#Finding Joy in the Small Things

[theesotericecho]

Stuck in Traffic & Smiling: How Stoicism Teaches Us to Chill Out and Control What We Can

Caption: “Finding Serenity in the Midst of Chaos: Embracing Stoicism in Daily Commutes” – A visualization of calm amidst the hustle, inspired by the principles of stoicism.Credit: Image created by DALL·E, envisioned by David Sawin for The Esoteric Echo. You find yourself in a seemingly endless sea of cars, with the clock becoming a frequent focal point as your stress levels soar. Welcome to the…

[steddieas-shegoes]

thinking about a young steve harrington traveling the world with his parents before they thought of him as too much of a burden to bring with them. thinking about that same young steve harrington seeing things he'd never see in hawkins, indiana. thinking about how he probably saw nudist beaches, and casual touches between friends at cafes, and men sneaking kisses with other men.

thinking about a young eddie munson who thought that steve was cool because he got to see countries he'd only read about in books. thinking about that same young eddie munson who realized he wanted to see the world, too. thinking about how he wanted to see the world with steve specifically, maybe hold his hand while they walked the streets of paris, maybe sneak a kiss in an alley in rome.

thinking about how both of them had unrealistic expectations for the way the world worked, even in these seemingly magical places, but that's what kids do.

thinking about steve growing out of these thoughts the more he heard his dad yell at him about having his head in the clouds and his imagination was too wild. thinking about eddie having to live with wayne, who would never be able to afford a plane ticket to new york, let alone europe, no matter how much he would want to give eddie that experience. they both lose sight of the dreams they had to go because they're both forced to stay.

thinking about how when they both leave hawkins, it's together, despite the ways they were pulled apart. thinking about how they find happiness in places they never dreamed of, and it's better. it's always better because they're experiencing new things far beyond what their imaginations could've pictured, and they're doing it all together.

[vampirejuno]

Fucked up having a goofy ass romantic nature when you're not in a relationship or even have a crush on anyone specific. You'll be sitting there thinking "oooh I wish I had someone to kiss and take on gayass dates and dedicate my soul to" with complete sincerity like some kinda 18th century nerd who courts ladies just so he can have someone to write poems for. I have all this love in me and nowhere to put it, what a fuckin waste dude. You were right Freddie find me somebody to love

[whentherewerebicycles]

knowing (as I now do) that it may not last…

I am DETERMINED to enjoy every

single

second

of being pregnant!!!!

[the---hermit]

Camping in my living room at night while the paint in my room dried, and the temptation to buy a whole army of blåhaj.

27|07|2023

After painting my room I went on a small ikea trip with my dad to get a couple of things we needed (I did not get a friend from my blåhaj because my dad threatened to leave me there, but we got a cinnamon roll and it was all okay). When we got home we put back together everything in the room and did a deep cleaning all together. I changed a couple of things, added a poster to a wall and finally hanged some postcards that friends sent me as well as a few I have collected while travelling. I haven't finished displaying things on shelves yet, but I'll be doing that before the end of the week. At the moment we are also doing a deep cleaning of the rest of the house, which is one of the things I hate the most since I am allergic to dust, but you gotta do what you gotta do. It also means I'll have a chance to reorganize my shelves which I am pretty excited about as usual. Later I'll go meet a friend's puppy and tonight I'm going out for icecream with another friend, so life is good.

Chill hobbit summer activities of these days:

Read first thing in the morning

Got breakfast with my dad

Continued my Irish review on duolingo

Putting back together my room

Started cleaning the house

Cleaned the garden of all the fallen fruit to avoid wasps being all over the place

Watered all my plants

Dentist check up

Finished reading Nimona and I loved everything about it

📖: Juniper And Thorn by Ava Reid (I have been reading very little lately but I am almost done with this book!)

[mister13eyond]

talking to a friend about getting back into art and i think the #1 most important piece of art advice i could ever get or give is just "figure out what is FUN to you"

like i think there is sooooo much emphasis on how to build SKILL in art but a lot of it really treats art like a job or like video game grinding, like it's this thankless job that you have to work at in order to reach a Threshold and i know it's not EASY to make yourself have fun but like

imo a solid 70% of the reason i create art is because the Act of Drawing is fun to me. it's fun problem-solving and planning and putting down lines and playing with colors and tools. it's fun to depict little scenes in my head or to create outfits or to find ways to fill the canvas. never forget that creating can be fun. sometimes it's hard and sometimes you have to battle through your own blockades to get there but the ultimate goal should always be to ENJOY it, to find what you enjoy doing and then do it forever. improvement will follow enjoyment.

i think especially with all the debate about ML image generation it's more important than ever to embrace FUN. if you're only focused on the end result it's so easy to get in your own head- to think about what doesn't look good or what skills you don't have yet or to compare yourself to other artists. but photography didn't kill the art of drawing and AI won't either because, simply put, there will always be people who want to do the physical act of making art because it's fun to do! using paints and markers, splashing colors around, doing shitty pen doodles, using the symmetry tool in your art program to do abstract mandalas that are just squiggles formed into patterns. do art like you're 5 and you've been handed markers to pass the time. do art like you're bored in class and you're keeping your brain entertained by drawing stick figure comics in the margins. do art like an absent thing, do art because it satisfies your brain. the goal is not to make something beautiful and perfect, the goal is to make something because your hands need to make and your body needs to make.

