#take for granted

[screaming--agony]

Dear Diary,

I don’t care anymore. Nothing changes.

#dear diary #heart vs mind #broken record #i’m so done #i have nothing left to give #i’m fed up #take for granted #tick tock #i don’t care anymore #struggling #deceit #at a loss for words #sad #numb #weight of the world #overwhelmed #invisible #hollow #sick of being sick #ptsd #i wish it meant as much to you as it does to me #wishful thinking

[justana0kguy]

2023 SEPTEMBER 19 Tuesday

"We cannot take the present moment for granted. Because the future that lies before us is uncertain. Life itself is uncertain. Live accordingly–or rather, as Seneca said, live immediately."

~ Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Newsletter

#Ryan Holiday #daily stoic #quote #present #moment #take for granted #future #uncertain #life #live #accordingly #Seneca #live accordingly #live immediately

[depresseddorothy]

I like to maintain a well balanced routine.

Get up feeling like shit, try to make people don't discard me, think of 99 ways of dying today. Remember that it wouldn't please some of them if I really died. Also remember that actually no one cares.

Try to sleep and fail. Write useless depressed snips of my soul. Get up feeling like shit. Repeat.

#Depression #Depressed #depressing shit #I want to die #I want to cry #i hate this #i feel like shit #Take for granted

[momentsbeforemass]

Thanksgiving

Remember a couple of months ago? When we talked about how to start each day?

Not just first thing out of bed. But before that, before your feet ever hit the floor.

About taking one minute to start each day. By making a list of everything you’re grateful to God for?

If you actually did that, then you know how good it is. What a radical difference it makes in your day. Even the worst days, days that desperately want to be retched, are better.

If you haven’t done it, then today would be a great day to start. Kind of perfect, really. Since today is all about…well, you know.

Why? What’s the big deal with gratitude? With giving thanks?

Giving thanks. Not in some abstract sense, but directly, specifically. That changes something inside us. It makes a connection for us. Whether it’s with a thing, or a situation, or a relationship.

If you’ve ever wondered why some people are happy and other people in the exact same circumstances are miserable, this is what it all turns on.

In the words of St. John Chrysostom, “Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.” 

That is, happiness is no accident. It’s not something that happens to us. Or some fragile thing that can be snuffed out like a candle on the whim of fleeting circumstances.

Happiness is durable. But it’s not something we can seek directly.

Happiness is a by-product of something else. That something else is gratitude.

And gratitude is a choice. A deliberate, calculating choice to see the things and people in our life as the gifts that they really are. Things that we get to have. People we get to know.

All of which the love of God has given to us. None of which had to happen.

Even so, whether they are a burden to us or a joy is entirely our choice.

“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” - G.K. Chesterton

Today’s Readings

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Take for Granted #Happiness #Choice #Moments Before Mass

[old-movies-stuff]

Labyrinth - 1986

#labyrinth #1986 #david bowie #the worm #worm #karen prell #timothy bateson #take for granted #taking for granted #granted

[pauldelancey]

Archer Woman on Supermarkets

It’s best to mind Archer Woman. Archer woman #11 – Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D. My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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#Archer Woman #baggers #beneficial #checkers #Chef Paul #Comic Chef #cookbook #Lutheran #murders #Paul De Lancey #supermarkets #take for granted #thank them #thriller

[utilitycaster]

"why should I get invested in shows if they'll just get canceled" I was deeply invested in Heroes (2006) and it was not canceled, it just got really terrible. I also got really invested in the sandwich I had a few weeks ago despite it only lasting like 15 minutes. You must embrace the ephemeral. You must be willing to love things that may not love you back, that might betray you, or that may die an untimely death. As the great philosopher Mr. Mitchell Lee Hedberg said "I'm not gonna stop doing something because of what happens at the end."

#now granted he did die of a drug overdose but you know. one can take the good lessons #anyway. point being i understand being deeply frustrated with the state of the tv and film. #but also we can admit that for every gem canceled there's like three real duds too #idk if you want something that's guaranteed to have a bunch of seasons and you know the ending for go watch shows from the 70s #the number of adults on this site who lack the emotional wherewithal to watch an ongoing narrative is. yikes. #queue

[knowledgevariabledarcy]

#take five #take from that what you will #take flight #take for granted #Youtube

[kaurwreck]

I hope Fyodor is in Nikolai's body now and that he's forced to experience Nikolai's love for him in such a way that he can't escape because he's joined them irrevocably. I hope it does something deranged to his psyche to parasitically gorge himself on someone who had, with utter, grief-stricken sincerity, mourned him.

