things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever
change the color used to highlight text on your laptop
move the pictures on your wall
stack whatever clutter is in your room into piles even if you don’t have time to clean it all
slightly vary your commute, even just by one street
change where you sit and scroll aimlessly on your phone even if it’s only to the chair in your room instead of your bed
drink water or juice out of a wine glass in the morning because nothing is real
shower with the lights off, without music
buy $3 flowers at trader joe’s—they look bad next to the more expensive ones but they look so good in your room
start typing things you don’t post into your notes. your thoughts can be worth documenting even if you don’t deem them worth sharing
wake up super early just once. you don’t have to make it a habit it’s just extra satisfying to go to bed that night
listen to the entirety of your favorite album from 2015
Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!
The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!
This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!
Yes me too but I want to hear your interpretation. I want to hear your play on it. I want to see how you connect the dots, how you shift the puzzle pieces and make them fit. Show me it through your eyes.
Hold still. This creature was recorded going 2,569 days without moving.
Salamanders play the long game, with many species living surprisingly long lives. But among these enduring amphibians, there is one outlier – the olm, also known as the proteus.
It has been well documented that these small white cave-dwelling salamanders can live well into their hundreds, but scientists have now gained new insight into the creatures’ glacial pace of life.
In a study which makes sloths look recklessly hyperactive, divers documenting the movements of olms in Herzegovinian caves found that over a decade, individuals tended to move less than 10 metres in total.
However, one extraordinarily inert individual was found not to have bothered moving once in over seven years.
Olms
have no predators, are highly resistant to starvation – able to go without food for several years – are blind and live in complete darkness underground and underwater.
They are apparently only compelled to move in order to mate, which they do on average around once every 12.5 years.
In the caves in which they dwell food is typically scarce, but when they are able, olms feed on small crustaceans such as small shrimps, snails and occasionally insects.
language is literally so beautiful like in english “i miss you” comes from being unable to locate someone in the field after battle, it’s “i look for you but i can’t find you” but the french “tu me manques” is also about absence but it’s not something i do, it’s something that happens to me, as in “you are something essential lacking inside me”, in portuguese it’s either “sinto a tua falta” as in “i feel your absence” or, from solitude you get “saudade de você” as in “i am lonely [of] you”, and in spanish the word comes from stranger and it’s something one does, “te extraño” as in “i am making a stranger out of you”, and, and, and
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