note to self: go outside
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau credit My phone died recently. Not like died because of its charge — permanently died. I'm not the only one whom this has happened to, I'm sure, and this isn't a complaint. Rather, it's an observation on how different the landscape of my life has been without it. I've been reading more, watching more TV, doing less doomscrolling. I found that I've missed my phone a lot less and simultaneously a lot more than I expected. And I've been noticing a difference in my mental state. My mental health is, apparently, linked in part to the device I hold in my hand 99% of the time. Who knew? However, it's still been challenging lately, for more reasons than just my phone, and my sister invited me to go outside with her. Th
this post hit home, like so many of your other posts. Especially recently, I have struggled with accepting who I am. I always want to be someone else, I want to be thinner, I wish I didn't have those blemishes on my face, I wish I had more colour in my cheeks, I wish I didn't have such a round face, the list goes on and on. But I've started realizing that I need to be me. There will never be another Laura just like me, so I need to stop trying to be someone else and be ME.
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~Half-Pint