I hope Fyodor drowns in the horrifying waves of intimacy as he subsumes the only person who didn't need a lobotomy to adore him.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd fyodor #bsd nikolai #fyolai #bsd 114 #in other words #i hope he is punished in ways he could not previously fathom #for the wretched crime of taking nikolai for granted

[thirddoctor]

fandoms are still so transparently male-centric. I'm tired of hearing about people's """babygirls""" and the pathetic wet little guys they're obsessed with. have you ever spent a single second thinking about a female character's interiority

#Ranger shut up #I see so many posts taking for granted the idea that everyone's faves are guys #and it always irks me

[psychotrenny]

The way Zionists keep going on about 7th October is so fucking pathetic. Like it's a single offensive by the people you've been brutalising for your State's entire existence*, that killed a tiny fraction of the non-combatants that you murder on a regular basis (both directly like through shootings and bombings as well as indirectly like through diseases and malnutrition) with a large proportion of said deaths being due to your own incompetent fucking military, and these idiots have the audacity to treat it as some unfathomable horror as if they weren't fucking constantly doing this sort of shit to Palestine. They're ignoring all of Israel's countless past atrocities and using the desperate response that said atrocities provoked as a cheap way to excuse the new atrocities. There's something so deeply sickening about using bullshit accusations of "genocide" to justify the intensification of an actual genocide. Like considering the circumstances Al-Quassam fighters consistently show an incredible amount of mercy and restraint to their oppressors, far more than Israel has ever shown to them

*longer if you count the terrorist violence of groups like Haganah and Irgun

#this isn't even getting into the debate on whether any participant in an active project of imperialist setterlism can be called a “civilian” #but most of these arrogant cunts take it for granted even as they casually accuse all Palestinians of ultimately serving Hamas #Stella Speaks

[whimsymazzy]

#girlblogging #girlblogs #femcel #coquette #gaslight gatekeep girlblog #this is a girlblog #just a girl #coquette community #hot take #girlblog #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #female hysteria

[justana0kguy]

#photograph #Cebu Pacific #Smile #magazine #article #quote #take for granted #wild spaces #live #forget #gift #share

[depresseddorothy]

I go overboard. Burn myself to ashes to heat them up in cold nights.

I don't know how to preserve myself. How to do less. I cross every line that I traced just to protect, heal, please, love and give. To them. Always to them.

And more than often I catch myself tired. Feeling used. Feeling stupid.

So why I'm being consumed by the thought that I wanted to be needed by someone? Really needed?

#actually boderline #boderline personality disorder #INFJ #take for granted #people pleaser #it hurts so much #I'm tired of everything #I'm not ok #i want to be loved #i want to die

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

#fantasy high junior year #fhjy #riz gukgak #figueroth faeth #sklonda gukgak #dimension 20 #this. mmmmhhh this is so. I did Not know how to draw this really. #I am very normal about riz (<- lying) #it's a brennan-dm d20 campaign the bad guy is always capitalism (I am saying this with clenched teeth) #riz out of all of them being aroace fucks with me SO bad. bc its also established that elmsville specifically and probably the #majority of solace is not. made for goblins. and that becomes sklonda being worked to the bone and pok dying on the job #and riz spending all his time trying to keep his friends together. maybe to the point of it being injurous #like. do u get what I mean. its an economy of time it takes your time it eats up your time #not just the gukgaks but everyone you have to spend time to get to live and you don't have a lot of time left in a day #and you have to spend it carefully. you have to prioritize #you're somewhere without an established community and companionship is bought with your time spent working #this place doesn't take care of you. at the end of the day who do you have who'd prioritize you. do you understand me #the evolved aroace loathing where if your friends and family are granted more time nobody would have to choose. we live in a society #holds ur hand we live in a society. idk if Im making any sense #anyway . uhhh riz is my favourite that's my statement thank you for listening. au revoir

[idkaguyorsomething]

the convoluted doctor who lore gets extra funny when you realize that, at two separate points in the past, two different companions to two different doctors ended up running into rasputin but both came to the conclusion that he was a pretty nice and normal guy. which, depending on how you interpret the power of the doctor, is either a nice subversion of a lot of tropes of stories used in pre-soviet russia, or side-splittingly hilarious as you start imagining the master getting roped into various adventures with different versions of the doctor that he can’t fuck with yet or else he’ll destroy the timeline, forcing him to play nice with the humans as part of his 4D Time Chess Master Disguise Plan #3852

#doctor who #rasputin #in case you’re wondering the companions were #ian chesterton #liz shaw #and #jo grant #who kept explicitly making references to the master throughout the story #but wait it gets better #at one point it was proposed to make a story with this one time lord called the meddling monk #who just decides to start fucking around with the timeline and forces rasputin to listen to boney m #but apparently this actually drives rasputin to the brink on insanity and destroys the entire timeline #forcing the monk to regenerate into rasputin to take his place and live out his life #and that’s why he decided to go by the monk #it was never technically canonized but could you imagine the mindfuck #you have a time lord impersonating another time lord impersonating a normal guy who may or may not have actually existed in the whoniverse #who even knows at this point #the untempered schism didn’t drive the master mad it was a funky disco beat #grigori rasputin #dhawan!master