I hope you have the confidence to be you and courage to pursue what you want with no regrets.
I hope you genuinely smile and laugh, with or without a reason.
I hope you keep learning and keep growing as a human being.
I hope you keep pushing forward.
I hope you achieve or continue to retain inner peace, and I hope you love yourself for all that you are and all that you are becoming.
Husband is chemist and he says the gases that react to make the fire have weight, but the fire itself is energy and therefore does not have weight as we measure it.
cold medicated brain thanks mister indigo for his service
good news everyone. crows no longer need instructions to build tools and have started building them from memory, as well as passing the knowledge onto future generations of crows. oops!
better news everyone. crows have learned to construct these tools from unrelated items! they no longer need to follow the original blueprint they were given and are able to improvise using their surroundings.
loved one: sorry, i can’t hang out! i have plans with other people
my hellbrain’s instincts: wow you love them more tha-
me, ignoring her and working on being a better person: that’s okay! i hope you have fun! can we hang out some other time?
I love this bc it’s a little snapshot of what the intermediate stage of recovery/treatment/growth can look like.
It might not be what you expect. I think people want to stop having those thoughts immediately, and if they can’t they feel that they’ve failed. But that’s not true! Challenging those old thought patterns is exactly what recovery looks like
do i act this way because of a personality disorder, being a highly sensitive person, or is it just effects of long term abuse? the world may never know