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Short prayer to the Sun, for blessings. Recite while directly facing in the direction of the Sun.

Oh Great Sun God, I worship thee

Oh Great Sun God I revere thee,

Oh Great Sun God I admire thee,

Oh Great Sun God I pray for your blessings,

Oh Great Sun God I pray to <>

Oh Great Sun God I beg thee, I apologise to thee, I sincerely thank thee.

Oh Great Sun God I am your greatest believer,

Oh Great Sun God I am your most devout believer

Oh Great Sun God I am your most worshipping believer

Oh Great Sun God I am your most blessing-worthy believer

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I just remembered that one time in 3rd grade, I just really wanted to escape school(reason? just felt like it).

Since there's a worker by the entrance, I decided the best possible way I could acomplish this was to climb out of a window.

So, I went to the bathroom(which was on the ground floor, and had a ginormously large window). Now, this window was maybe like 1.5meters off the ground inside, and around 2meters on the outside. I was pretty confident a 2meter fall wouldn't be that bad, especially since I knew some techniques on how to minimise injury when falling.

I opened this window and started kinda slowly getting myself out, when someone started yellying at me. It was the school janitor.

Turns out, he was just about to enter the building and start his work for the day, when he saw me. I obviously jumped back in and tried to run to class, but this dude, despite being like 70, was incredibly fast.

He caught up to me, and that was the first time I ever got in trouble at school😅😅

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While I try to form my own opinion and disagree with the mentality of walking on roads already constructed, alas, I oftentimes tend to agree with many points of absurdism.

I can confidently state that my life is what may be considered as great. It's of upmost strangeness, yet I feel joy. It's of upmost weirdness, yet I laugh. Does my life have an inherent purpose, am I truly important, will my actions have any meaning, do I have a reason in the continuation of my existence? No, no, no, and no.

And yet my life is full of wonder. As all life, it has no visible meaning or purpose, for which reason religion, society, their norms and expectations were established, but alas, I walk my own road. I am a sailor on sea, on which my imagination and randomness alone reign over all. The harshest of storms in which my ship is shaking, I laugh and persevere through my will. And out of the storm, I come out on the other side, to the wonder of the golden rays of the sun.

Although, I am not a typical sailor. I am a pirate, who rejected society and society rejected him, walking his own path. I sail through the vast sea of life, gathering experience, and eventually find an island. That island is one far away from the kingdom I ran away from, one where I can lead a peaceful and fullfilling life. I spend my days doing what I wish to do, with no judges to prosecute me, silently or loudly.

My pirate has settled onto the island and is lives amazingly. Yet, complacency damages imagination and will. Eventually, my pirate dies. Yet, I am not one. The pirate is reborn, to start sailing again, to collect new experience. All of his lives found peace when they settled down, yet it also killed him. Finally, he finds an island he knows is his last. His life can only be described as great. His imagination, will, perseverence, wonder, joy, and laughter all flourish like beatiful flowers. And this time, he lives on.

The story of the pirate is filled with metaphores for my life, and I had to write it multiple times, as I simply wanted it to be perfect. My life, my self, I, have decided to not follow the roads constructed, unlike the overwhelming majority. I explore my own path. Sometimes I run, sometimes I walk, sometimes I stop and admire the scenery. I am an explorer, who explores one of many uncharted paths of life. It's strange, yet I can't imagine myself not exploring, but following. Those who can not explore new paths, they will never know what lies there, they will never know themselves. Once, a long time ago, I had a near-infinite list of choices. I chose... freedom, joy, and peace.

I apologise if my English isn't that good, I am not a native speaker and only 15 so I am still learning the language. I hope you, the reader, the observer of my thoughts, can take some lesson out of my words, and have a nice day 😄.(btw I would really appriciate any and all opinions anyone might have, be it on my writing, thinking, or whatever else)

- from me, a "child" wandering around the the road which I chose to walk

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A while ago, I posted this(in short, I admired the Sun and said that I'm down to start a Sun Cult). Just today, I got offered to play(cosplay+act I think) as Louis XIV at a masquerade ball I'm going to.

