#thus would have been 'wasting precious therapy session time'

[spacecrows]

why do showers give me 10 minutes of galaxy brain and then it's right back to 1 braincell??

[whatta-babe]

When Life Gives you Lemons| Peter Parker x Gender Neutral Reader

WARNING: THIS IS SET POST-ENDGAME! CONTAINS SPOILERS SO READ WITH CAUTION! Also, super mediocre writing, so I’m really sorry.

Summary: It’s hard trying to go back to the way things were before the Snap, but hopefully with Ned and MJ’s meddling, Peter can start coping and even be happy again. Maybe the dog named Lemon and her pretty owner can help with that...

As much as Peter tried, he couldn’t quite get used to his new life. How could have the five hours he was gone really be five years?

Losing Tony was even harder for him. His father figure and role model was now gone for good. Sure Happy was trying, but it would never be the same. No one could ever rival Tony’s personality, jokes, teasing, nicknames, aura. The only one who came close was Morgan, and he was excited to see how she would turn out to be. Luckily, Pepper and her would drop by once a week or so to catch up.

A week after the second Snap, school resumed as if it had never even stopped, but the world around Peter had changed. With half of the world population gone it wasn’t like there were any technological advancements or anything but still. For example, his chemistry teacher had grown significantly wrinkled and gray- not from just age but with the grief of losing everyone he loved.

And Aunt May, oh god, it was impossible to imagine what she had to go through in those five years alone- first she had lost Uncle Ben and them her precious nephew, no, son. That had been a very tearful and unforgettable reunion.

At least the teen had MJ and Ned. With them, Peter could almost pretend that everything was normal, that he wasn’t falling apart inside, but they noticed that he was not the cheerful naive little nerd they knew and loved. And when it became clear that their dear friend still wasn’t adjusting to their new reality, they did what any concerned friend would do: put up a Facebook ad to find some cheap one-on-one dog therapy sessions. What? They had been all over the Internet before the Snap!

They knew that Facebook was an old people site, but one has to admit, word travels fast there, and so two days later, there was no surprise when a promising application came in.

Y/N L/N was a sixteen year old just like them, and while their dog wasn’t technically an official emotional support animal, they were offering a super affordable price. Ned booked two sessions a week for one month to start out- he had to see where it was going to go before booking more. He was really hoping that it would- one, because he wanted his best friend to feel better, and two, because-

“Not gonna lie, that puppy’s hella cute. I would totally steal it.” This type of praise from MJ was unprecedented.

Ned couldn’t help but agree. “I texted May and Old Captain America for permission- which I still can’t get over. How is he still so handsome when he’s practically one hundred years old?”

“Focus, you dweeb!”

“Oh- right, right- sorry. Hmm- yeah. The first session is in two days, so now we just need to somehow get Peter to the Avengers’ Compound 2.0 without being too sus or him figuring it out. It definitely would have been easier if we could do it at a park, but he needs some peace a quiet for this type of thing, you know? The dog owner won’t be too questioning about the location, right?”

Thus, operation “When Life Gives You Lemons” commenced. MJ, being the clever and sarcastic girl she was, had come up with the name- the dog’s name was Lemon.

Somehow, some way, Ned and MJ managed to get Peter to Upstate New York without him getting suspicious. Well…

“Where are we going, guys? To the Avengers’ Compound? Why would we be going there? Happy would have texted me to let me know if I had to come up-” The poor boy was squeaking himself into a frenzy.

After many more anxious questions (which received no answers to Spider-Man’s great annoyance), the three teens finally arrived, and it was just after they got out of the car when Ned put his hands on Peter’s shoulders.

“Look, bro. You’re my best friend, so you must be dumber than Jar Jar Binks if you think that I, your Man in the Chair and most amazing guy on the planet, didn’t notice that you were really struggling. You should have told me, Peter.”

The boy being scolded could only look down in shame. “I know. I should have… I’m sorry.”

“No hard feelings. Just talk to me next time.” Their “secret” handshake sealed the promise.

