Frank O'Hara, From “Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)”, The Collected Poems

I love neurodivergent people and our ability to live lives that are true to ourselves despite the fact that the world around us is not always understanding or kind.

I love our communities and the way we seem to be drawn together without even realising it and create spaces that say "I see you, I hear you, I love you, and I want you to be able to be yourself here".

i love the way we can be so, so passionate about the things that are important to us and how vastly different those things can be between us!

i love that we communicate by sharing information and finding common interests!!

I love that we don't always have to talk, we can just exist and do our own thing together.

I love neurodivergent people <33

my younger self would think I'm so brave (cause I am)

Less Envy More Contentment

Help others. Happy people are known to not only be content with their lives but to love improving the lives of others.

Love yourself. This is an important factor in how you can sustain the contentment in your life.

Try something completely new. Doing something completely new and out of your comfort zone will make you open up your mind and have a less rigid view of how confusing life is and lean more into being creative.

Enjoy failing. That's right. If you want to be content with your life, then you have to completely fail at something to learn and grow.

Hang out with people who are content with their lives.

Stock up on value for self. To eliminate the feelings of insecurity, stop focusing on what you think you do not have. And realize there's no competition in your world. You are unbelievably powerful and full of light already.

Stay independent. Sure, you may feel that your life is nothing without your partner but that does not mean that you should be overly dependent on them.

Have faith in your love as a couple. Do you think your guy was flirting with the girl at the restaurant yesterday? Maybe it happened, and perhaps it did not.

Find out why you are jealous. Statistics show that most people are jealous and insecure in their current relationships because of what they went through with their previous partners.

Never play games. Most jealous people will try to make themselves feel better by finding ways to make their partner jealous.

Identify When the Change Happened. The first step in getting back to happiness is to determine what really makes you happy in the first place.

Don’t Fake it. The next step is to not try to fake happiness. Fake it ‘til you make it is not real life. Let yourself respond authentically to each moment as it arrives, without bound to the narrative of who you think you are!

Take Responsibility If you’re unhappy, will you take responsibility for turning this around? I think taking responsibility is the most powerful attribute we can possess in life.

What’s Standing in Your Way? To discover your happiness and allow yourself to experience the full gamut of being human, you need to determine what is standing towards being your greatest self.

Be Kind to Yourself. As you carry on throughout this journey, you need to recognize the points in which you can be kind towards yourself.

In judging yourself, your life, your body, and your belongings as 'not as good as' or 'better than' (the only two verdicts in a comparison!), you limit yourself and your capability to appreciate change as life goes on. We grow as life changes. Our experiences shape us into a new person. Its beautiful ♥

a physically big and strong man who remains soft and gentle will get me every damn time

being a person in your 20s is like being 40 and being 16 at the same time. i am simultaneously too old and too young for this shit

Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

poetry recommendations for january

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

The New Decade by Hieu Minh Nguyen

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara

Shokushu Goukan for the Cyborg Soul by Franny Choi

Untitled by James Baldwin

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

The Horse Fell Off the Poem by Mahmoud Darwish

The Crunch by Charles Bukowski

The Touch by Anne Sexton

i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen

Winter by Chen Chen