#thermostat#Ily#really#eee
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I made Mob Psycho 100 motivational posters based on all the important lessons I took away from the series using official art
They're free for anyone to use I hope they help people feel good and motivated
#mp100#mob psycho#mob psycho 100#motivational poster#every time I get valuable life lessons from anime I feel like that have to be a lil mentally ill to get mentally well post#mob psycho really completely altered my brain but in a good way#originally I was gonna make them with lessons in mind with specific characters but honestly this is better#wish I had a color printer to print these out and hang them around my room#i don't understand how One has so much wisdom in him to make something as incredible as mob psycho#1k#3k
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sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'
#red said#recent events have reminded me that my life has involved like. a LOT of other people's psychosis#like not in a way where i have been Beset By Terrifying Crazies bc that's not like. a thing.#but a lot of people in my life have had a lot of really severe psychotic episodes#and i FORGET sometimes. that actually that is an Unusual Amount Of Experience With Psychosis for someone who's not#for somebody who has not really personally ever had psychotic episodes (unless severe PTSD flashbacks count)#actually i tell a lie i have maybe had One psychotic episode but because it was very situational and i knew what was happening#i was able to ride it out. because i am literally only psychotic Inside Hospitals and so that's all fine#as long as i LITERALLY NEVER HAVE TO HAVE INPATIENT CARE. Very important to me to never ever ever require surgery i think.#i can handle the amount of psychosis i get from a 1-4 hour stopoff in hospital#as long as i know I'm leaving soon then i can just Cope with the fact that the walls are moving and reality is thin#ANYWAY that's not the point the point is i forget! that most ppl i know have experience of at most a handful of severe psychotic episodes#some people i know have experienced more for sure. especially if the episodes were mostly theirs.#but people really seem to expect me to be more freaked out by their symptoms of psychosis than i am#bc i don't think i really register it as frightening unless they're in actual danger or Currently Aggressing Actually At Me#like i WORRY about them bc it can super suck but it's not SHOCKING or WEIRD#there have definitely been times ive been frightened. one time i woke up in the night and my friend was standing over me with a knife#but also like he was still HIM he was just having a moment. and as soon as i got the knife off him he just came back and broke down.#and we were fine and he was safe and i learnt the valuable lesson that even when people seem like they wanna kill you they probably don't#tbf now I'm thinking about it it's honestly a tossup whether he was there to threaten or because he felt a need to guard us#like to be clear probably don't try and take a knife off someone having a psychotic break. i was 17 and it was 3am and i knew him very well#i probably did not make the smartest call but nobody got hurt is the point#anyway you know there's that kind of psychotic episode and my granny got very violently angry a few times. buuuut you know there's also#been plenty of other times I've been with somebody having an episode and it's been chill as hell.#my ex saw and heard monsters so much that eventually she just got sick of being scared. we used to watch TV with them#i would sometimes have to sit on a bit of sofa that wasn't haunted and we might not be able to watch certain things bc they didn't like it#most of the time she was hallucinating there was absolutely nothing to worry about we just had a few extra variables#honestly of everyone i know who's had psychotic episodes or schizophrenia the amount of times it's been a material risk#is like. low single figures? maybe low double if you include self harm but idk what the cause and effect is there.#idk why you would need to be frightened like 99.99% of the time it truly is usually just Oh No That Seems Distressing For You I'm Sorry
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I’d like to bring attention to Nate Ford for a second.
As Eliot explains the different ways to hold a knife he’s like “I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t very relevant to me, also what have I gotten myself into.”
Then Eliot points the knife at him and Nate’s like “oh that’s uncomfortable, I don’t like Eliot pointing knives at me.” THEN, Nate’s leaning back and just like “This man is so much scarier than I thought. Thank God he’s on my side. How stable is this guy?”
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Eliot teaches Nate a VERY valuable and relevant lesson on how to hold knives for maximum usage and efficiency, but ends up just scaring/traumatizing Nate.
Sha Hai (2018) | Leverage (2008)
#leverage#the wedding job#Nathan Ford#Nate Ford#Eliot Spencer#Nate#Ford#Eliot#Spencer#holding knives#valuable life lessons#hold a knife like this cut through an onion#hold a knife like THIS cut through like#eight Yakuza in four seconds#I have so many fucking Eliot Spencer feelings
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Many of you remember how Elvis would express his appreciation to the audience after every song he performed, emphasizing these magic words: “Thank You, Thank you very much!”. The first lesson we can learn from Elvis is this: If we are in a service position (and aren’t we all?), the four most important words in our business are “Thank You Very Much.” Excerpt from a "THANK YOU VERY MUCH, INC." post in its blog.
I decided to share this because it touched me to think about how Elvis influenced his fans, in life as a whole but also in the way some of them carry their business too. I just learned there's this business lady, Holly Stiel, that named her business - apparently - after one of Elvis' most famous words while a performer. She runs a consulting business in the field of concierge/customer service. I am really touched by the way she talked about what EP taught her, something she dedicates part of her life teaching others: Always show your appreciation to how others help you in any way they do.
