the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!
it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.
and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.
making things improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.
take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.
Honestly Americans talk about Freedom, but i bet if Trump declared himself dictator tomorrow, yall would be mad on social media for like 2 days and move on.
10 self care tips to survive dictatorship
The last one will blow your mind!
BUZZFEED - BY HIPSTER SOYLATTE
30 Reasons why Dictatorship isnt so bad
TeenVogue - By wokestOne
The workplace is already tyrannical so 🤷🏿♂️
If you can deal with your boss, here’s why you can deal with dictatorship
A guy will deadass ask you to chill in the car, or come through to his house, when you barely even know him, but flip out as soon as you say “no, I’d rather do something in public”.
The fuck I look like chilling in some niggas car or at some niggas house if we not even cool like that. I don’t care if you’re on a budget or you don’t got it like that. You find a free activity, use groupon or something and you take that girl on a GOTDAMN date. Act like y'all have some damn sense when it comes to courting a woman.
This is why I’ve been dubbing niggas since 2015. Don’t look at me. Don’t ask me to go no where. Don’t breathe on me. Just go.
2019. Nothing has changed.
All the crustys coming out like “I don’t want to waste time, money resources on a bitch(!) and it not work. They looking for a free meal” So once again we just skipping over the free or groupon options or better yet, splitting the bill. You can be cheap and still have fun stop making excuses, bums.
Also yall let girls waste energy, hours on makeup and looks, and gas to drive to a dingy ass room sit and watch Netflix with a stranger who 89% use the privacy as an opportunity to cop a feel when she could do the same thing at home in peace and away from stale Nike socks.
Safety and health code issues dealing with boring dudes.
yall be careful out there. It’s super easy to let a temporary problem dropkick you into a dangerous cycle of addiction and depression. Keep your Vices in check.
