I can't emphasize enough how important it is to show up for the people you love. Go to the funeral. Go to the hospital. You don't have to say anything, just be there. People may forget your words, but they'll always remember whether you showed up when they needed you most.
The best part of travel isn’t the tourist attractions; it’s the random café you found by accident, the stranger who helped you when you were lost, and the moments you could never plan for.
Anyone else stuck in this weird cycle where work is so exhausting that your hobbies feel like too much work, so you don’t do them, and then you go back to work upset that you didn’t take time to do the things you enjoy?
Once you realize that anything can happen—sickness, death, or losing your job, literally anything in the blink of an eye—you become very humble. Tables turn, and that’s how crazy life can get. Always pray, stay humble, and be thankful.
After losing my dad in late December this quote from Winnie the Pooh “how lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” has been carrying me through my grief💔
Did anybody else’s music taste just sort of…stop evolving after a certain age?
I feel like once I hit my 30s I became content with listening to 80s-00s music forever.
It’s very rare for new music to interest me.
15 things to do with your father while he is still alive. I lost mine 8 years ago.
1. Ask him what he was like at your age because once he was the same age you are right now & Watch his face light up as he tells you stories from when he was younger
2. Record his laugh when he tells one of his signature jokes. Someday you will replay the video over and over just to hear it again
3. Ask him about the proudest moment of his life. (Odds are he will say when you were born)
4. Ask him his favourite songs
Listen to them together, laugh, sing and be happy. These will become your most cherished memories in years to come
5. Take a picture of him doing something he loves. Watching tv, gardening, playing the guitar, anything. When you look back these will be the pictures that will make you smile the most
6. Tell him you love him even if it's something you don't normally do.
7. Tell him you are proud to be his son/daughter This will mean more to him than you realise (even if he doesn't show it)
8. Listen to music from his youth and watch him turn from dad into a young man again
9. Take a short video of him talking about something random sacred Someday even the ordinary things he said become
10. Bring up something you are thankful for from years ago
11. Ask him what it was like for him growing up
12. Call him for no reason
Don't take being able to do this for granted.
Someday you would give anything to hear his voice again.
13. Take a picture of just the 2 of you together
14. Ask him to show you an old photo of him because seeing him young will remind you that he wasn't always Dad
15. Tell him something you are struggling with, no matter what age you are Because even when your grown it means the world to him to feel like he can still help
Let him give you advice, even if you don't need it because one day you will give anything to hear his voice guiding you again
some books you are meant to buy and have sit on your shelf until the version of you who is meant to read it is born. i’ll always support buying an insane amount of books.
If you woke up today and:
-Have a job where you can make money
-Have your health
-Can call both your parents
-Have access to food & water
-Can go move your body & sweat
It's a good day regardless of what your brain is trying to tell you.
Can’t believe tomorrow is NYE, this has been quite the year for me. I can say that I learned a lot, I’ve grown a lot & I am pleased with who I am today.