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My husband said that when he was a kid he told his dad he just wanted to have fun. In response his dad said, "Son, the people I know who have the most fun are the most miserable."
People always think they're giving up something up by becoming responsible, dedicating their life to a greater calling, saying "no" to the immediate pleasure, doing the difficult thing, but the rewards are bountiful and beautiful. People who pursue fun at all costs always suffer for it. They are like children, bouncing from one whim to the next, unable to see that their slavery to their impulses is the source of their unhappiness, and not the fact they haven't found the "right" fun thing.
20 ADHD EXPERIENCES THAT FINALLY HAVE NAMES:
1. body doubling — you can't start alone, but with someone nearby, it happens
2. time blindness — there's no "later." only now, or not yet
One of the most beautiful scenes in cinema teaches one of life’s greatest lessons and on Mother’s Day, it hits especially deep.
In The Return of the King, Arwen, once immortal, is given a vision of her future son. Tears fill her eyes, not just from loss, but from the overwhelming clarity of what she will gain: the chance to hold that child in her arms, to love him, to raise him, to pour her entire being into his fleeting, precious life.
Her father warns her: “There is nothing for you here, only death.” Yet in that little boy’s eyes, she sees something brighter than eternity the vibrant, mortal miracle of motherhood. So she makes the choice. She lays down her elven immortality, embraces the Gift of Men, and accepts aging, goodbye, and eventual loss… all so she can become a mother.
Arwen didn’t just choose Aragorn. She chose motherhood. She traded endless twilight for the brightness of one mortal lifetime filled with love, laughter, scraped knees, bedtime stories, and the wild, irreplaceable joy of watching her child grow. In a world fading for the Elves, she reached for the warmth of human family instead.
This Mother’s Day, may we remember the quiet courage of every mother who has done something similar who has surrendered pieces of herself sleep, freedom, dreams, even parts of her own identity so that new life could bloom. True love, especially a mother’s love, often means choosing the finite so that something eternal can be born through it.
Thank you to every mother who said yes to the beautiful burden of raising the next generation. Your sacrifice is never unseen. Your legacy lives in the eyes of your children.
Happy Mother’s Day. 💐
This one. The way she was shy.. almost nervous.. clinging to the last real words he said to her which were that their love was nothing but a dream and choosing over and over again not to believe it. To trust in their love. To trust that he will return.
She was right 🥺
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books:
"I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that."
"I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that."
"To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff."
Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?
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