Latest Posts by atiredsisyphus - Page 2

The emphasis nowadays on being young, on being beautiful, on the outer look, on the physical, is pathetic - based on the lack of recognition and denial that we all age. It’s natural to age. There is nothing wrong with aging. We should not feel guilty because we are looking older year by year. It’s natural. We look old, and our partner looks old. So what?

- Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Photo: Jetsunma and her friends of 50+ years, nuns Sangmo and Lhamo, laughing together in the temple of Tayul monastery in front a big statue of Padmasambhava. Lahaul, 2024.

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

desiring something I can neither recognize nor define

Imane Khelif of Team Algeria celebrates winning the gold medal after the Boxing Women's 66kg Final match on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 09, 2024.

self-improvement should be because you want to improve your quality of life, not because you feel or think you *need* to be better in order to be loved or allowed to live. there's no end goal with self-improvement, it's easy to dig yourself a grave when you don't realize that you're not on a ticking clock to be the 'best version of yourself'. all you need to strive to do is be the version of yourself you are the most happy with. find out what values you find important, what kind of friend do you want to be, how do you want to react to things. what are things that would improve the way you go about life? what would make life easier, better and more enjoyable for you?

everyone you admire, idolize, put on a pedestal is just a person. everyone you hate, demonize, find irritating / annoying, is also just a person.

In the name of self-respect, some bridges need to be burned.

Being cruel to the version of you that didn't know any better changes nothing about the things they did. It hurts the person who turned around and reflected, the person who learned from their mistakes and held themselves accountable, the person who deserves to heal, and the person who deserves to move forward. Forgive yourself.

hello kitty and gaspard et lisa by georg hallensleben

heal. your mom may never apologize to you, because she has conditioned herself to believe that she did right by you. she hasn't healed. heal anyway. your father may never apologize to you, because he can only see what he's done right. he hasn't healed. your family members may never apologize to you, because toxicity is what they were raised on. they haven't healed. heal anyway. that "friend" may never apologize to you, because he/she isn't sorry. he/she hasn't healed. if/when they reach their healing, they may seek your forgiveness. be so healed that it won't even matter. heal for you. you owe yourself that much.

This is happening I already have it

I will fix my bad habits, finish with a 4.0 gpa, get that Bphil degree, a man with a kind and pure heart will love me and ill have my first real life love

I will fix my bad habits, finish with a 4.0 gpa, get that Bphil degree, a man with a kind and pure heart will love me and ill have my first real life love

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

PRACTICE URGE SURFING

Before I heal does anyone like emotionally unavailable women

Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

You don’t have to punish yourself anymore

Bc why not 111✨

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

You’re not someone so worthless that you will only be accepted by others if you become the perfect person for them, or if you work or study as much as you can to prove you are productive and valuable. You don’t have to strive to be financially well-off only to prove to others that you are successful and finally be seen as good enough. You don’t have to do anything for you to matter, you already do. You don’t have to earn your worth as a person, and I’m sorry someone expected you to, and it left you feeling like there was something “wrong” with you. They were wrong. You are valuable just as you are. Try to remember that every time you start to feel like you have to prove your worth.

my life advice is if anyone ever says 'let me know if there's anything i can do' think of something for them to do even if you feel like they didn't mean it. if they didn't mean it they shouldn't have said it and if they did mean it u will both feel closer to each other for it.

500 Words Magazine

How to Help the People of Sudan?

Sudan is currently undergoing a brutal war that has left more than 12,000 people dead, more than 5.8 million internally displaced and m

Barana Hanabneiho Organisation (BHO)

Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG)

Hadhreen (7adhreen)

Nas Al Sudan

Sadagaat Charity Organisation

Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA)

Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA)

Sudanese Diaspora Network (SDN)

Sudan Tarada Initiative and Save Al Geneina Initiative by Sadiea

Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS)

Sudan Solidarity Collective (SSC)

Takaful Organisation

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