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This guy is really going to regret sitting down with Jon

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Can we normalize doing nothing, please?

I work with kids. These kids are at my program before and after school, and then some of them have sports/dance/music sometimes all of the above before they finally go home, eat dinner, and go to sleep. Then rinse and repeat everyday, and games and more classes on the weekend, etc.

I’m all for extracurriculars, but this turns into the teen who is not only in the school play, but they’re on the newspaper, the football team, and seven different clubs. In college they take double the courseloads, and then once they graduate…what?

They work themselves raw because they arent used to downtime. They’ve been told they can always be doing something, and they don’t know how to relax. This turns into the adult that has anxiety because there’s nothing left to clean, the adult that desperately wants to watch that TV show but can’t force themselves to sit long enough for it.

Then they turn into the moms and dads who spend all their free time ferrying their kids to extracurriculars.

Like, these kids don’t know what downtime is? I told a kid I did nothing last weekend, and he looked at me like I was crazy. He asked what I was doing this weekend and I said “Probably sleeping, mostly,” and he actually gasped. Then he rattled off a bunch of things I could do, to which I had to stop him.

“No, you don’t understand. I plan on sleeping. I’m booked.”

“But you could–”

“Nah. I’m just gonna rest.”

It was as if I had said a bad word or something. I asked what he does when he gets sick, and he says he goes to practice anyway. I asked him what he does if he doesn’t feel like going, and he said he goes anyway. I asked when he takes time to rest, and he said when he sleeps at night.

Bring back lazy Sundays. Bring back Saturday morning cartoons. Bring back the idea of relaxing and soaking in your day before moving into the next thing. Bring back the right to breathe, the right to rest.

Bring back mental health days, and taking a break. Bring back taking a walk or watching a show or setting a timer to remind yourself to stop cleaning and relax.

If you’re running at 100% all the time with no time to recharge, then your battery is going to die spectacularly, and probably at the worst possible time.

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Sad old man hours or, my brain went “haha what if the three ancient ding dongs were friends since childhood would that be fucked up or what”

( this is not ship content plz don’t tag it as such)

Ft. my Wol’s Azem because I refuse to draw basic white boy wol-man

Please consider subscribbling to my patreon or donating through kofi so I can keep making Emet-Selch sad (links in pinned post)

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This Thing Here

So I’m supposed to answer 11 questions from @lizziekilgannon and then make 11 questions of my own for my followers... But I’m never on here and don’t have followers, so I’m just going to answer the questions.

Some questions:

1. What is your least favorite season? Why?

Probably Spring. I like rain a lot and it’s nice to get back to not having snow everywhere, but it’s not hot.

2. Movies or television series? 

Movies probably. Although I’ve been doing TV series more recently and they’re cool too

3. What’s your “aesthetic”?

Video game Fantasy or Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Like Warlocks from Destiny. And the future.

4. What’s something on your bucket list?

Don’t have a bucket list. But... get a job I actually enjoy doing?

5. What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? 

I probably don’t remember because it was too awful.

6. Pick one” mountains or the beach? 

Beach

7. Where would you want to move outside of whichever country you live in currently?

Canada or England would be cool. Still speaking English so I can survive. Different, but close enough in culture that my life plans are still doable.

8. You can only watch one television series for the rest of your life. Which do you pick?

I have no idea. Fairy Tail? It’s long and really cool.

9. What are two things you wish you could tell your younger self? 

If you’re serious about it, you can probably make a living with at least some aspect of something that you love. So study what you want to and not what other people want you to.

Same thing, but not in terms of career paths. Do what you want to do and not what other people want you to do. Vague, I know, but there are long explanations behind both.

10. Do you like spicy foods?

Yup.

11. What is your dream job?

Something that allows me to be a consumer of video games. A video game reviewer, a YouTuber, idk.

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Since 2010, every senior class has had 100 percent of their students admitted to college, the school’s website says. The school’s motto is “We Believe,” which serves as a reminder “that Urban Prep students will not fall into the trap of negative stereotypes and low expectations,” the school’s website says.

#BlackExcellence #BlackPride

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Something good in this world…

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Snow Lake

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🐺  Greyhound~

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Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful. 

Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.

Read more.

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MerryChristmas!

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Burmecia

A tribute to the best scene in Final Fantasy IX

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Artworks by Cosmin Hrincu

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when millennials were first heading into high school and college there was a huge trend in news stories about how stressed out our kids are, how their backs are getting messed up from carrying so many books, how they’re sleeping less and doing more school work, and how we should do more to help our kids have the childhoods we had because our kids are falling apart from stress and being forced to be more productive than kids should be. but then once millennials started hitting the workforce all the news was about how millennials are lazy and narcissistic and entitled lmao you were real concerned about us until you found out a 23 year old is more qualified to do your job than you

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Star Wars: Holidays - Created by Carlos Ruiz

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Wojtek Fus on artstation