Category: positivity

You are allowed to exist alone in public btw. You’re allowed to go to the movies alone and go out to…

wiisagi-maiingan:

You are allowed to exist alone in public btw. You’re allowed to go to the movies alone and go out to eat alone and hang out in a park alone and go for a walk alone and whatever else. It isn’t weird or creepy, it doesn’t make you lonely or a loser or whatever. You are allowed to just exist as yourself.

laura's mathom house 2022-10-02 10:02:22

vampireapologist-archive-deacti:

Last summer my friend’s mom discovered hundreds of teeny tiny toad tadpoles in a puddle in her driveway. It was drying up, so she asked me about moving them to a nearby pond. I told her not to, because moving amphibians unnaturally between water bodies can spread disease.

So she filled up a watering can every morning and every evening and replenished the puddle, adding dechlorinator drops she uses for her fish tank to make sure the water was safe.

The tadpoles survived and grew up into little toads who eventually hopped out of the puddle.

I think about the tenderness and compassion of this a lot.

laura's mathom house 2022-04-23 09:29:39

cupofteaandstars:

betweenthemustypages:

So, I’m a bartender at a good ol’ fashioned pub in England - the type that’s predominantly frequented by middle-aged retirees with beer-bellies who come to escape their wives for a few hours and watch the football.

And there’s this one group who’re there almost every few days - all rowdy old lads in their 60s. They spend most of their time sloshing their beers and jokily insulting each other and roaring at the footie.

Except that, whenever any one of them leaves, that person goes around and gives a tender forehead kiss to each of the others before they go? At first I thought they were doing it as a joke but I soon realised that they all do this, every single time. It’s genuinely just a gentle and sincere show of affection and i don’t know what to do with this information

Reblog to give a tender forehead kiss to all your rowdy old mutuals.

hornedchick: Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig….

hornedchick:

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”