[crescentfool]

beaming everyone on the dashh with good brain day vibes!!! i hope that you all can remember to extend self-compassion to yourself whenever you're feeling down about something 💙

[niishi]

Can I ask about your Kuina theory? Youve mentioned it once or twice but I havent seen it laid out in full

I have it laid out better in a post I'll have to find, and be warned there's lots of speculation but it's a theory for a reason(one i will die by) but basically I think she was killed by order of the 5 elders. The dawn and joy boys return was prophesied even before oden, when the kozuki clan made the poneglyphs and told zou to hide theirs until the "dawn"(meaning the prophecy of joy boys return(Luffy))

Anyways... ryuma as zoros ancestor, was a very famous and revered swordsman and dubbed a king to the ppl of wano. His existence is so important to them that hiyori gave Zoro the one precious momento she had from Oden in order to get shusui back. So ryuma holds a lot of importance in the world. And then them touching on ushimaru being locked up by kaido (seems like there was somewhat of an orchestrated suppression of the samurai)(also that odas making a point to tie in the shimotsukis)..

Lol gosh I know I explained this better in my other post but... okay, kuina is a shimotsuki. If this prophecy mentioned "great swordsman that is a descendant of ryuma shimotsuki" then, in the worst gen, if the World gov was trying to track these prophesized individuals down, then, observing kuina, with the last name shimotsuki, being an incredible swordsman with natural talent, they'd target her. I have a lot of speculation around this bc it seemed her father discouraging her swordsmanship mightve been a way to protect her from following this "fate" and being targeted. Also it'd make sense that Zoro wasn't targeted bc his parents are dead and he has no attachment to the shimotsuki name anymore and also? He's losing to this girl. So to them, It's obviously this girl who was prophesized, right? Her dad's energy throughout the whole thing was weird to me too. Somber and somewhat angry?

I feel it even more given, the only others who were specifically attacked &targeted by the military were Robin and Franky. Robin who has connections w the poneglyphs, Franky who has connections with Pluton. And then we have Luffy, who was purposefully hidden away from the world, in the mountains, with a grandpa that BEGGED him not to follow his destiny. A grandpa who knew Roger. Who knows more than we know he knows. These specific ppl being targeted, Franky and Robin, garp knowing things and hiding away Luffy, is what makes me believe kuina was targeted and was the only one successfully stamped out, even though they got the wrong guy. Chopper nami sanji and usopp probably didn't seem as much of a threat so they weren't targeted or maybe weren't even prophesized bc they have no super big connects to the void century. (Although I am suspicious of brook)

I also think this will be a great moment for zoro if it becomes reality bc he'll have a moment where he realizes it should've been him instead of kuina and I can only imagine the emotions the would stir in him.

ANYWAYS I know I have this written down better somewhere bc I took notes on it lol but this is my scatter brained answer trying to remember all my points. Sorry it isn't eloquent.

[aria-ashryver]

Woke up real sad this morning. Went on a walk on a forest trail. Got to pat 3 of the 7 dogs I saw (one of them was a poodle cross(?) named Ronnie) (Ronnie decided we were best friends and tried to come home with me).

Bought a cookie and an iced coffee.

Came home to a neighbourhood cat trying (very politely) to break into my house. Let him inside and now he's sitting on my washing machine contemplating his Cat Thoughts (doubt much is going on in there but he's trying his best)

10/10, significantly less real sad now 🌻

[portpebble]

[Images ID: nine space-themed tshirts of various designs, all with the same "I need my space" joke on them. End ID]

post-pacifist, Sans owns all these shirts because he thinks its hilarious and it makes Papyrus furious because it's the same stupid joke EVERY DAY and Sans is like well its funny every time and Papyrus goes ITS NOT ( ...but at least his brother's actually doing his laundry and wearing things that make him happy instead of the same dirty old jacket so he really doesnt mind that much)

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Quirky representations of dementia should go die actually

[halyorke-vampiredisaster]

Most of the time In the Flesh is just another dvd case on my shelf that I don't think about and then once in a while I go to rewatch it very innocently and 5 minutes in I'm violently run over by how fucking raw it is and by how insanely hard it hits omg

[popcornsalty]

Okay important and genuine message from me. I'm not much or often a poster on timblr but if I can give a sincere message. It's to have varied interests. Be into multiple things at once. It doesn't have to be the same intensity for all of them or level of interest or whatever. Hell not all of it has to be good. Just have multiple things to look forward to and care about

[lunapwrites]

And not two minutes after posting that sad lad post, I'm hiding under my bed trying to scare the shit out of my partner because teehee

No but really I'm posting this from under the bed. I am actively in wait as we speak. Like you know that voiceover video of the little spider burying himself in sand? That is me. I am that spider.

[badassbutterfly1987]

Better news after yesterday: I have indeed cut my hair and I really like it!

It's about shoulder length now and more noticeably curly. :)

[yuukei-yikes]

i dont like mekakucity talkers yuukei quartet chapter because it implies they didn't have a groupchat together which is a total lie and that takane would be scared of ghosts instead of haruka which is also a lie (bitch canonically scared of zombie movies before getting over it bc of dead bullet)