Do you know the title of Louis XIV? It's "Sun King". I can't even make this up, either this is an extreme coincedence, or fate is cooking up, and I really am going to be staring a new religion soon. Praise The Sun☀️☀️!

I just cannot believe how amazing the sun is. Like you're telling me this thing is milions of kilometers away from us and you can still feel the heat? Literally all of my "best life moments" have a beautiful sunshine in them.

People worshipping it as a god in the ancient times is extremely understandable. If I was alive back then, I would've started some sort of sun-based church(I'd be the pope of course haha). I think with good enough social skills and luck, you can totally start a sun cult anytime you want, just because it's such a reasonable thing. Anyone wanna start a sun church/cult with me? ☀️☀️🌤

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I'm really proud of this post, maybe read it?

Sorry for the potentially bad english, I'm not a native speaker. Please enjoy.

A simple guide to social skills for those who feel like they need it:

Do you ever feel like you just can't talk to people for some reason? Feeling awkward, got nothing to say, afraid of their reactions, don't know how to start, ...? I used to have quite simmilar(i don't know how to spell that word sorry) troubles. I also know quite a bit of people like this, and from improving myself to observing others, I have a decent idea of how to get better. It's gonna be a long one.

First off, all "skills" require experience and repeated practice to get good at. Could you ride a bike the moment you saw one, can you juggle the moment you pick up some balls? Obviously, no. And "social skills" literally have the word "skills" in it. There's no quick or easy way to improve. It's gradual improvement that all adds up.

Now that we understand this, let's look at the "skills" part of social skills again. Notice how it says "skills" and not "skill". Social skills are composed of multiple things, so let's start with what comes to mind first, and that is speaking.

We can divide speaking into a few sections - your vocabulary, tone, speed of speech and knowing your audience. Knowing your audience(the people you're speaking with) is easily the most important part of an effective speaker, as this will influence everything else. You can roughly determine what vocabulary to use by observing a bit before talking, but it's most adequate to just go on your instinct on how to speak in a given situation. Additionally, remember to keep your own personality, and bring your own speaking habits(if appropriate). As for the tone, it's also incredibly important to be able to manage it well. There's no concrete tutorial on exactly what tone to use where, and this is exactly why experience is incredibly important, as mentioned perviously, as over time, you can develop what is almost an "instinct" for your tone. As for your speed of speech, it's not that important, but it can be either the finishing touch or the breaking point, and to improve it, you obviously need your own, personal experience.

The second part of social skills, which is arguably just as important as speaking skills, is body language. This is all nonverbal, and needs a very substantial amount of experience, observation of others, and repeated attempts.

Body language can be divided into: arms, posture, face, movement. Let me explain what each of those is. First off, the backbone of your body language is your posture, pun intended. If you spent a lot of time on your phone or computer, your posture is most likely terrible. While you should've already heard this is bad for your health, it can also completely and utterly demolish how others subconciously view you. It's not that hard to stand up straight up(of you're having problems, seek a doctor), and trust me, while it may not seem that important, it's like the foundation of a house. If your posture's bad, the whole house will be unstable. Second are arms. What I mean by this is that quite a lot of people don't know what to do with their arms/hands when talking. For this, I can say just one thing, and that is, proper usage of hand gestures turns you from bad to decent, or from decent to excellent. As for how to properly use your hands, that's once again up to repeated trying, and experience. Third, the face. Being able to properly control your expression is necessary for anyone who wants to have social skills. Be it a smile which makes others feel safe, or controlling yourself in a difficult situation, a complete control over your face can help in countless situations. Lastly, your movement. This is a very general category, as it refers to how often and in which ways you subconciously move what parts of your body. It mostly passively improves as you improve your other skills.

The third part, is the "self". I'm not going to dive deep into personality theory, or other related studies, so: To put it simply, you need to stay as your self. This is an incredibly deep matter, but confidence can solve like 80% of it. As for the other 20%, that's up to you to figure out. To gain confidence, improve. There really isn't much to it. Someone who feels ashamed or wierd because of a strange hobby wouldn't feel that way if they were in the top three in the world in that hobby. Lastly, a quote that can help anyone improving their "self"(those searching for the 20% confidence can't help) - "Don't find yourself, create yourself". Staying as your true self is a very complicated matter which you will eventually need to focus on, so start early.

