42 here. In my teens and 20s I had depression, so I told myself horrible things like “I’m only worth anything to ppl bc of my art” and “everyone’s worse off for having known me,” but I don’t think like that anymore. I’ve been trying to think for a few mins if I tell myself positive stuff now instead, but I don’t think I do, I just stopped telling myself garbage.
You’re enough for me! 💜
I’ll be your friend; you can actually discuss things well 💜
You might like the “If you could invent anything in the world, what would it be?”
I used to sketch out ppls’ answers and give them the drawing to remind them they’re creative even if they never considered themselves in that light before. Bc every single person I ask can come up with at least one thing, from jeans with a star patch on the back pocket to a tiny home village arrayed a certain way.
Lol but why would we use one word from one language when we can use two words from two different languages? /s
Thank you, good read!
That Trump cutting funding for USAID will kill 14 MILLION PEOPLE, and we’re not calling him Hitler or Ghengis Khan. Wtf.
Hire product designers and artists to go to every high school art classroom and ask kids “If you could invent anything in the world, what would it be?” and then draw it for them. So they can get a taste of that feeling that they too have something to contribute to the world. Put the ideas up on a site like kickstarter, with the profits going towards their college education. Nvm, fuck that. I’d pay for college for everybody.
I’d also travel while I could before the planet gets much hotter.
I feel like these are small goals left over from when I was younger bc I can’t properly conceive of what a world without scarcity for me and everyone else looks like. I’d start with the housing problem though, bc that’s what I’m facing rn.
I would use one of these almost every day if it were in walking distance
I like the etched one! The heat printed one looks too busy on the brown background and with that wallpaper. I kind of like the idea in another comment of etched flowers below and heat printed “B” above.
Check out www.lawofone.info. The first few sessions (they’re short) say what happened in ancient Egyptian and South American cultures when aliens came and tried to share the simple thought that “we are all one.” Shit devolved into human sacrifice. Apparently we can’t handle anything even approximating religion.
How do you know they don’t?
Thanks for reminding me to add this here! Wiki link from another lemmy user a few days ago I found incredibly helpful in reframing things from “right vs left” to a broader, less politicized view that just speaks to human nature: tolerance vs intolerance - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It took me a long time to recover from the cult I was raised in, too. Every time I think I’ve got it all out of my system, some new insight comes to light and shocks me all over again. Like reading Chris Hedge’s 2006(or 7, I forget) book Totalitarianism in America. It goes over how the Dominionism Cult my mom was in in the 90s started in the 70s and is behind the US’s current political takeover attempt.
Just keep educating yourself like you have been, and you’ll be alright 💜 Just don’t get down on yourself when more ingrained dogma pops up, be glad you noticed it instead!
I didn’t know that about the pasta water, thank you!
We’re having nationwide protests today called Rage Against the Regime, if that helps any. Some tiny amount anyways. They’re not talked about like the No Kings protests were tho. I’m assuming we’ll start protests every weekend at some point
But I like Googling British phrases, I want to talk like that! Watching My Oxford Year rn and have paused it like 5 times and I’m not even halfway through 😂
Plot twist: you remember your “life between lives” Michael Newton’s Journey of Souls-style, and miss that home