“This is tooth-rotting stuff, dorks, but there’s an appointment that can’t be missed.” Of course MJ decided to interrupt the moment. This was totally the opposite of the pain and suffering she loved to witness.

“Wha-” A dog’s bark cut through Peter’s confused exclamation.

The friends looked around to find a gorgeous teen jogging slightly towards them as a puppy pulled on the leash.

Once there was only a twenty yard gap between them, the newcomer released their grip on the leash and therefore released the only thing between the group and the hyper dog.

Lemon's brindle colored fur blurred into a streak of brown and black as she galloped towards them. On instinct, Peter kneeled to the ground with his arms open, and not 2 seconds later, she was in his arms, yapping happily as she licked and nipped at his chin in delight.

Peter giggled his cute little giggle as Ned and MJ quietly began to walk to the compound in order to let him be alone with Y/N and Lemon. It was only after they stopped in front of him that he looked behind him for support and found his friends gone.

He gazed up at you, but due to the harsh sunlight coming from above, all he could see was a halo of light as the rays hit the hair surrounding their face a creating a shadow that obscured their features.

Oh right! You have to introduce yourself, you idiot! "Hey! I'm Peter Parker." He clumsily stood up after putting the jumping dog to the ground.

His heart stuttered in his chest when he finally made eye contact with the stranger. He has never seen anyone more beautiful in his life. Sure he was Spider-Man and had amazing vision, but he hadn't been paying much attention to anyone but the dog when they were initially walking over. It was only now, face to face, that he could see them clearly.

~~

You're body tingled at his stare, and you stuttered a soft hello before introducing yourself. You had not been expecting to see such a handsome boy, and you ached to thread your fingers through his wavy brown hair.

~~

A hacking cough interrupted both teens’ daydreams, and they looked to down to see the pup chewing away at the grass. With a clear tsk of disapproval from her owner, Lemon stopped immediately, and they took this as their moment to explain what the situation was because Ned had let them know of the surprise part of the situation.

"This is Lemon, my 3 month old Dutch Shepherd, and your friends hired me to bring her here for a little bit of puppy therapy. Do you know what that is?" Peter's nod prodded them to continue. "For sessions of one and a half hours, two days a week, you can play with Lemon, hold her, talk to her, pet her, let her lay on top of you, anything like that. I always say that she loves strangers more than she loves me, and I can already tell that she’s obsessed you." Like me.

~~

As a hopeless romantic you always wanted to believe in love at first sight, but the realist in you constantly nagged against it. But here this was, a feeling that you had never felt before, to the boy that was a stranger.

But you weren't going to let go of him easily. No, you had one month's worth of appointments that had been booked, and you were not going to waste any time in wooing him.

~~

Peter was sure he was in love with this angel, and he was convinced that (eventually) he would win you over with his adorkable personality. His strategy? He could definitely use this dog as a way to both cope with the changes that coming back from the Snap brought and connect with her owner too. You know, when life gives you lemons...

[dexplainsitall]

On Failing

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

It is September 1st. It is the start of a new month, and some would even say it is the start of the end of the year. It has started getting chilly. Soon, the leaves will begin to fall. Some people get nostalgic. Others prepare for the rest of the months left of the year. To me, it is the perfect time to reflect about the events that have transpired for the past year of my life.

It was June, 2016, and the world was in the palms of my hands. I had finally graduated from College, after four long years of studying. Imagine my surprise when it was announced I had the best grades of the 2012-2016 Class. I had worked day and night for that moment. I had rejected invitations to go out to several places. I had stopped traveling and spending time with love ones to study. I had woken up at night with answers or ideas for my different projects. I had even stopped doing what I love most for months ─writing. It hadn’t been for nothing. I had done something I had wanted to from the moment I stepped foot into my first class. I had done it. I had made my family proud. Most importantly, I had made myself proud. It was a historic event. The first time in my life I had done something worthwhile. I hadn’t come second or third, I had been first. Now, writing this, the memories of that time flood me. I feel the adrenaline rushing to my veins. I feel the joy of that moment. It was like being on top of the world.

