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One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

It's just me and the king of scars duology and the dreamers trilogy waiting for me to read them because I've been avoiding them like the plague since 2021

It’s so fucking over. Sorry. Has anyone noticed it’s so FUCKING over. I didn’t know it could be this over. I thought we were a normal amount of over. And yet

actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

Dunsapie Loch, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

15.05.25

Henry Winter should have taken the Saltburn approach to Bunny’s funeral fine I’ll say it

on summer sadness

Inhaler, Just to keep you satisfied // Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By your Name(2017) // Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe // Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mary Jane's Last Dance // source unknown // fleurentcue on Substack // Bhavya Govil, Spaceships in the Summer

hi god how do stop feeling jealous of other people's friendships

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

self isolating to cope is great until you look up one day and years have passed and you realise no one knew you when you were 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 and now they never will