Fourth and final, the four I's - imagination, improvisation, incompetence, ignorance. These are the "core" of social skills. Pay attention now, these may just be nearly as important as the last three points combined. First, improvisation. In the world of social skills, your ability to quickly improvise and adapt is the thing which ties everything together. Additionally, this is the thing which benefits from experience the most, and essentially determines if everything works out or not. Unless your improvisation skills are as good or better than your other skills, it won't ever work out. Incompetence is also extremely useful to have, only at the start. Incompetence only leads to competence, and with a strong "self" incompetence only means a desire to improve. Assuming you have a strong enough "self"(you shouldn't try to improve your social skills unless you do), this is your one and only driving force in the beginning(the most difficult part, as all your experiences accumulate later, and it's near impossible to be stopped then), and an incredibly large amount of people on this journey give up because of the lack of the combination of a strong "self" and incompetence. As for ignorance, it's just a very useful utility. Some things simply need to be ignored until you have the capability to face them head on, and I've seen far too many people getting into bad situations because of a lack of ability to ignore. Lastly, and most importantly, imagination. This alone has the potential to carry anyone from the bottom near the very top. To put it simply, imagine someone talking to you. What kind of social skills would make you like them the most? Focus on those. Having trouble improving something specific? Imagine this imaginary person talking to you with all kinds or various forms of this skill, and pick out the ones which yoh feel suit you the best, go out to gather experience based on your imagination, and either pick a specific way of doing that skill or alter your imagination based on your experience and try again. Imagination has limitless potential and uses, and if used correctly, is on the same level of importance as experience, or in other words, at the very top.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you can learn something from this. I wrote this whole thing off of my personal experience, so you may have to remove, add, or alter things based on yours. Maybe give it a try for a week, and reply how it went? I'm going to be very happy if this helps even one person, so see you in a week! Bye for now 😁👋!

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I have no idea where this gif is from, but this is life goals. To become best friends with a baboon! 🐒🐵

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Anyone else just randomly came up with a weird hobby, did it for a while, and became really good?

Because that's exactly what happened to me. I don't even know how, but quite a while ago(around half a year) I just randomly decided to try slipper-kicking. Like straight up kicking slippers off my feet, trying to get a good amount of power and accuracy.

I literally just kicked my leg in various ways until I found something that worked, which I then practiced. I've been doing this ever since I started, and have come up with like 7 different techniques. Not only that, my accuracy is like 95%(the other 5% usually just flies off or hits something around me whoops). I also got myself slippers with like a REALLY hard sole(a sole is the whole bottom cover of a shoe) and kicked it at the hardest wall I could find, and from the sound alone I can tell that if I get a headshot I can probably kill someone. Since I nearly always wear slippers, this is like a top tier skill for me.

If you ever get an idea which seems kinda ridiculous or pointless, give it a try. You might just end up having a lot of fun or discovering something cool😉😎

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I just cannot believe how amazing the sun is. Like you're telling me this thing is milions of kilometers away from us and you can still feel the heat? Literally all of my "best life moments" have a beautiful sunshine in them.

People worshipping it as a god in the ancient times is extremely understandable. If I was alive back then, I would've started some sort of sun-based church(I'd be the pope of course haha). I think with good enough social skills and luck, you can totally start a sun cult anytime you want, just because it's such a reasonable thing. Anyone wanna start a sun church/cult with me? ☀️☀️🌤

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Can someone explain why I was just at school doing whatever and then BOOM I suddently just feel the need to find the nearest carpet, wrap it around me, and roll around the halls?

I actually searched for a carpet for like a few minutes like WHAT??! Do NOT let me near carpets in the future because like wtf is this😆😅

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Does anybody else ever just see a walrus and get an irresistable urge to hug it? Like I know it's super big and I'd probably die, but you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes, they got me looking at them like 😍😍 like please I NEED a walrus plushie😭