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“My husband got involved with a younger woman at work.  I was relaxed about it at first.  He’s thirteen years younger than me, so I thought: ��Shit happens.’  But then she got pregnant.  Luckily through the divorce process I had the opportunity to take over this shithole place with no heating, which I’ve turned into an art studio. And now I’m living my best life.  Everything is for sale except the pink chandelier and the dog.  Anyone is free to stop by at anytime.  You can eat or drink whatever you want.  All the young people in the neighborhood love me.  I’m the oldest person in our friend group.  Everyone else is in their twenties or thirties.  They call me Queen Mama.  I call them my adopted kids.  I always help them with their school projects and resumes and interviews.  I only ask one thing in return.  Each of them has to teach me one new thing every week: a piece of music, a trend, an idea.  Just so I can stay up to date.  Before you take the photograph, let me go inside and put on some make-up.  We were out until 2 AM last night.” (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

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Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   

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Repost of a drawing I did for @callieuk , because 80 years of Superman. ~ “You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you; they will stumble, they will fall... But, in time, they will join you in the sun.” ~ Comics have shaped a lot of the person I am. And it’s not just the stories and the pretty art; I love seeing the characters and how they represent something in our own world. They are worth more than just the paper and ink they are made of. I think they’re often a good medium to convey a message. ~ Superman isn’t my favourite superhero, but he is for one of the people I care about the most. I was properly introduced to Superman by my best friend in around 2007. That’s not to say that I’d never seen nor heard of the Man of Steel before then; of course I knew who Superman was. I remember watching the films starring Christopher Reeve as a child; I remember going to sleep, watching the old Superman cartoons as he fought the bad guys, and I made sure to tune in each and every week to watch Lois and Clark and, later, Smallville. ~ But it took my best friend to really show me what Superman means. And, since that day, I’ve never seen Superman the same way. ~ Superman isn’t just a superpowered man with abilities beyond our wildest dreams. He is a hero in every sense of the word. Superman didn’t suffer a tragedy, like Batman, a freak accident, like Daredevil, nor was he conscripted to an intergalactic police force, like Green Lantern. Superman is simply a man that grew up with the ability to either destroy the world, or to save the world. And he chose to always be there to save it. ~ I think that’s his real superpower; his need to always do what is right. What makes Superman inspirational is that, given any choice, he will always choose to do what is just. ~ And I think that’s something worth looking up to. Superman comics aren’t just about escaping into a world where miracles can happen; they are also about the idea that we should be always bettering ourselves. We all have access to Superman’s greatest ability; we are always able to make a choice. ~ And, like him, we should always try to make our choice the right one.

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“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ~ I have an odd relationship with art. Some days I can draw and create and I can look at my work and feel pride. Other days it will be the most frustrating thing in my life and it will forcibly send me sliding down the slippery slope of a depressive episode. ~ I rarely finish my drawings. I often get so far and can’t bear to look at it any more. I get so far that I feel like it is ruined and it will be easier to just start over with something else rather than continue. ~ Recently I’m trying to look at my work with a new eye. Trying to see them as perfectly incomplete. And that’s okay. Things don’t have to be perfect all the time. Just being what they are can be enough. ~ Drawing can help me to relax. And on the days that it doesn’t, I try to focus on a smaller, simpler, repetitive act like shading or colouring. The sense of accomplishment can be enough to stabilise my mood or sometimes just enough to take me out of the world for a little while and keep me distracted. ~ This is my art. This is my coping mechanism. On the days that I’m not doing great, each one of them has helped me to get through the day. Each one of them has saved me from a different hell. ~ A coping mechanism doesn’t have to be something huge. Often I find the smallest and simplest tasks can help the most. They are easily accomplished and they can really help to clear up the episode. ~ And sometimes that’s enough to keep you going. (at Hull - K2 Kingston House)

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“Endings are never easy. I always build them up so much in my head, they can't possibly live up to my expectations, and I just end up disappointed. I'm not even sure why it matters to me so much how things end here. I guess it's because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our every word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone, anyone, feel a little better.” ~ There isn’t a lot I can say that this quote doesn’t say for me. I started these posts just wanting to make one person feel a little bit better. Just one. Along the way I’ve seen so many people open up to me in ways I didn’t expect. In some ways I have helped people more than I thought I could. ~ That’s the person I want to be. That’s the person I am. That’s the part of me that I always want to hold on to. That part of me that keeps fighting. Not for glory, not to make myself feel better... but because sometimes people just need to know someone is out there looking out for them. ~ Right now, I’m losing touch with that part of me. I don’t know how to fight any more. I don’t know how to help. But I’m working on it. I’m searching for it. And I will find it again. ~ Until then, I’m just going to give what little I have left. And I’m sorry that it’s not enough sometimes. But if you need someone right now, know that I’ll give you everything I have. ~ And if I have helped you before. If I’ve made a difference in your life... I’m so grateful to those of you that reach out to me and tell me so. I really am. But I want you to reach out to everyone around you. Someone. Anyone. And make sure they’re safe. Make sure they are okay. Because maybe the person that usually offers that support isn’t able to be there tonight. ~ And maybe, just maybe, by reaching out, you could make them feel a little bit better. 💙🖤