#insightful#elvis is my idol for a reason#he teaches us so many valuable lessons about life#i love this man beyond words can say#elvis presley#elvis#elvis the king#elvis fans#elvis fandom#elvis history
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they had an equally good time at the arcade
#my art#fnaf#william afton#michael afton#five nights at freddy's#afton family#afton fnaf#he used michael's tickets to get that bnuy and was like “life is unfair michael this is a valuable lesson i'm teaching you”#& at that moment he knew he had to kill his father. the whole serial killer thing was secondary really
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can i be the choso mlp lady? ?? has anyone taken this title already?????? (ps if u are reading this. and like choso x readers... feel free to send me suggestiosnl... m learning to write stuff more ill gladly try ur suggestions :3<3)(drawing suggestions too... if uw ant...)
#choso kamo#my art#jjk choso#mlp#my little pony#jjk#fanart#sillyposting#crossover#jujutsu kaisen#pinkie pie#he likes mlp#teaching choso valuable life lessons through mlp#doodle#suggestions open
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rewatched arrival for the hundredth time. this movie never fails to gut punch me with its approach to determinism. louise embracing her future that she knows every moment of, despite the tremendous loss and pain it contains, with open arms. she doesn't hesitate, or ruminate on how she can try and change it. she accepts it all, the good and the bad, because what she gains is worth it, so many times over for her. she steels herself against a certain future and runs forward to meet it all, to love, learn, and lose, and trusts and leans on herself to live through it all. because that's what life is; it's the joy and the suffering. to try and isolate the joy alone is madness, futility in its purest definition.
comparing her line of thinking to a palindrome (how she named her daughter, hannah), the movie kept emphasizing, "it's the same backwards as it is forwards." it doesn't matter if you can see the end; life is the same whether you live it "forwards" (without knowledge of the future) or "backwards" (with foresight). it doesn't change the significance of your life experiences; to try and avoid certain future pain just because you have the knowledge of it is a zero sum game. you think you win because you avoided pain, but you also avoided the joy that preceded it. the metamorphosis. so you still lose if you try to win, and vice-versa.
all you can do is rush forward and take it all head-on. see this whole beautiful mess as your one most precious gift; this one life, this one chance, a laughably miniature blip on the colossus that is linear time, to experience all there is to feel before you return back to an eternity without perception. it's all worth it, because only in living a full-fledged life open to everything it has to offer does the experience of living turn out to be greater than the sum of its parts; it's in trying to beat the system (avoid pain) that we actually lose.
"if you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?"
"maybe i'd say what i feel more often. i...i don't know."
#arrival 2016#pleaaaaase this movie has a chokehold on me#the perfect sci-fi imo is one that blends the scientific and the emotional realms seamlessly and wow does this do that#this particular movie speaks so personally to me#because i lived so much of my life in stagnation trying to avoid pain i could see on the horizon#a couple of years ago when beginning my last relationship i could see the end as early as 3 months in#you know when you just realize early on there are cracks in the relationship foundation that are not repairable and will only get stressed#the more you build on top of it? yeah#it terrified me like you couldn't believe and i spent so much time in denial and fighting against it#fighting against this future i was intuitively certain would materialize#i watched this movie around that time and decided to just go for it#to not let my intuition rob me of joy in the present#as someone who lived so prudently and always tried to make the “right” choice this was monumental for me and so out of character#for a while i wished i'd just listened to my instincts about how this person would ultimately hurt me so i could avoid the suffering#because i really did have foresight everything i was scared would happen did happen almost to the letter#and i wondered does that make me stupid?#that i marched forward anyway? i didn't have the degree of certainty louise did so i thought i could change things#if i loved hard enough if i was patient enough if i did what i knew in my heart to be the right thing#but it changed nothing#but no i wasn't stupid and i would do it again#because it was still a beautiful experience at its best and it taught me valuable lessons at its worst#i have undoubtedly changed as a person i will never be the same again and THAT is living#not rotting away in an unchanging state. unchanged by joy or mundanity or by adversity. that is not living#undoubtedly better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. i never rly agreed with that until i saw this movie#personal#favourite movies#scifi#movies#this applies to everything not just love. take that chance! do the thing that scares you. bc that's the only way to really live#regardless out of the outcome
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i think “doesn’t have a clear/valuable message” is an incredibly stupid criticism to have for an 80s b-movie
#believe it or not im not watching reanimator for the valuable life lessons#all art is political/has meaning =/= all art needs to have a Message
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See breaks as part of your workday. Taking longer breaks to prevent decision fatigue.
Work hard, rest hard. Have you taken a break today? ☕️
#life quotes#inspiring quotes#life#inspiration#take a break#positive mental attitude#mental health#self care#self love#self healing#love yourself#love quotes#love#love life#take care of yourself#you are valuable#emotions#life truths#life lessons#christian living#inspirational#inner peace#stress#rest day#hobby#relax timely reminder#relaxation#be positive#its ok to not be ok#quotes and sayings
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I love Owen owengejuicetv's storytelling style so much. Based purely on how exactly he's handling the hybrid lore this man has read our fanfics n meta. He knows what we expect and he's serving it up on a novelty anime plate. Sparrow has my entire heart, this dingus is gonna grow wings one day and be so jazzed about it he crashes face first into a wall and dies again!
