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creatingnikki · 1 year

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things to remember in 2023

goodbye emo era, goodbye empath era, goodbye all you eras that have been putting others + emotions at the center of everything. hello self-serving era. self-serving, not selfish. see, more accurate vocabulary can make all the difference.

choose people who choose you. bare minimum is not impressive. it’s only an indicator that hmmm maybe I can explore what something with this person could lead to. it’s the basic eligibility criteria for opening up your time/schedule to someone, not heart. only time.

new people don’t need to know life stories and trauma from before 2018. if you want to talk about it just write about it, write it into your book.

do not listen to your parents. I mean this in the most respectful possible way. you are an adult now, you make your own decisions. because 20 years from now if you are sad and miserable and hating your life and you tell them hey it’s because you made me la la la chances are they are going to turn around and be like nobody forced you, you were an adult, you made your own decisions. so just make your own decisions. and they would be right. like just dodge the emotional manipulation and the drama and the guilt and lack of validation from them for a bit and go ahead and do things you want to in your life. and you already have daddy issues, right? pacify them in bed or something idk. just make your own bloody decisions independent of what your family/others expect of you.

explore more Hindi music.

channelize certain things you’ve seen in most men around you. channelize compartmentalization. channelize binary problem solving. channelize cutting your losses and exiting at the right time from romantic situations that do not have any future no matter how much you feel for them in the present.

do not force yourself to write fiction. maybe you don’t want to create stories. maybe you just want to write down what you already know. maybe you just want to write creative non-fiction. why is that a bad thing? don’t you think it’s time to let go of the ideas you have hyper-romanticized and see things for what they really are and then work with them?

dating apps are not where you will find love. hook-ups, maybe. but drama-free hook-ups? yeah, not quite sure about that either. let’s just go back to how we were before? let’s just focus on our life and believe that love will happen if and when it’s supposed to?

self-dates must make a return. you found that amazing second-hand bookseller next to your home and your favourite cafe from Bangalore is now in Mumbai and so many new art galleries are opening up around and when was the last time you went to Marine Drive and maybe it’s time to sneak into your college to go have your favourite food again from the canteen and maybe after work you can stay around and explore the popular bars and maybe you can find a post office next to your new apartment so you can start sending letters and packages to your best friend again. I know, I know 2022 was a year of such dramatic highs that gave you such adrenaline rush that coming back to things that were more grounded and brought you joy seems difficult but baby please. you cannot run towards psychosis so soon, okay? come back.

on that note, let’s find a yoga class around your apartment and also a gurudwara.

sign up for experiences and invest for the long term but do not invest in material things like furniture. at this point you are the typical mid-20s person who is free to up and leave whenever and wherever and you haven’t found a place you want to call home yet anyway. so keep your money liquid, don’t lock it up in stupid things, but invest for the long-term in equity assets to create wealth. also, go meet your accountant please. and get life insurance.

do not let family stuff get to you emotionally. deal with it in a logistic, functional, and objective way. as much as possible.

you really don’t have to respond to people within 24 hours, 48 hours, or even a week. I mean other than very few selected people (family, best friend, and your partner), nobody is owed your immediate attention. and even these inner circle people are owed your immediate attention only in a way where you keep them in the loop to let them know you are alive and doing okay.

you are a warm person and it’s easy for people to like you wherever you go. but you have such limited time, energy, and brain cells. you cannot scale yourself like a company. which means if you more people want to get to know you, talk to you, etc., you can’t supply them with that because you are not a scalable product. okay? okay.

earning more money will help only in a limited manner if you do not budget and control your spending. it’s not the person who earns more that is rich but the person who saves and invests and doesn’t take debt for consumption purposes. you can no longer be the ironic financial writer like in the confessions of a shopaholic. you are no longer a kid, you are an adult who has to take care of yourself and soon your dependents and so you cannot keep ranting on about capitalism while falling constant prey to it. instead you have to benefit from it.

figure out what is your choice of poison. for when you wanna just vibe, for when you want to get drunk drunk, for when you wanna be bhand. figure it out.

think of studying Korean as doing an undergrad degree. so you know you have to stick with this for the next three years. this way you don’t see it as a short-term fancy but as a longer term commitment and reach level 6 of fluency in the language. this way, by the time you are in your late 20s, you will actually be able to read Korean books in Hangul and not the English translation. that’s your goal, isn’t it? and writing poetry in Korean too.

your high school friend answered the question no doctor was. when you drink alcohol, make sure there is a 3-hour gap between that and your medication. but also keep the drinking in check. I mean honestly, iced coffee and fresh fruit juices for the win.

you go through people like you go through books. but people are not books. time to pick up actual books again and press pause on people.

