My kids have mandatory silent reading time every day. Neighbors didn't want to leave, so they were invited to stay. That means 6 kids sat in silence in a room for 20 minutes. Miracles do happen!
If you don’t like cats, I’m convinced there’s something spiritually off. Because cats are the most intuitive, high frequency animals on this planet. They don’t chase attention they read energy. They don’t beg they choose YOU. And if a cat gravitates toward you? Just know you’re marked as a safe haven & your energy is top tier.
@oliveegger Agreed. What’s really getting me is these people think they’re the “good guys”. You can dislike someone’s gift, think it’s weird or even be suspicious about their intentions. Regardless, your response should be “thanks”, and that’s it. Never cruelty based purely on speculation.
Unpopular opinion perhaps but I've been fascinated by the rise of visible interpersonal cruelty since Covid, overwhelming decades and in some cases centuries of training about good manners. In the 20th century, "etiquette" was especially a mass obsession. Six years after Covid began, we're still seeing a population in which people who should know better behave in absolutely feral ways.
@CatWomaniya In my experience with daily commutes where I live, if there are multiple open seats, men tend to take the ones beside women b/c (they assume) women take up less space, so they will get extra room (aka part of the woman’s seat) on top of their own if they sit there. Very annoying.
@themaddierune P.S. She was very lucky to have you as a friend, so her loss. If I’d had someone who showed me such thoughtfulness during my hard times, I might be in a much better place in my life!
@themaddierune I hope you tell her that she acted very unkindly. You have zero reason to be embarrassed. Even if she felt your thoughtful actions were “too much”, there is NO reason to respond the way she did - yes, even if she’s going through a hard time. You absolutely deserve better friends.
Nothing worse in everyday society than a person who smiles to your face while seeking to undermine and destroy you behind your back. This tactic seems often to be wielded by women, and I always seem to attract them. They prey on people they THINK are “too nice” and thus “weak”.🙄
whimsical people are whimsical because they’re hopeful. they’re always looking out for ways to romanticize life. even if you aren’t consciously spiritual, this is a highly spiritual trait, to have fun, to play with life and to invite joy by constantly noticing magic everywhere
@luxemiaa Horrific. When I was 8 years old, my grandfather SA’ed me when he got me alone while I was sick. After the second time, I finally found the courage to tell my Mom, and she screamed at ME. I’ll never forget that. I can’t understand people who have no empathy for their children.
@kittykareninas Is she only using AI to bounce ideas off of though, or is she literally copy-pasting writing from AI? Rie Qudan won the Akutagawa Prize a couple of years ago and admitted AI wrote about 5% of her book. 🤦🏻♀️
@romanhelmetguy It was - I saw it in the cinema. A fantastic film with one of those pesky "historically inaccurate" orchestral movie scores that Nolan seems to suddenly hate. James Horner's score for this film was a major reason I needed to see it in the cinema!
@thiegonovais My favorite book was Chamber of Secrets, and I also adored that film, but I loved the aesthetics in the Prisoner of Azkaban film which made the world feel even more lived-in. (Plus it features my favorite character (Lupin)!)
I was the "pleasure to have in class" neurodivergent, except for those extremely rare moments when something would activate my justice sensitivity. Rather than check what was wrong with one of their "best students", my teachers would unanimously get angry at me.
@upshine3 I was the "pleasure to have in class" neurodivergent, except for those extremely rare moments when something would activate my justice sensitivity. Rather than check what was wrong with one of their "best students", my teachers would unanimously get angry at me.