Nobody will respect you more than you respect yourself. Nobody will see you valuable if you devalue yourself. Assert your value! Ask for that pay you know you deserve! And work from the bottom of your heart. Pour love into everything you do. Love tramps begrudging duty any day of the week.
And if you don't love what you do, let me break it to you, you'll never learn to love it in the future. Time wears your patience for what you hate, but it enforces your love for your life purpose. You will have to endure discomfort to achieve great things. But don't milk it! Don't try to endure what you hate. Cause you'll have to hate yourself for it.
And if you don't love what you do, let me break it to you, you'll never learn to love it in the future. Time wears your patience for what you hate, but it enforces your love for your life purpose. You will have to endure discomfort to achieve great things. But don't milk it! Don't try to endure what you hate. Cause you'll have to hate yourself for it.
Let me parent you for a sec. (Ignore the condescension😁This is a note to myself more than anything)
1.Your destiny isn't set in stone.
2.Money talks. It even belts.
3.You can have both integrity and money. The are NOT mutually exclusive.
4. Live below your means.
5. Don't feel guilty for charging so much for your time. It's literally your age.
6. Ladies, make your own money and don't rush into marriage.
7. Men, don't let anyone shame you for your emotions, but know that they DO NOT excuse your behavior.
8. Don't take it to heart when your teacher over-praises you or insults you.
9. Respect your parents. Know when to listen to them BUT Know when to defy them and listen to yourself too.
10. Wrestle with God. Even when you doubt His existence.
11. Let your close friends see into you. Maybe not all the way through. But deep enough.
12. Keeping something to yourself is not a sin. Have little secrets with yourself, little rituals.
1.Your destiny isn't set in stone.
2.Money talks. It even belts.
3.You can have both integrity and money. The are NOT mutually exclusive.
4. Live below your means.
5. Don't feel guilty for charging so much for your time. It's literally your age.
6. Ladies, make your own money and don't rush into marriage.
7. Men, don't let anyone shame you for your emotions, but know that they DO NOT excuse your behavior.
8. Don't take it to heart when your teacher over-praises you or insults you.
9. Respect your parents. Know when to listen to them BUT Know when to defy them and listen to yourself too.
10. Wrestle with God. Even when you doubt His existence.
11. Let your close friends see into you. Maybe not all the way through. But deep enough.
12. Keeping something to yourself is not a sin. Have little secrets with yourself, little rituals.
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Don't be stingy with your handiwork. With your effort. Give it away. Give it in abundance. To undeserving people. To the envious. The more you give, more will be given unto you.
But keep the source of your art to yourself.
Don't interpret it. Publish your book and stand quietly in the corner. Write your song and let heartbroken girls cry to it. Let critics dissect your films to oblivion. Let tired moms treat your poems as their emotional surrogates. Let terrible fathers project their inadequacies onto it.
Your art can stand up for itself. Let it justify its own existence simply by being.
You can't disclose where it comes from. You'll never do it justice. Unveiling that part of you is vulgar. Sacrilegious. Do not blaspheme against yourself.
But keep the source of your art to yourself.
Don't interpret it. Publish your book and stand quietly in the corner. Write your song and let heartbroken girls cry to it. Let critics dissect your films to oblivion. Let tired moms treat your poems as their emotional surrogates. Let terrible fathers project their inadequacies onto it.
Your art can stand up for itself. Let it justify its own existence simply by being.
You can't disclose where it comes from. You'll never do it justice. Unveiling that part of you is vulgar. Sacrilegious. Do not blaspheme against yourself.
Let me parent you 2.0 for teens and young adults (Take it with agrain of salt cause I don't pretend to know what's best for you but these are what I learned)💜
1. Being misunderstood is not all that bad.(when no one gets you, you're free to be whoever you want)
2. Never shrink to belong.
3. Being cool is a myth. We're all grossly uncool.
4. Have crushes. But don't let them crush your dreams.
5. Feed your mind what's best. Feed your soul what's nourishing.
6. Stay away from radical figures on the internet.
7. Know what to rebel against. Rebel by non conformity, by pursuing your dreams, by befriending the outcasts, by daring to be labelled the teacher's pet. Not by being an asshole!
8. Sleep like the dead
9. Dabble in different things open-mindedly
10. Make acquaintances but don't commit to friendships too early as school starts. You might end up in the wrong friend group.
11. Read books that challenge you.
12. Work on your self reliance and emotional intelligence. It can save you from fumbling major life decisions.
1. Being misunderstood is not all that bad.(when no one gets you, you're free to be whoever you want)
2. Never shrink to belong.
3. Being cool is a myth. We're all grossly uncool.
4. Have crushes. But don't let them crush your dreams.
5. Feed your mind what's best. Feed your soul what's nourishing.
6. Stay away from radical figures on the internet.
7. Know what to rebel against. Rebel by non conformity, by pursuing your dreams, by befriending the outcasts, by daring to be labelled the teacher's pet. Not by being an asshole!