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I always start with a song lyric that nicely sums up what I’m trying to say. And I hide behind some stock image I found online so that I can take a step back and not put my face to any of this. On some level, I guess I think that if I hide away, if I dissociate, then I don’t really have to confront the emotions I am talking about. ~ Sometimes I think it’s best. It helps it feel more universal. Like I could be talking about anyone. Like I could be talking about you. And sometimes that’s all we need; we just need to feel heard. We just need to feel like we’re not alone. ~ I am really alone right now. I am really... apart. I don’t know how to connect with people in the way that I used to and the longer I feel this way, the more I feel everything slipping away from me. ~ Sometimes I think that the hardest part of a depressive episode is the aftermath. It’s the road to piecing yourself together when everything feels so broken. Sometimes it can be easier to watch it fall apart and the reality doesn’t really hit until you realise that nobody but you can put this all back together again. That’s when it hurts the most. That’s when you feel the most alone. ~ For me, it feels like an almost impossible task right now. Almost. But I am still fighting. I am still doing it. And I know that you are too. And that is amazing. If you’re fighting, then I am proud of you. If you’re feeling the pain and carrying on in spite of it, then I am proud of you. Because I started writing these things to help just one person. And now I see that I’m doing so much more. ~ I don’t feel good about myself. I hate posting pictures of myself. That’s most of the reason I hide myself away. But today Bleez made me smile, so here is a picture of the both of us. ~ Today I’m not hiding myself away.

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I wish I could tell you fully how much you have done for me this week. But there aren’t even words to explain it. I wish I could tell you what you have saved me from, but I really don’t know how. ~ Just know that you have made a difference. It is 16 minutes past midnight on March 18th. And I get to say that because I am here. I am alive and well. And I am here because of you. ~ You have done more than I could have ever asked of you. You have carried me farther than I would ever expect. And I don’t know how to fully extend the gratitude that I feel towards you right now. ~ Please don’t apologise that you couldn’t help more. Later today I am going to wake up and go for a walk. Or maybe I will go to work. Or maybe I will sit and draw. I don’t entirely know what I am going to do; but I want you to know that - whatever I do - I will get to do it because of you. ~ You have saved me more times than I can express over the past eleven years. And tonight you did it again. Believe me when I tell you that makes you a very special person. And from the bottom of my heart, thank you. ~ I’m sorry that this is the only picture I have of us. But somehow I don’t think you will mind as much as I do. ~ Thank you, Penguin. You are, have always been, and continue to be the greatest friend I could ever ask for. I love you.

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“This may be the last sunset I'll see So I'll take it in, I'll take it in This may be the last air that I'll breathe So I'll breathe it in, I'll breathe it in” ~ I never understood “cries for help” until I reached a place where crying for help was the only tool I had left to save me. ~ Even now, in this place I’m in now, I feel like it is a bad thing. I feel ashamed at the need to reach out to someone. I feel like a bad person because part of me wants to survive this. ~ But that’s the important part. A cry for help means that the person wants to survive whatever hell they are living in right now. It means that they don’t want to be in it any more. ~ And sure. Some people might cry wolf. Some people might just want the attention. But then maybe some people just need to be seen. Maybe they just need to be heard. Just once. And some of them mean it. Some of them are reaching out as a last resort. ~ And that’s why I’ve never been able to ignore those cries. Because I can’t take the risk that my attention could make a huge difference. That’s why I’ve always had to listen to those voices. Because worst case scenario, I can help that person feel seen and heard. Best case scenario I pull them out of the fire long enough that they make it through one more day. ~ It takes a lot for a person to reach out into the darkness at a time when they feel so lost. Don’t let their cries be in vain. ~ If you hear that voice calling out of some darkness they are in; regardless of any intention that you might assume on their end, regardless of whether you think they’re serious or not... Please pay attention. ~ Because maybe they just need to be heard.

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“Abandon all hope but try to stay calm.” ~ Depression is bad. Anxiety is bad. But they really suck when they come together; and they often do. Right now I’m fighting a war on two fronts. I’m trying to keep a hold of everything that makes me me; I’m trying my hardest to hold on at a time when everything feels lost. At the same time I’m fighting off imaginary threats; assumed and manufactured problems. ~ I’m spending so much of my energy fighting off ghosts at a time when I don’t know if I have it in me to fight at all. ~ I hate everything. I see flaws in everything I say or do. I don’t know which way is right - every way just feels wrong to me. I’m sailing through a storm and I’ve forgotten which way was out. ~ It’s not easy to stay calm. Some days it isn’t even remotely possible. But I know it will pass. I know I will get through this. I just have to hold on to what is left of my raft and hope that I come out of this not having lost too much of myself. ~ Feelings like this can wear you down. They can seem to strip away everything that makes you you. But you will persist. You will survive. You’ve faced this before and you will face it again. It will never get easier, but you will become stronger. Even if you don’t feel it. ~ After everything you have faced. After all of the hurt and the pain. After all of the storms that have come before this one; if anyone can survive this it is you. If anyone can make it through this rough ocean, it is you. ~ You have the ability to conquer the world. Not because you are special, but because you are resilient - because you don’t give up. And when you set your mind to it - whether that is achieving a dream or simply surviving one more day... ~ Nothing can stop you.

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“When it feels like a mountain - a constant, uphill struggle - remember, you’re not Superman. You don’t have to leap over it in a single bound. It’s just one step; one step at a time.” ~ I am struggling a lot right now. And sometimes what I need is a reminder that I just need to focus on what is in front of me. ~ Sometimes I just need to let myself be proud of the fact that I made it through one more day. ~ It wasn’t easy. I certainly didn’t do well. And I’m going into tomorrow with a few more scrapes than I had yesterday. I’m not feeling any more positive; my mindset hasn’t changed, and I don’t feel like I have improved in any way. I didn’t get any of the big jobs done that I needed to do. I didn’t really accomplish anything worth shouting about. ~ But I did make it through the day. I stumbled. I fell. I crawled on my hands and knees but I made it through to the next day. So did you. We each took just one more step. And you know what? ~ That is definitely something to be proud of.