It’s good to have an “unproductive” interest as an adult. Dare to “waste” some time reading up on ancient Egypt or space ships or bugs or dinosaurs like kids do, for the sheer joy of learning.
Julie Andrews, aka Good Cinderella, sips champagne out of a glass slipper after the triumphant live broadcast of the Rodgers & Hammerstein television musical on March 31, 1957, as Alice Ghostley, Edie Adams, and Kaye Ballard look on.
I hope you take time this weekend to read and reflect and create without having to worry about bills or bank accounts. I hope you remember that your worth is not in the hours you work or the money you generate. I hope you savor the joy of simply *being.*
My favorite people are the ones who never stop learning. Teach yourself a foreign language, master the art of cooking, read the classics, learn the names of the birds. Past scholars could never have imagined the banquet of knowledge laid before us. Feast boldly.
stop shaming people for enjoying things. not only is it hurtful to neurodivergents but you're telling people they aren't allowed a moment's pleasure in this increasingly scary and stressful world.
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Too many of us have tried to tone down our weirdness for friends or partners, only to later learn that we were suppressing the best things about us. There’s no joy like the joy of being your strange self and finding that there are people who love you for it.
me: I have a bit of free time, maybe I could do some reading
my brain: or you could worry about literally everything
me: or I could worry about literally everything