#take the scenic route

[maureen2musings]

Fall roads

jj.trailwalker

[bryonyashaw]

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Appreciating the little things in life involves focusing our attention on what is pleasurable, nurturing, and sustaining in our lives and away from those events that are annoying, frustrating, or hurtful. It means practicing gratitude for those everyday things that are easy to take for granted or miss altogether. Adopting this outlook won’t stop negative events from occurring, or change happening, but it may help prevent us from over-emphasising their importance in our lives and accepting time moves forward.

We are generally pretty good at marking the big moments in our own and others’ lives; birthdays, weddings, graduations, once-a-year family gettogethers. What would happen if we gave ourselves permission to celebrate the little things? The how and what of celebration will depend on what’s important to you.

Here are some ideas:

🌼 When the sun finally appears after a week of grey skies grab a friend or loved one and go for a walk to celebrate the good weather and regenerative effects of rain.

🌼Pamper yourself after getting through a daunting or tedious task, such as cleaning your room or writing a report, by doing something you enjoy.

🌼Look for the good stuff - like the small miracles that occur around us all the time.

🌼Focus on the fantastic aspects of people and situations

🌼Let go of arrogant, erroneous notions like, “I already know that,” or, “I’ve seen it all,” or, “No big deal."

So, take a moment right now to pause and put your attention on all of the simple things you can appreciate at this moment.

[immult]

this is. the most terrifying laudna has ever been to me. this is straight up making my spine and neck feel funny. i love it omfg. there is a skitter of animated pieces here and there, so you cannot distinguish the noise of something crawling to you. the whole room got too dark suddenly and it is now curled above you. something begins tugging at your back.

[voreasaurusrex]

gtober day 8: vintage definition: "the harvesting of grapes for winemaking." ft @madmythologist's character milli!!!! she's helping!!!

[qwertyfingers]

Alex Robertshaw epic autism moments | From Jon's instagram livestream, 30th April 2020

"Hello Jon, how hard is it to be in a band with Alex? From Arthur" [smile] Hello Arthur! It's impossible, he never listens to what you say, he's always off in cloud cuckoo land. [leans forward] Sorry for the swearing by the way Arthur. You can say a whole sentence to him and then turn around and he's just like [shrugs and shakes head] he hasn't heard it, so that can be very frustrating. But generally he's a very very very good musician, so that makes up for it.

[ohgeesoap]

Took the scenic route, eh?

@deadbranch

[cup-noodle]

Me when MotA ep5: wow this is the best episode so far, no question

Also me when MotA ep5:

[chaotictarlos]

I am refusing to let myself be stressed over the tragedy and just keep remembering that all roads lead to the wedding and season 4 ends with Tarlos on their honeymoon.

[theguartist]

Went and delivered some necessities and tasty treats to Big Bro, since this morning they haven't had to use an oxygen mask and the staff has said they might get to go home soon.

[saturniade]

started "running" to whip this hunk o meat into some shape & a random resource online said its ok to alternate 30 seconds running and 1-2 minutes walking and wow. enLIGHTENING. this method makes running way less intimidating and manageable

[pirefyrelight]

Ive been riding my bike to work for the past week or so and I've noticed a few things. One, of the two major roads that have bike lanes, both of them are shit and I have simply found an alternative route that uses sidestreets with less traffic, and two, random children on parking garage rooftops wildly overestimate my abilities.

To go into more detail on that second point:

The last stretch going to my work is a just steep enough decline that I've never noticed before when walking or driving, but am able to sail down into a pleasant breeze for about 3 blocks (baring stoplights and pedestrians). The downside, or rather the going up side of this, is that after a long day of work I might as well be climing everest biking home those first few blocks.

And of course, another thing I've noticed, is that no matter which way you're going there's a headwind.

So picture me, last week. 9 hour shift. No sitting down since I got on my bike that morning. Hot as balls but in that way it *could* theoretically be worse? In black pants and t-shirt as is dress code and I haven't gotten into the habit of bring shorts to change into yet. At the start of the summer I haven't been on a bike in at least 5 years, probably closer to 10, I am so incredibly out of shape.

So this goddamn child, this hooligan hanging out on the top of a three story parking garage, sees me battling for my goddam life, going uphill into a headwind and sweating so bad he can probably smell it from up there, calls "do a wheelie" like sir the only wheelie that's imminent from me is being blown back down the hill in such a way the front tires get caught first. The only trick doable from me right now is getting to the top without falling over.

[bryonyashaw]

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Do you want to build a snowman? Hell yes, pass me my gloves gotta use protection ❄️

[wasabi-gumdrop]

"Slow burn but they're having sex the whole time" is pretty much your brand at this point

so true 😞🫶🏼 that tweet got a lil too personal but i know what i am 🤧

[gofancyninjaworld]

Sharing circle

Garou: I was often picked on and misunderstood. Several heroes raise their hands.

Garou: I was never popular at school. More heroes raise their hands.

Garou: You don't get it. It's not the being picked on or being unpopular I minded. It was the fact that people just went along with what was popular and called it good without thinking about it. The hands don't go down.

Garou: I just want to actually make the world better, not just look like it's better. The hands still don't go down.

Garou: Unlike you guys, I'd do this even if no one was paying me or acknowledged me. The hands *still* don't go down

Garou: Wait...

[bereft-of-frogs]

I honestly can’t wait to start Path of Vengeance so I can figure out if that one dude took the fucking scenic route to report his findings or what

They’ve just kept being like ‘well we don’t have anything concrete to accuse the Path of yet’ the dead bodies?? They’ve already murdered two people? Hello??!

The middle part of Cataclysm is everyone just showing up at Dalna being like ‘omggg what are you doing here no what are you doing here’ I fully expect eventually the ghosts of Kevmo and Zallah to pop out like ‘hey guys thanks for finally showing up’ at some point (joking)

[fadeintolight]

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