steph

People: omg I can’t believe this is happening People with anxiety: I thought this might happen

when a friend is depressed sometimes the nicest thing you can do for them is to ask them to do a favor for you

Its crazy how if you get good grades they just let you raw dog adhd your whole life

this year felt like being awake during surgery

SHOCKING 🤯 In 1948, this woman discovered a code to bend "reality" at will. She used it for 30 years with 100% success rate. Her answer? A "4-letter code" that breaks the matrix:

“Be where your feet are.” My mind wanders a lot. I repeat that statement to bring myself back into the present moment.

In a toxic #narcissist family, the narcissists will bully the scapegoat of the family relentlessly (typically chosen because they are the honest, non-sociopath of the family) until visible signs of psychological abuse trauma are evident, i.e. depression, anger, withdrawn or antisocial behavior, and then they will use those abuse trauma behaviors THAT THEY CAUSED AS A RESULT OF ABUSE to point the finger at the scapegoat and tell people, “look, they’re antisocial, they’re weird, they’re angry, they’re the problem.” Further isolating their victim and cutting the scapegoat off from any outside support or understanding. It’s vicious abuse.

anyone else constantly daydreaming about midcentury modern conversation pits or just me

When my mother first moved to Japan, she tried to jaywalk while pushing a stroller on an empty residential street. She was immediately stopped by an old, well dressed Japanese man who solemnly told her in perfect English "the downfall of society begins with the individual"

What is one sentence that has stayed with you after reading it? (Bonus points for including the source.)

Every day I wait for an email that says “you’re in BIG trouble and everyone is mad at you”

i read or watched somewhere that someone’s grandma told them “don’t be in a rush to find the love of your life. once you do, you’ll never get to be truly alone, by yourself, enjoying your life only for you, ever again. treasure this solitude” and it cured me forever

A close up of a Dragonfly face

i genuinely do not believe people treat you how they feel about you. i believe they treat you based on the state of mind they're in. some people unintentionally hurt you because they are at war with themselves suffering, and suffering with things that has nothing to do with you.