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children’s dreams / al-yarmouk, palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria
little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al khatib
spring turns to summer <3
Lovely
instagram | microflowerfarm
ur early 20s are about being obsessed with kindness and mary oliver and seasonal fruits and recreating comfort foods you ate as a child and learning how to love and crying because you have no choice but to live the life before you and finding god on the bus back from the grocery store
— My Prerogative by Britney Spears
How I Increased My Confidence to the Point Where I Can’t Stop Looking at Myself in the Mirror!!
1. When I felt bad about myself, I would sit in front of a folded mirror in the dark for 5-10 minutes at a time. I felt so self conscious about my reflection staring at me from 3 angles that I felt exposed. I realized it’s not me who feels bad about myself, it’s the others who feel negatively about themselves to the point that they’re inflicting their self hatred on me!
My mood and self esteem level changed instantly! I couldn’t believe it. From middle school to my junior year in high school, I didn’t hate myself, it was other’s energy!
2. Don’t ever care about the negative comments or backhanded compliments others say to you directly/indirectly. Literally, ignore it unless you’re being threatened. I laugh at anything anyone says at me. At the same time, don’t allow anyone to talk about you and you take it.
“If they can dish it out, they can take it.”
You’re too pretty to insult yourself and pick out flaws about yourself. You’re too pretty to waste your energy and eyesight on picking out flaws on others. They’re them and you’re you.
3. Unlearn stage fright and the feeling of being cornered. For my graduation practice, I walked in the field in my favorite fitted dress, waist ⌛️⏳ (I had on a waist trainer but no one could tell) and the vintage Louis Vuitton bag I just bought. They people I had issues with kept staring at me to antagonize me or to get me to look down/away but I really, really didn’t care.
My waist captured everyone’s attention and I was going to go have fun afterwards while they rushed to work and gawked at me.
(My graduating class really thought I got my waist done 🤣)
I didn’t appear as and really wasn’t the same meek girl they saw before the pandemic shut everything down. Know that you’re better than whatever others are giving out.
You don’t have to prove anything or have a revenge “‘“glow up’”” on anyone.
4. Never stop learning about how to improve yourself. I discovered femininity when the change happened and it was a life transformation. Wake up earlier and have a healthy drink or meal. Watch makeup tutorials and hacks while walking on the treadmill. Find out your personal style and measurements.
5. Think about your confidence this way. Your self esteem levels are like a dimmer switch. The more you notice how attractive and lovable you are, the higher the switch goes up or more the knob turns. You see your inner & outer beauty even more as the brightness increases.
Now, I’m pretty euphoric and I keep a mirror on my nightstand. I’ve had to hide mirrors from myself and buy more to place in my surroundings!!
Manifesting this
trust in the universe
You will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these things make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind, to learn and grow.
I want to be Carrie Bradshaw
In the sense that she is a freelance writer and lives in a nice New York Apartment, can afford desinger footwear and goes out to drink every other night with her friends.
(I would actually be responsible)
We Belong Together
Question to all lambily is the dude who enters the party wearing a mask in the "It's like that" MV and wearing converse as he watches Mariah walk towards the altar in the "We Belong Together "meant to be Derek Jeter? And the Older Man who spies on Mariah through the SONY cameras supposed to be Tommy?
Am I Reaching ?
Motherly Love
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNX5K6KjBQw/?igshid=1w6d2otscpt1e
Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.
If I lose myself I lose it all.
on losing yourself
Keep reading
Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “You are on the floor crying”
The Moon & Art by Théodore Gudin 🌙⭐
Becoming Your Monster
BECOMING YOUR MONSTER
Haruki Murakami // Suspiria (2018) // Jorge Luis Borges // Midnight Mass (2021) // Eric Larocca // Hannibal (2013-2015) // Franz Kafka // Breaking Bad (2008-2013) // Lindsay Bird // Whiplash (2014)
No one deserves depression and unhappiness. Evgeny Lushpin Fine Art
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
Zoë on selina’s connection with batman: “both of them are people who never feel seen or connect to anybody, and i think it’s a little scary to meet someone who affects you the way that we affect one another.”
The Batman (2022) vs Batman: year one