This Gave Me A Reason To Smile When I Didn’t Think I Had One

And kid, you’ve got to love yourself. You’ve got wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. You’ve got to sit next to the man at the train station who’s reading your favorite book and start a conversation. You’ve got to come home after a bad day and burn your skin from a shower. Then you’ve got to wash all your sheets until they smell of lemon detergent you bought for four dollars at the local grocery store. You’ve got to stop taking everything so goddam personally. You are not the moon kissing the black sky. You’ve got to compliment someones crooked brows at an art fair and tell them that their eyes remind you of green swimming pools in mid July. You’ve got to stop letting yourself get upset about things that won’t matter in two years. Sleep in on Saturday mornings and wake yourself up early on Sunday. You’ve got to stop worrying about what you’re going to tell her when she finds out. You’ve got to stop over thinking why he stopped caring about you over six months ago. You’ve got to stop asking everyone for their opinions. Fuck it. Love yourself, kiddo. You’ve got to love yourself.

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I’m pretty sure I haven’t left my desk for the last 12 hours but it’ll all be worth it tomorrow! My mildliners arrived and they are SO cute, I can see what all the fuss is about now ^.^

No better way to spend rainy days

what i say: i like learning languages

what i mean: thanks to duolingo i can say "she reads a newspaper" in twelve european languages

▫️R E A L I T Y ▪️

Since taking some time off Tumblr and coming back, I’ve decided to unsubscribe to the typical studyblr method of making notes look nice, of editing photos, and of romanticising my life. I understand that this will make my content less appealing on an aesthetic level, but I’ve come to really dislike a lot of the superficiality that being online perpetuates. I agree that beautiful study photos are just that: beautiful, awe-inspiring, and maybe even motivational, but I feel that often seeing these photos can dishearten others about their own progress, and often even those who post such photos feel locked in to appeal to the masses on a constant basis, which isn’t realistic or maintainable.

I can’t promise that I won’t edit my photos, that I won’t reblog aesthetically pleasing pictures, or that I won’t choose to withhold information about my student life, but I want to be more open about struggles as well as victories because even though most of us are just strangers on the Internet who know one another by username or first name, I feel that a lot of us go through similar struggles and cope with it alone (or more alone than need be) for the sake of appearances.

I am going to start using and tracking “realstudy” in addition to my own username, feel free to join if you want (or don’t, that’s cool too).

Mon xxx

hi, here’s a messy desk featuring my cat who suddenly came up on it, made himself comfortable and decided to sleep there on the page i need without a care in the world. see why i love him? 

If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it

Michael Jordan (via studyblr)

Hush!

Yoo-hoo! Got through one of the toughest practical exam today! So happy :D I spent the day before the exam fretting and worrying and praying and sometimes studying in between xD Oh relief!

Late night studying featuring my glass of orange smoothie 😋 #studygram #studyblr #studymotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpj2b_2h28y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dv8ryfalc6ep

Sunsets are divine. So is Fitzgerald. 💗