Work till you love/like yourself
Things you can't change:
- your parents
- your height
- your genetics (actually not true, epigenetics exists but that's a whole other box of frogs)
.
Things you can change:
- your fitness
- your diet
- your hairstyle
- your work ethic
- your make-up
- your circle of friends
- your sleep pattern
- your skills
- the way you view yourself
.
Get to it champion!
I'm currently not a champion, rather a hamster frozen in the middle of its cage with a brain going "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
I know what you said it's true on some level but my problem rn comes from the fact that I'm too weak to oppose a strong will to my family's "advice", which led to a really awkward time bc I've spent 1hour feeling like an idiot in front of a guy I don't know who expected me to be smart and now I need to find the strength to 1. disappoint everyone -family, a teacher and that guy- by telling them I don't want to do a phd (there will be disappointment, no need to deny that) and 2. fight my own crippling fear of not having a source of income if I don't enroll in a 3-year program on stuff I couldn't care less about.
I know it's up to me to change things, but I just really wish to be possessed by a ghost who could run my life while I take a vacation in the void.
But hey, in the past year I've indeed changed 4 things of the list :D
Fitness (not your level and type of fitness, I just started walking 1 hour a day everyday), diet (only healthy stuff with the occasional chocolate and not so occasional homemade pies, stopped drinking coke and rediscovered water-side effect, I've dropped 20 pounds since February and my pants don't fit anymore), sleep patterns (8 hours!! -that's hard to maintain atm but as soon as I'm living alone again it's gonna be easy) and as for skills I recently picked up Portuguese and started playing the kalimba!
Now for the rest my work ethic is on pause since I don't have a job now, only hobbies that I don't want to turn into work, and I'm not really into hairstyles and make-up so I'm gonna cheat and sneakily tick them off the list anyways. So I need friends (the end of lockdown will probably help, whenever it happens) and to prove myself I'm not garbage.
(also it's a bit more ok now, still a hamster but down to only "aaaaa")
I see what you're doing (and it's working, thank you)
I started having intense chest pain last year (now I know it's just the cartilage of my ribs that decided an inflamation was a nice gift) and realized I'd put myself on hold for too long to focus on others and things that I thought were important, like grades. And I discovered I love just walking outside. For the Portuguese I was spending the first lockdown at my parents (nd there's only 1 room that I couldn't invade too much so I had to momentarily drop my hobbies. But they had been thinking about going to Portugal a while ago and had bought a language book which I found and thought "why the heck not"). The kalimba just sounds really nice so I checked Amazon for it and it was like 13€
You're welcome
Dang, chest pain's a scary one. Good job it wasn't as serious as it could've been
I've no idea what a kalimba is or how you play it. Could you enlighten me?
It's also called a thumb piano, which coincidentally answers the other part of the question. Sounds rather cristalline https://youtube.com/watch?v=so7HGFeOdfw
É muito interessante! Não praticarei ontem, mas tento aprender um pouco todos os dias. (It's very interesting! I haven't practiced yesterday, but I try to learn a bit everyday). It's rather easy as its grammar and vocabulary are quite similar to French, but I have trouble understanding spoken lines.
Things you can't change:
- your parents
- your height
- your genetics (actually not true, epigenetics exists but that's a whole other box of frogs)
.
Things you can change:
- your fitness
- your diet
- your hairstyle
- your work ethic
- your make-up
- your circle of friends
- your sleep pattern
- your skills
- the way you view yourself
.
Get to it champion!
I know what you said it's true on some level but my problem rn comes from the fact that I'm too weak to oppose a strong will to my family's "advice", which led to a really awkward time bc I've spent 1hour feeling like an idiot in front of a guy I don't know who expected me to be smart and now I need to find the strength to 1. disappoint everyone -family, a teacher and that guy- by telling them I don't want to do a phd (there will be disappointment, no need to deny that) and 2. fight my own crippling fear of not having a source of income if I don't enroll in a 3-year program on stuff I couldn't care less about.
I know it's up to me to change things, but I just really wish to be possessed by a ghost who could run my life while I take a vacation in the void.
But hey, in the past year I've indeed changed 4 things of the list :D
Now for the rest my work ethic is on pause since I don't have a job now, only hobbies that I don't want to turn into work, and I'm not really into hairstyles and make-up so I'm gonna cheat and sneakily tick them off the list anyways. So I need friends (the end of lockdown will probably help, whenever it happens) and to prove myself I'm not garbage.
(also it's a bit more ok now, still a hamster but down to only "aaaaa")
Good for you. What motivated you?
I started having intense chest pain last year (now I know it's just the cartilage of my ribs that decided an inflamation was a nice gift) and realized I'd put myself on hold for too long to focus on others and things that I thought were important, like grades. And I discovered I love just walking outside. For the Portuguese I was spending the first lockdown at my parents (nd there's only 1 room that I couldn't invade too much so I had to momentarily drop my hobbies. But they had been thinking about going to Portugal a while ago and had bought a language book which I found and thought "why the heck not"). The kalimba just sounds really nice so I checked Amazon for it and it was like 13€
Dang, chest pain's a scary one. Good job it wasn't as serious as it could've been
I've no idea what a kalimba is or how you play it. Could you enlighten me?
Turns out I did know of it, just not its name
Cool stuff, how's Port of Geese coming along?