That elation, like all things, soon came to an end. A month had passed by since graduation day, and I was still unable to get a job. That did not worry me that much. My plan was not jumping into the work wagon immediately after College. I wanted to write a portfolio for the MFA I wanted to get into. I wanted enough time to get all my documents in order, and write the best poetry pieces I had ever written thus far. The due date was April 15th, and I felt the clock ticking. My family, however, didn’t have the same idea. Ever the pragmatics, it was unthinkable for me to not be actively looking for a job (even though I was). How did the student with the best grades still unemployed? They wanted me to go out, knocking on every school in the estate, asking for a job. Obviously, things do not work in this way, not anymore at least. The pressure was such that I gave in, and started looking more into it. As was expected, jobs for an English major were scarce. Experience was a main problem. Most places looked for people with more than three years of experience. In practice, I had one. This complicated things. I sent my résumé first to a translation company. I went to all the interviews, and I passed their exam. However, they had people with more experience, and thus I wasn’t hired. I kept looking for anything that I could do. In my desperation, I sent my résumé to the school I had studied in as a child. They sent me an email back, saying there was a position for an English teacher available… in preschool. Do not get me wrong, I do like kids. As a child, one of my dreams was to be a teacher. I imagined myself teaching little kids. However, I did not study to teach preschool. Elementary school, yes. But not preschool. Although I didn’t feel like I had the abilities, I succumbed to my mother’s and grandmother’s pressure to get a job.

You have to understand something about me. I was always a good girl. I was always a smart girl. The girl who always got the best grades, and when she got less than ideal marks, she would get depressed. The girl who had anxiety when she was nine years old because she couldn’t get the grades she wanted. The girl who felt frightened about the possibility of being a failure in life when she was just a child. Growing up, I thought that I would have my life put together by age twenty two. Yet, the reality showed that I even couldn’t get a job. I took it. I went to the interviews. I wasted precious hours of my life getting interviewed, answering exams, feeling anxious about the result. I got the job. I was warned that it was going to be difficult, but I quickly forgot about it when I saw my family’s happy faces. That was a grave mistake.

What you do not realize about teachers until you become a teacher yourself is the amount of time you spend on your job. Most people go in, work for eight hours, and go home, having time to rest. Teachers work eight hours at school, and then go home to work more. During this time, I spent a lot of my time lesson planning and preparing material at home. While in school, I of course had to teach, and be with the kids. It was exhausting. Coordinators and the principal expect you to have three year olds seating and behaving. It seemed almost impossible when all the boys liked to run around the classroom, or hit each other. The girls were calmer, but they too had their moments of misbehaving. The parents, though, were worse than their children. They wanted all teachers to focus entirely on their own child, when there were other twelve to look for. They complained every week about me or another poor teacher. The coordinator and the principal, of course, always took the parents’ side. It was a nightmare. I came home exhausted from dealing with bratty kids and their bratty parents. I had to keep working at home, lesson planning, preparing material for my classes, and, on top, making gifts for the kids for the school’s many events. I was asked to stay an hour after I should have gone home to attend meetings. I was forced to stay one day a whole evening “playing” with children. I never got paid extra for doing overtime. The other teachers also complained about this. The older ones said that things had always been like this. I felt bad. I thought about my previous teachers, the ones I had had in this school, and wondered if they had ever gotten shit because of me.

The treatment was unfair, and the job underpaid. But I kept working. In all honesty, I wanted to quit after the first week. I endured, though. I endured because my mother always told me I was a quitter, and that I had to stick with my decision. So, I did. I kept working because I was getting paid more than all my old College classmates. I kept working because I told myself I needed the money. I worked because I didn’t want to be a quitter. I missed events with my friends because I had to work or was too exhausted to go out. I started getting sick every two weeks due to stress. I felt gloomy all the time. Soon, I noticed the obvious signs of depression looming their way into my life. I came home crying every day. I began tearing up while giving classes. I felt like shit. What was worse was that I had stopped writing altogether. I had lost my will to write. Meanwhile, April 15th continued ticking inside my mind like a time bomb. I was wasting precious time doing something I hated that should have been spent writing.

