Arka Patra

How do you approach unrequited effort in friendship?

I don’t really measure effort in friendships. There is the connection and there is the life it fits into which is often busy and overwhelming. I don’t befriend people who I feel are subtly mean or have anything but pure love towards me, so with that as the foundation I never think about effort in that way because I trust that the intention is always pure. When the trust cracks, I distance myself, no hard feelings.

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فلسطين ستزهر من جديد 🌺🤍

A jaguar (Panthera onca) patrols the riverbanks of Cuiaba in Matto Grosso, Brazil

by Nedko Nedkov

Kelela photographed by Inez & Vinoodh for Notes on Beauty. Makeup by Yadim Carranza.

take life a little less seriously. learn a skill that isn’t resume-friendly. own your decisions without punishing yourself. both above average and average results are great; it’s good to do something at all. do many things, do many things badly. think about the big picture. the time is passing, regardless

Artem Rohovyi - Symphony of Branches gouache on paper

"Why not make female heroes more feminine so girls know you don't have to be masculine to save the world" is misguided. The target audience of heroic adventure genre is not children who actually save the world in a literal sense, it's children who want a cathartic outlet for the struggles and injustice they face. And one of the most common types of injustice that many girls and children assumed to be girls are subjected to is forced feminization.