Much Too Young
Back when I first started, at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important like you do when you're young. ~~The Doctor
-
Post reblogged from Team Trenchcoat
does anyone else lie in bed at 2:30am filled with the crippling fear that they’re never going to accomplish anything in life and fail miserably or is that just me?
Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.
and
Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.
-
Link reblogged from In the eye of the storm
- You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25
- You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.
- You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you to start with if they demand it.
- You don’t have to stay with someone who isn’t meeting your emotional or sexual needs because they need you, or you’ve been with them for awhile, or you need to be in a relationship. You need you. Your time is your own and it is finite.
- It’s ok to work at a job you enjoy that doesn’t make you miserable even if it’s not a career and it won’t “lead to anything.”
- Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.
- It’s ok not to like or get along with the vast majority of people you encounter, so long as you afford them the same respect, courtesy and dignity that they afford you.
- Expensive is not always better.
- Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.
- People are both much better and much worse than you’d suspect, but usually not all at once.
- Stop thinking of your future self as a different person and it will be easier to prevent money and health problems.
- Let people help you, lean on them when you need to, and be available to help, but don’t swing too far in either direction. Try to carry your half of the life basket as evenly as you can.
- Set boundaries, and do not be afraid to kick people out of your life who disregard them. You will not end up alone and unloved. People who love you will be ok with your boundaries.
- Your power does not come from money or beauty, but from seeing life steadily and wholly, from a curious and thoughtful mind, and from your ability to say no when you want to, and yes when you want to, and I don’t know when you don’t know.
- There will be bad times, maybe lots of bad times, but not only bad times.
- Love will not heal the wounds in your soul, but love can give you the impetus to begin the work of healing yourself.
- Life might be a long series of starting over, and that’s alright.
- You’re really cool, you’re really beautiful, you’re really special. Really. Not to everyone, but to a lot of someones sometimes.
This is lovely.
(Source: sehnsuchttraum)
-
Post reblogged from Team Trenchcoat
elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
we need some new and more powerful swears
-
Chat reblogged from Team Trenchcoat
- Me: Harry Potter is, like, the gateway fandom. You start reading the books, then all of a sudden you have a Sonic Screw driver, you're carrying salt everywhere and awkwardly in love with Sherlock Holmes and you don't really know how any of it happened, but you're pretty sure it started because Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dursely of 4 Privet Drive were proud to say that they were perfectly normal thank you very much.
- Friend: I don't even know how to respond to that.
-
Scholaries is a place to share summaries of academic books and articles. It is free, helpful, and easy to use.
How did i go through all of my first degree and not know this was a thing?!
-
Post reblogged from In the eye of the storm
I can not count the number of times this trick has saved my ass.
And people say Tumblr doesn’t teach you life skills…
this will come in handy one day
ATTENTION GRADUATING CLASS OF 2013: COLLEGE SURVIVAL 101
Reblogging for future reference..
(Source: gamerspirit)
-
Post reblogged from It Ate My Hand
I have bullshitted my way through almost two decades of life
And now the horror of having to be genuinely useful is terrifying What if actually I’m really useless? What if the reason nothing seems to appeal to me is because I’m lazy but I’ve never known it because until now everything has been laid out for me? Oh god.
-
Photoset reblogged from it's arrested development
There’s an abandoned house in England called The Potter Manor House. It looks like this. And if this isn’t the house of James’s parents, then I don’t know what is.
omg its real its real its real its real SQUEEE
-
Photoset reblogged from Team Trenchcoat
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
(Source: simplypotterheads)
-
So I’ve been watching Supernatural for the first time and I’ve noticed there are a lot of blonde girls around. What’s that about? Like I can’t care about a victim unless she’s aryan?
-
Post reblogged from It Ate My Hand
“Come up with your own essay prompt”
HOW ABOUT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF
-
Post reblogged from Team Trenchcoat
how do girls know that they’re off of their periods? do their vaginas like ding or something?
an elf pops out and throws confetti at us and yells “YOU’RE FREE! See you next month”
so you give birth to an elf every month?
yes.
-
A teacher once said to me, “You have to keep thinking. It’s kind of a rule.” I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently and then I stumbled on this speech by David Foster Wallace saying exactly what I thought, but more eloquently and with the credibility of age and experience.
-
Photoset reblogged from In the eye of the storm