I went to a therapy session with my psychiatrist. He told me that the best thing I could was to quit. My friends, who had noticed me slowly losing my mind, told me that I should do it. In the long run, I was going to be seriously depressed, and I could hurt myself. I was also losing time not writing. I decided to do it. As expected my family got angry, and told me I was making the biggest mistake of my life. That I was a failure. The pain I felt at their words and constant reminders that I was not going to find another job were nothing like the freedom I felt when I stopped going to my job. The principal got very upset too, and swore I was never going to get hired at another school. I didn’t care. I decided not to work at another school with little kids, definitely not in preschool again.

During the next few weeks, I found my writing voice again. I started writing the poetry pieces I was missing for my portfolio. I felt genuinely happy for a change. I finally had time to do what I love most. I wrote with everything I got. I started looking for a job again, and by the beginning of December I got a new job as a part-time English teacher at a local English Center. During the beginning of the New Year, I worked on the mornings, and came home to write. I put all of my documents in order. I had my friends check my portfolio and my statement of purpose. When I wasn’t doing these things, I edited two plays, and started translating various documents. In short, I was going all of the things I had learned in College. I felt useful. I felt happy.

When April 15th came around, I submitted all of my documents and waited.

During the next month, I kept working, now as a translation teacher too for the same school. I had the time to meet new people. My coworkers were all interesting people, having interesting experiences. My students were too. They needed to learn English, and later translation, to keep their jobs. I learned about their families, the kind of work they do, their aspirations. I loved seeing their faces light up when they finally understood something, or when I praised their efforts. I always told them they could do better, and I was pleasantly surprised when they took my words at heart and did it. Things had fallen into place for me, and now all I had to do was wait to see if I had made it into the MFA.

They say that with May comes new opportunities. However, in May my hopes and dreams were crushed. It is funny how they reject you nowadays. You log into your account, and there, waiting for you, is a message which says in bold letters “REJECTED.” Next, the words “We regret to inform you that…” but you don’t care. You already know what happened. You have been rejected. The words big and clear. I felt like I had been pierced through my soul with those letters. I hated them. I got depressed again. My dream, the one I had worked on for so long, seemed so far away. Worst of all, I felt like a failure. Feeling a bit hopeful, I sent three poems to a magazine which had opened a contest to publish fifteen poems. I got rejected there as well. After this last rejection, I had to face the facts. I was a failure in many ways.  I had a minimum wage job, I had been rejected from my dream MFA, my poetry had been once again rejected by a magazine, and lastly my love life was inexistent. I had failed in every possible aspect of my life.

When I was a child, and later a teenager, I had dreaded not having my shit together by the age of twenty three. I had planned to be successful. To have a high paying job, to have published something, and to have had found the love of my life already. At twenty three, I hadn’t achieved any of these things, while I had to watch my high school classmates all traveling the world, getting married, getting amazing jobs, getting into master’s degrees in important universities worldwide. What had I done? Nothing. I was my worst nightmare. When I looked into the mirror that is all I saw: a nightmare.

I had discovered that what they say about reaching rock bottom is true. Once you’re there, there’s nowhere to go but up. What does this mean for me? Firstly, stop whining about my misfortune. I want to be a published writer. I will do it someday, somehow. So, I’m going to keep writing. I’m going to experiment and see what comes from that. Currently, I have two projects: a poetry collection and a novel. Secondly, I will look into other options for a master’s degree. Thirdly, even if my current job is ideal, I do not hate it and that’s progress. I will keep it until I find something better. Lastly, I decided to continue on with this blog, which I had abandoned when my life spiraled out of control. I will keep publishing my ramblings, but with a lot more literature. So, whoever is reading this, if you think you have failed, Congratulations! You have just learned something about yourself. The ones who have failed, are tougher now. Follow your ambitions, and see where they take you. After this, you can only keep on climbing up.

[alysaalban]

Reiki Energy Spots Marvelous Useful Ideas

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Formation Reiki 06

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Golden Pyramid Reiki Symbol

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