your bare minimum isn’t actually that bare or minimum. my dad once told me that there’s nothing in this world that’s easy and that’s true tbh. everything we do takes energy, time, and effort. even the little things. if you feel like you’re not doing enough please try to think about your circumstances and what’s currently available to you: chances are, there’s something that’s diverting or otherwise draining you. and to pull away from that and get something done regardless? well, i think that’s really admirable! please try to take pride in the things you do accomplish in a day, no matter how small or trifling you perceive them to be. you can’t be proud of your growth if you don’t notice where you already are!
“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
Something I sincerely wish everyone in any management capacity would understand better
Consuming endless streams of image of surgically altered body, homogenized “beauty” / trendbody is diff than having this presented in ads, in magazines, in editorials or on runways. This overlaps now but unlimited access to screen and internet creates a threshold for these Frankenstein forms to exist like, permanently , so whoever accesses these images it’s like a livestream because these people are being surgically altered to look like Snapchat filters n kardashian-y (which in itself is completely unnatural looking) . It’s damaging people’s brains, people are living in hyperprisons of physical performance of self and beauty and it makes me really scared and sad. And I think this is all psychotic, I have to continually clean out my explore page on Instagram because everyone participates In consuming these images and following these models n people who live in front of lens, and I have to block pages so I don’t actually lose my mind looking at this body trends . They are sick
Even “natural” look is now part of this kind of neo-fetish , it’s a trend as well. It’s a hollow movement etc. so I’m not dumb I don’t think these like “natural” looks are the response to what I’ve described I think it’s all part of body as commodity and people deluding themselves into believing they have room to perform themselves authentically when this is what they consume or aspire to or absorb into identity etc
do tell me more about this lunar eclipse what’s up w it
Astronomically it’s a big deal because it’s going to last for a few hours, which is a lot longer than most eclipses last (plus it’s a blood moon!) but in a spiritual/astrological sense, it’s important because during a lunar eclipse, we essentially experience an entire moon cycle in the span of one day. The moon will be completely full, New, and full again within the eclipse. A lot of people may be experiencing a ton of tension in their lives right now; overly intense emotions, feeling lost or out of touch with their lives, meaningless drama and conflict with friends and family, or just a general sense of “nothing is right and everything is falling apart.” This is because right now, the universe wants to push and burn through all of the stagnant, unused, pent up energy being held within our lives. This eclipse won’t just start a new chapter, but for many of us it will begin an entirely new way of life. We’re clearing out the old to make room for an incredible array of new things to come! At the start of the leo season, we’re gearing up to leave behind what no longer helps us, and beginning to search for and find what will. If you’ve been wanting to quit an addiction, leave a relationship, change career paths or take up an intimidating new passion, this is the time to do it! If you’ve been waiting for a sign to do something big and bold, the full moon and it’s eclipse will provide a great wave of change on which to do so. That’s just what I’m feeling anyways
the earth signs taurus, virgo, and capricorn need to apply their energy through material conduits. but materialism for earth types is not exclusive to money and appliances. material is the silk of petal, the cushion of grass, the aromas circulating in air, the mineral bath of salt water. mother nature pulses through the body of taurus, she thinks through the mind of virgo, and she declares law through the action of capricorn