8. Sleep like the dead
9. Dabble in different things open-mindedly
10. Make acquaintances but don't commit to friendships too early as school starts. You might end up in the wrong friend group.
11. Read books that challenge you.
12. Work on your self reliance and emotional intelligence. It can save you from fumbling major life decisions.
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If you talk about art, they'll say it's pretentious.
If you don't follow TikTok pop culture, you're pretentious.
If you like antique stuff, you're pretentious.
Or worse, you're trying to be "not-like-other-girls".🙄
God forbid a girl has passions!
If you don't follow TikTok pop culture, you're pretentious.
If you like antique stuff, you're pretentious.
Or worse, you're trying to be "not-like-other-girls".🙄
God forbid a girl has passions!
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Wrestle with God
You know you want to
Wrestle until you’re limping
And beat down by experience
When the fight gets tough,
don’t turn away
Keep clinging onto Him
Until His essence rubs off on you
Until His Goodness gets branded on your skin
Until you’re godly again
Amidst all that friction
a spark in your soul starts
Until it burns you humble
Until He defeats you
Wrestle with God
Til you’re spent from exertion
Til all the doubts bleed out of you
Til you see the fight is unmatched
Yet, He will indulge you
Til you know that Love is a ‘Who’.
He won’t stoop to your level
He’ll elevate you to His
He won’t laugh at the bobby pin you’ve brought
To a sword fight
It’s the brawl of your life
So, Wrestle with God
For He respects you too much to go easy on you
Rest assured ,He won’t.
You know you want to
Wrestle until you’re limping
And beat down by experience
When the fight gets tough,
don’t turn away
Keep clinging onto Him
Until His essence rubs off on you
Until His Goodness gets branded on your skin
Until you’re godly again
Amidst all that friction
a spark in your soul starts
Until it burns you humble
Until He defeats you
Wrestle with God
Til you’re spent from exertion
Til all the doubts bleed out of you
Til you see the fight is unmatched
Yet, He will indulge you
Til you know that Love is a ‘Who’.
He won’t stoop to your level
He’ll elevate you to His
He won’t laugh at the bobby pin you’ve brought
To a sword fight
It’s the brawl of your life
So, Wrestle with God
For He respects you too much to go easy on you
Rest assured ,He won’t.
Stephen King says writing is self-hypnosis. To me, writing is like self-amputation. Agonizingly parting ways with your thoughts after the immense effort of trying to make sense of them. Sharing my thoughts is an act of bravery. Like standing naked before the firing squad. And an act of trust like sharing an incriminating secret with a lover. Help me hide the body.
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Once in a while,
a classroom alive with chatter gets quiet abruptly, then all you hear is the scratching of pencils and pens against paper with the occasional rustle of turning pages.
It hits you, then...consciousness.
Moments like that make me ache with bittersweet feelings.
Like when I'm home alone and sunlight seeps into my living room uninvited; defying me.
Like how the moonlight has a life of its own, scaring me.
Like a good fairytale that sends chills up your soul.
Like the distant echoes of a church bell and the chants that follow.
Like art and polaroids of frozen time.
It's all I think about during my long commutes to school; hyper aware, melting into the window-seat as the wind brings warped memories. Cold air with a hint of rot, courtesy of a city buzzing with life.
So I believe. Against my 'better' judgement.
a classroom alive with chatter gets quiet abruptly, then all you hear is the scratching of pencils and pens against paper with the occasional rustle of turning pages.
It hits you, then...consciousness.
Moments like that make me ache with bittersweet feelings.
Like when I'm home alone and sunlight seeps into my living room uninvited; defying me.
Like how the moonlight has a life of its own, scaring me.
Like a good fairytale that sends chills up your soul.
Like the distant echoes of a church bell and the chants that follow.
Like art and polaroids of frozen time.
It's all I think about during my long commutes to school; hyper aware, melting into the window-seat as the wind brings warped memories. Cold air with a hint of rot, courtesy of a city buzzing with life.
So I believe. Against my 'better' judgement.
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Woke up today and what do I see? A trailer for Wuthering Heights 2026. What on God's green earth is THAT?!😖
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https://youtu.be/ID0rqEWrN44?si=ndFpuKeFtxZ1suXt
Nope! I'd rather watch Kate Bush's WH music video on a 2 hour loop than this abomination.
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https://youtu.be/ID0rqEWrN44?si=ndFpuKeFtxZ1suXt
People are saying it's not Wuthering Heights, it's "Wuthering Heights" (in quotations so that we wouldn't take it as a direct adaptation). Screw that! As if they're not marketing it as an adaptation! I hate that I'm enraged by this cause rage is what sells the film.