do not commit anything to anybody because you have no sense of stability or certainty in your life right now. that doesn’t make you flighty. that doesn’t make you irresponsible. in fact, it makes you responsible because you aren’t making promises you aren’t sure you are capable of keeping even if you want to keep them. actions > intentions.

time to have a skincare routine. your sister has written you a whole blog on it - just follow that.

also oh my god. being twenty five/twenty six does not make you old. you don’t have to look at the younger people you interact with and feel uncool or outdated because then that’s how you’ll always feel. like when you were younger, you would look at the older people and think they are so cool, graceful, smart, and badass. divine, even. then that’s what you are becoming now. not knowing what certain emojis and slang means really has no bearing on how relevant you are.

this isn’t an exhaustive list, so come back. don’t just write this and forget all about it. come back, review, revise, add. but most importantly, remember. remember this is for you. so that you minimise pain and failure and shitty feelings and maximise peace and success and joy. and you do like optimum utilisation of resources, don’t you? so do that. apply yourself for yourself. that’s where the returns are the highest.

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scarefox · 11 months

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OMG

#already ???#nice!!#love upon a time #NetJames #net siraphop #james supamongkon #bed friend the series #things to look forward to #love upon a time the series #fix me my dears

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whentherewerebicycles · 4 months

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I think I am feeling movement :)

#pregnancy tag #I’m not positive yet but #someone was like it feels like a goldfish swimming around in one of those plastic bags #and I keep feeling something like that #intermittently #meanwhile the five-year-old next door is having THE most epic meltdown ahaha poor kid #the dogs are all tense because they can hear her SCREAMING through the (very thick) walls #things to look forward to

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prideandperdition · 23 days

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Maybe it's time I stop worrying so much about all things past, and try to look more to the future. It looks beautiful there. I'm gonna make it beautiful.

#things #there's still so much life to live and happiness to feel #days to enjoy #things to look forward to #I hope you will be there too to enjoy those days with me

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offshoredreams · 2 months

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Journal Entry:

I am healing-slowly- slower than I'd like.

And because I had to move back home so suddenly - I ended up having to throw out, give away and even leave A Lot of stuff behind.

Stuff that I miss.

I miss my outdoorsy, yard work boots that were too heavy to carry and too bulky to fit in my already overstuffed bag.

I miss my Boba Fett shake cup - Can't BELIEVE I LEFT HIM~ 💔😭😭😭

I miss the chocolate mould I was using to make homemade chocolate slabs from - I left it because it wasn't mine, even though I was the only one who used it, I didn't want to get accused of taking something that wasn't mine.

I miss my paints - I left all of my paint related stuff to my nieces because I really couldn't carry any more stuff and I was at the height of my pain at that time and I couldn't justify carrying along equipment that I knew I wouldn't be able to use for weeks to months anyway.

I don't regret leaving them to my nieces; they are all wonderful artists themselves - I just miss my paints, but I look forward to when I can build up my own supply again. 💛

I left one of my favorite domes I made of a scene of an Australian Billa Bong in Spring. It was a large glass dome and I just didn't have the time, nor the room to transport it safely. I miss it.

I miss the craft supplies I left for my nieces. Again I don't regret leaving it to them; I just miss them.

I left the rest of some of the earlier mugs we'd printed; I wish I'd brought two in particular back with me because one of my other niece's designed one of them and both of them are currently the last of their kind. I left them because again I couldn't fit or carry them.

I also left a bag of my tools behind because they were too heavy for me to carry and again I had no idea when I'd be able to use them again, but I had just bought a new hammer only a few weeks earlier and I never got to try it out and it Sucks.

I think out of everything though; I miss my Boba Fett shake cup the most. I'm a big Star Wars nerd and I love ice coffee so I'd definitely get the most use out of that one item now than all of the other things I'd left. I don't know if I'd even be able to find another one like it.

So I fluctuate from being glad I don't have to lug around all of that stuff right now and being in mourning for that stuff.

It's weird.

But, at least I can look forward to getting new stuff for our new house when we are financially stable enough to get one.

And I think that's pretty cool.💛

'Be Like a Phoenix and rise from the ashes of the past.'

#journal #journaling #digital aritst #artist on tumblr #thoughts #moving house #greiving #It's ok to miss the stuff/life you had #but there are so many #things to look forward to #healing #healing from an injury #slow down #phoenix art #phoenix #digital art

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toadstool32 · 9 months

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I was feeling a bit down but then I remembered that etho is in MCC this Saturday and he will.win. so I'm better now

#things to look forward to

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ribbittrobbit · 4 months

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holiday is over in two days and i can feeeeeeel the post-hols depression pre-heating

#but fear not #fantasy high will more than occupy all my thought #my dnd group is also starting a new campaign this year so #things to look forward to

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willchild · 6 months

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There's an inherent beauty to growing old.

Not "getting" old. You do not "get old".

