How did finals go? Ready to start your summer!
I made all A’s, and now that I’ve graduated I’m on perpetual summer. Feels pretty nice.
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How did you make it?
There was no forethought. The sun was casting shadows through my west-facing window when I was cuddling with Ivy and I decided to capture them. The phone shadow is cropped out.
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Your new dp is a work of art! 😍
Thanks! I’m quite pleased with it myself.
Do you ever feel like your own mind is against you?
All the time. I’m a very negative person. Every time I try to counter my thoughts with positivity, it feels like I’m lying. I sabotage my own happiness this way. As much as I’d like to turn things around, I just can’t justify sugarcoating the ugliness of life to myself. If bliss only comes from ignorance, I don’t want it.
Can any good come out of suffering?
The way I see it, good and bad can never be fully random because they are values we ascribe to events, which require the passing of judgment, which requires subjectivity, which comes from our lifelong collection of memories and experiences. For something to be good, we must have experienced something bad to compare it to, and vice versa. If good and bad events can be so closely linked to how we perceive them with regard to our past, then why not our future as well? Why can’t we look ahead and see the progression of events in between something bad that has happened and something good has not yet happened—but will—and call it connected, if only to serve the purpose of verifying that the “good” which will come is actually worth that value? It seems reasonable then that suffering could lead to good, and could in fact cause the good to be better. But if you believe in objective good and objective bad, you probably won’t agree.
This still alive? How are you? Where are you? How’s life?
Life got really good for a moment and then immediately a chain of awful events happened and they’re still happening. I don’t think they’re going to stop. I wish I could undo the good so the universe wouldn’t bend itself over backwards trying to balance it out. Sickness, paralysis, death, more death, more sickness, and maybe it’s just my psycho brain causing me to believe it’s my fault but it really feels like I got something I didn’t deserve and now others are paying the price.
It's Friday! What are your plans for the weekend? 🥳
I had dinner plans and a birthday party to attend, but I’ve been battling a nasty cold for a week and tested positive for the flu a couple days ago, so it looks like I’ll be staying home.
I know you probably don’t want to be questioned about former users of Ask but do you still have any contact with coffeehymn? I followed her for a year or so before she left and found her interesting, I also thought she had a good vibe, very feminine. She just popped into my head the other day
No, I never spoke with her outside Ask. I hope she’s okay. I miss her presence as well.
Do you want to be happy ?
Isn’t that a startling question? Especially when followed up with, “how badly?” I want to be happy, but the road getting there is a bit treacherous. Being unhappy requires much less effort. And don’t tell me about the muscles in the face. Those bros are shredded, they can take it. I want to be happy, but if it means quitting my job, leaving my therapist, disconnecting from any semblance of religion, telling anyone how I really feel, going entirely off my meds, or abandoning my current pursuits, then I probably won’t be anytime soon.
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What’s that flower?
I used to have some purslane with red flowers only, but somehow it grew some yellow ones, and then this multicolored one showed up.
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People on this app need to learn how to talk to one another like how this app used to be.
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