Ash 🥂

dum spiro, spero ; while I breathe, I hope🍃

[Ash 🥂 @Ashwene_THINA]

I know I don't have great skin or hair but fuck it, my smile is my biggest flex 😁❤

[Love Music @khnh80044]

In Friends, the iconic “PIVOT!” scene was the most difficult scene David Schwimmer had to film. He yelled so absurdly that everyone kept breaking character, crying from laughter.
He later said: “I think it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in my life.”😂❤️

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You don't have to show everybody your full personality like it's very okay to be absolutely nobody to some people.

[A.VICTOR @Lifeof_AG01]

Ask your partner how they slept, how their day was, about work, what's on their mind, why they've been quiet, why they are being sensitive, what they'd like to eat, and where they'd like to go; make it a habit. Never let them feel unseen, unheard, or ignored.

[culture @notgwendalupe]

25 years ago today, Monica & Chandler got married in 'Friends'

[ɴᴀᴅɪ.🎀༘ @luvblessingz]

Older animation is always more appealing to me because they were aware that they were animating a cartoon. Now, they're so obsessed with hyperrealism. No, I don't need to see the character's individual eyelashes or their pulse; just make it look like a well-made cartoon.

[ᴘʀɪɴᴄᴇ @justprince]

i miss the golden age of DVD where every menu would be like this

[blue @bluewmist]

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain stopped releasing dopamine for your daily routine months ago.

Dopamine neurons are surprise detectors. They fire when reality differs from what your brain predicted. The same commute, the same gym, the same apartment-to-office-to-couch loop. After enough repetitions the prediction error goes to zero. Your reward signal flatlines. You're functionally numb to your own life by Wednesday.

Scrolling makes it worse because it feeds the exact circuit producing the feeling. Your default mode network activates whenever you're not focused on a task. It runs rumination, mind-wandering, self-reference. The phone hands it low-resolution inputs to chew on while your attention network sits idle. Three hours later you feel worse than when you started.

Novelty is the only thing that resets the system. Walking a neighborhood you've never seen generates hundreds of small prediction-error signals per minute. The hippocampus encodes a new spatial memory. The VTA fires. Your brain reads that as being alive.

This is what the "side quest" framing is actually pointing at. The human attention system was calibrated for forager environments where every day contained dozens of novel spatial and social inputs. The modern equivalent is three screens and a one-mile radius around your apartment.

Hedonic adaptation finishes the job. The brain returns to baseline on any repeated reward within weeks. Even pleasant routines stop registering. Same gym, same restaurant, same Friday plans collapse into background noise.

The fix is mechanical. One unfamiliar neighborhood per week. One conversation with a stranger. One activity you've never tried. Enough input for the hippocampus to encode a new memory and the VTA to fire. That's what shifts the feeling.

[Mamello🧚🏽‍♀️ @MelloFelicia1]

Getting opportunities that scare the shit out of you >>>

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

this mindset will ruin u. that part of her life is not your burden to carry, it's her job to fix her shit and you shouldn't feel sorry for the people who hurt you if you want to make it out of there with even the tiniest sliver of sanity

[KAT @reallKAT]

i will marry the right person and I won’t have to regret anything.

[$ @jxtsummer]

you literally just have to get really good at continuing

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Giving your partner a break from decision fatigue is a love language. Removing someone's mental load is the highest form of consideration.

[𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖉 @6looted]

normalise using words like colleague, classmate, acquaintance, old school mate, neighbour, and client.

not everybody is your friend.

[2𝓼𝓶𝓸𝓴𝓮𝔂𝔂 @nomodeath]

A relationship so stable you can buy concert tickets 4 months in advance >>

[blue @bluewmist]

most of your "adult" problems can be avoided if you:

- regularly workout
- get a 2nd income source
- eat real food
- find 3 real friends
- live below your means
- do what you love for work
- don't have kids with the wrong person

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

Hit the gym. Avoid drama. Smell amazing. Make a ton of money. Level up your circle. Talk less. Pray more. Think highly of yourself.

[blue @bluewmist]

exercise is a celebration of what you can do. not a punishment for what you ate.