Age is not a product you can buy off the shelf. What you are thinking about is the stalling of age.

But age comes regardless.

Yearly, the amalgamation of months worth of growth culminates into a singular, brilliant moment as the exact day and hour and minute of the anniversary when you inhaled your first true breaths, when you breathed in the oxygen of the universe set aside specifically for you and you accepted it.

It is a gift. One that is not given to the Self by the Self.

You cannot get it. You must wait. Be patient.

Be proactive in ensuring you take care of yourself adequately enough to withstand the wait.

Take care of yourself so that you can grow into the next year of your life.

One year after the other. Growing little by little, the layers that comprise your unique existence. Taking your past and adding the present in small yet important layers as the future smiles and watches.

There's an inherent beauty to growing old.

#growing up #growing old #age #tex talks #tex writes #birthday #celebration #hope #hope for the future #things to look forward to

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inconveniently-discorporated · 1 year

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I am feeling good today.

Have a group at work focused on diversity and inclusivity and pride month came up as a topic for doing a workshop on. I'm not assigned to that one but I've offered my help because I'm fucking excited for it and can't wait to expand year-round awareness and purposeful allyship.

Which only served as a reminder that spring is coming (YAY!!) and so is summer (boo hot, yay longer days and not having to micromanage the coat situation) and most importantly so is pride month.

Y'all when I say that the connection between people being proud to fucking LOVE ONE ANOTHER, and the abundance of rainbows everywhere, makes me so motherfucking happy...

Feeling like this

#things to look forward to #not necessarily good omens but y'all know why I'm sharing it here #y'all especially in this day and age #with the ever increasing fascist bullcrap #not today

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slowandsweet · 2 years

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"What makes the book so wondrous is that each seemingly mundane thing on the list shimmers with an aspect of the miraculous, each fragment of the personal opens into the universal, each playful wink at life grows wide-eyed with poignancy.

Indeed, the entire book is one extended love letter to life itself, composed of the miniature, infinite loves that animate any given life (Maria Popova)".

#books #things to look forward to #sophie blackall #maria popova #brain pickings

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authorstalker · 2 years

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My May & June Reads

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio - Fun but a bit too long! A young adult/coming-of-age version of The Secret History.

True Biz, Sara Nović - I really enjoyed this YA-adjacent novel, which is told from the perspective of multiple characters at a school for the deaf. The chapters are broken up with mini how-to and history lessons on American Sign Language, so you get to learn while reading a truly gripping story.

Teenager, Bud Smith - This reads like Hemingway and Bukowski decided to co-write a teenage love (?) story. Insane and fun! Great writing. It was a nice break from my usual books.

These Precious Days, Ann Patchett - It's an Ann Patchett essay collection—obviously it gets five stars. Gosh I just love her writing. My favorites: every essay about her dad, the essay about her mom, the essay about her extremely beautiful nature friend, the essay about why Snoopy is her writing mentor, the essay about her not-so-great experience in her MFA program. I read the titular essay and the one about her three dads when they were originally published online; I decided not to reread them but they 're amazing. My most favorite essay was the one about her decision to not have kids. Wowowow.

Things to Look Forward To, Sophie Blackall - I am such a fan of Sophie Blackall's illustrations, I have two of them framed in my bathroom (I recommend hanging art in your bathroom!). This is a nice book to flip through at the end of a long day—it is indeed a list of "things to look forward to" with personal stories woven throughout.

A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza - Absolutely devastating. I loved it, I cried. Don't read about it in advance, just go read the actual book.

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thatsongonyourradio · 2 years

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Looking ahead:

September 5th - Three day weekend! 😎

September 18th - 20 🎉 husbands birthday!

October 2 - 8 🍁🍂honeymoon!!! 😘💕💕💕

October 21 - Taylor Swift TS10 🎶🎶

Finishing kitchen in house, fall weather and pretty colors, trying to feel more like myself again, trying to get better sleep, and be kinder to myself.

#personal #things to look forward to #life #looking forward to autumn

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onlydreaa · 1 year

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Sunami is finally touring my state and I’m so stoked

#things to look forward to

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xxx-und34d-m3lod1c-xxx · 1 year

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things to look forward to

seeing my family when I get back home

my plushies on my bed every night

the warm safety of my blankets and covers

my music finally helping someone else

my friend’s funny face after I tell him a bad joke

my roommate eating my cooking

writing another song

putting on a soft hoodie

a song i really like but i haven’t heard yet

#things to look forward to #mental health #holding on #hold on till may #dont give up #hopeful

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onlymingyus · 2 years

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Keep your eyes peeled because over the next day I will also be reblogging my favorite fics by the writers in my recs list. A little glimpse into my bookshelf if you will.

#mars.rambles #author recs #things to look forward to

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