Younger me never could have imagined living into her 30s. She never REALLY believed that she'd get to draw for a living. She never imagined that incredible people would follow her art and be so kind as to support her... She also never DREAMED of getting tattoos or cutting her hair short and dying it gray. 🤣 Happy birthday, younger me. 💖🎂💖 Look at how far we've come. ✨️💖
I remember when I first started playing Stardew Valley, and genuinely thought it must be impossible to get a date for the first flower dance. Four hearts before spring 24th? Who could do that?
And now I regularly see YouTube videos pop up where people get married by day 17, or get married in three days with prep, and it’s like. Damn.
But even more surprising is the fact that on the playthrough I just started for the update, I managed to get two girls to four hearts before the flower dance. If only a younger me could see me now, achieving the impossible. I hope she’d be proud, even if it’s such a silly thing.
I learnt how to knit recently and I'm just thinking...when I was a kid I tried 3 separate times to learn how to knit. And I couldn't do it. And now I've taught myself the knit stitch and I'm making a scarf and figuring out what i need to teach myself next/how to make things I want to make. And idk I think past me would have been really happy that we finally learnt how to knit. We got it, after 4 tries. And we taught ourselves.
sometimes i think about how all younger me wanted was black leather jackets and cool fingerless gloves and then i look down at my black leather jacket and fingerless gloves and maybe he was right.
My therapist once said to me: “Imagine standing screaming in front of your younger self and throwing all your criticism at her. I'm sure she doesn't deserve anything, right?" No, because she deserves love, understanding and patience, even from herself
I don’t know what i would say, maybe it gets better? You wont be alone forever? You will get out of there? Please love yourself? I love you?
Maybe id say something like, hey kiddo, hold on for me okay? Hold on to those things that make you you, i know it will be hard, trust me, but in the end its worth it to know who you are. I know other girl will start to have their first kiss and stuff, but that doesn’t mean you need to okay? I know that you are too hard on yourself and if i could chance one thing in the world, it’d be that, but i can’t. You dont need to be like them, and i know to those words you’d scoff and say that you’d never even want that, but deep down i know there is a part of you that thinks that if you were to be like them they would maybe like you a bit more. But you need to stop being so hard on yourself, especially when you do things you said you would never do, like drink alcohol for the first time or start liking coffee, because changing isn’t something to be embarrassed about, it is important and i know that it is scary when you realize that your childhood is ending, but the more you think about that, the more of your childhood passes without you living it. So i guess what im trying to say is, dont be so hard on yourself kiddo, and start doing the things you want, the things you need.