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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
To be Reading list:
- What we owe to each other: T.M. Scanlion
- Eat that Frog!: Brian Tracy
- The subtle art of not giving a f*uck: Mark Manson
- Do the work: Gary John Bishop
- Unf*ck yourself: Gary John Bishop
- You are a badass: Jen Sincero
- Il metodo Ikigai: Héctor Garcia
- How to get shit done: why women need to stop doing everything so they can achieve anything: Erin Falconer
- Diventa chi sei: Emilie Wapnick
- Il principe crudele (The cruel prince): Holly Black
- Rosso, bianco e sangue blu (Red, white and royal blue): Casey McQuiston
- La strega e il cacciatore (Serpent and Dove): Shelby Mahurin
- Jewelry in the 18th century: pag 18
- La calligrafia: pag 4
Jewelry in the 18th century: pag 18;ended it! One of my hobbies is making jewelry so this was very interesting, especially on the stones and bling front. Definitely will read more books on the topic.
La calligrafia: pag 6. And here I was, thinking I was this close to the ending. But no. Two pages.
To be Reading list:
- What we owe to each other: T.M. Scanlion
- Eat that Frog!: Brian Tracy
- The subtle art of not giving a f*uck: Mark Manson
- Do the work: Gary John Bishop
- Unf*ck yourself: Gary John Bishop
- You are a badass: Jen Sincero
- Il metodo Ikigai: Héctor Garcia
- How to get shit done: why women need to stop doing everything so they can achieve anything: Erin Falconer
- Diventa chi sei: Emilie Wapnick
- Il principe crudele (The cruel prince): Holly Black
- Rosso, bianco e sangue blu (Red, white and royal blue): Casey McQuiston
- La strega e il cacciatore (Serpent and Dove): Shelby Mahurin
- Jewelry in the 18th century: pag 18
- La calligrafia: pag 4
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The Goldfinch: Donna Tartt
Local Girl Missing: Claire Douglas
La Progenie: Guillermo del Toro
The Silent Companions: Laura Purcell
La calligrafia: ended it! All in all, a pleasant introduction to calligraphy, but probably a bit advanced for me and my old ass pens.
(that's what you get from thrifting everything you own)
The most important thing is the fact that I hereby state my obsession for the English cursive.
The frog got eaten. One book less on the list!
- Il principe crudele (The cruel prince): Holly Black
- Rosso, bianco e sangue blu (Red, white and royal blue): Casey McQuiston
- La strega e il cacciatore (Serpent and Dove): Shelby Mahurin
I have decided to remove these books from the list because, quite frankly, I don’t think they will be useful to me at the moment (a woman needs to get her shit together and i doubt young adult is fit for the job). Self help books it is.
itβs a beautiful feeling
if i can’t hand my lover a cup of coffee and kiss their forehead while they are working then what even is the point