#mcyt#new life smp#owengejuicetv#also how Sparrow just ever so slightly dehumanizes the hybrids before he meets them#just chef's kiss characterization#he's gonna learn a valuable lesson one of these days#probably from the dangerous end of someone with elemental attacks
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i'm really struggling with letting go of people and not vilanizing myself. like if they chose to cut me from their life then i must be a bad guy? :( tbh i was just wondering if u had any advice in regards to this?
The simple truth is people are imperfect and will not always make their decisions based off an objective assessment of who you are as a person. Some people just choose the easy way out (avoiding conflict) by cutting you off completely, bc that’s much easier than deliberating over a problem and handling it in a well-rounded way. What makes this even worse is the fact that that kind of thinking is romanticized by pop psychology advice these days—cutoff culture is bigger now more than ever, even when it’s not necessarily the answer. It gets packaged as a confident, no-nonsense approach; the reality is that some people are too weak (or maybe just not emotionally intelligent enough) to deal w your/their feelings. So they remove you from their life altogether.
Obviously I don’t think this is always the ethical thing to do. Sometimes it is the right call to cut someone from your life, but in typical tiktok fashion, people have taken this too far and misapplied it to relationships that simply deserve more than that. You don’t owe everyone everything, but you do owe some people a form of explanation as to why you’re literally terminating them from your life. It depends on the degree of closeness and the situation that instigated the rift to begin with. Deciding when to cut off and when to communicate is an important skill to have—but not a lot of people have it.
Another possibility is just that you did cross their boundaries, you did something you weren’t supposed to do, it was hurtful enough to warrant this recourse, etc… and in that case you have no choice but to review your behavior, vow to yourself not do it again, and move on. This is your first time being alive. Not your second or your third. You’re bound to make mistakes. Everyone is. That’s where healthy self-compassion comes in: with recognizing these mistakes, but with not beating yourself up for them forever. It may read as cliche, but you’re literally human & mistakes are literally unavoidable. It’s when you refuse to adapt your behavior and move on that issues arise.
If you don’t grant yourself the gift of forgiveness, you’ll find it impossible to forgive anybody else. Be graceful and patient w yourself, but don’t make a habit of repeating mistakes. And don’t ruminate on something that’s in the past. There are 8 billion out there and an abundance of friendships to make. Just because it didn’t work out with someone, doesn’t mean it won’t work out with the countless other people you have a chance of meeting and forming a wonderful connection with
#a good way to look at stuff like this#is it was a lesson preparing you for the people that will walk into your life in the future#it was a valuable experience and something came out of it#contextualizing it simply as ‘I got cut off’ does nothing but hurt you and diminish the importance of what you went through#ask
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Antonio: Kaede asked me to hold her ice cream without eating any, and I was like, I love you, kid, but some lessons you have to learn the hard way.
#antonio lopez#kaede kaburagi#uncle antonio imparting some valuable life lessons#tiger and bunny#incorrect tiger and bunny#tiger & bunny
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i just know bl meshi snuffy is so niceys to his team. i just know it.
#nagireogiri passing them on their way out the dungeon covered in bruises and scrapes and so fucking hungry. they are so fucking jealous#risking their fucking lives for chris prince and his Dungeon Products !!!#meanwhile ubers are sharing delicious meals going on adventures and learning valuable life lessons w their team leader#voidcore.txt#bl meshi
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Watching Courage the Cowardly Dog would have destroyed Will as a kid.
#this post is brought to you by the tiktok trend#dude has loved dogs his whole life so of course he'd be interested in a show about a pink dog#'the things I do for love' would have stuck with him#and its like#yes will would do a lot of things in his younger years to be normal#to be accepted and liked and loved#eventually he gets jaded but always has a soft spot for that dog#and it did teach him valuable lessons of kindess#i know this isn't canon obviously#just a meander down the woods of thought#also just the fact he wanted someone to do the same for him#anything to show they loved and cared about him#courage the cowardly dog#will graham#hannibal#musings
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I'm so for real right now, I'd absolutely nail being stuck in a time loop. it's my desired state of being actually.
#my supernatural spiritual guardian or whatnot would show up around day 100 of the loop like “are you okay?? you were supposed to learn a#valuable life lesson and figure out the way to break the loop months ago“ and I'd probably just be sitting there reading book n73 from my#ever growing Unread Pile Of Shame or watching a video on how to pick up leatherwork or learning a new language like Nah Man Thanks#But I'm Good Actually. I'm rested for the first time in years. the world is predictable and every new day doesn't bring with it a new#set of fresh atrocities and problems. contrary to what you'd expect I haven't yet unlocked all the possible npc dialogue options (I can#finally be as weird as possible in human interactions and see how people respond without fearing the social repercussions). like I'm not#staying in there forever but a nice two year vacation sounds bloody amazing...#what even is this post? idk I'm Tired and Grumpy I should not be expected to Make Sense
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