Everything is Ugly

...but it doesn't have to be
opting out of enshittification, one choice at a time
writing about quality, beauty, and the intentional work of living better

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@dickiebush This is so true - even just quickly jotting down your top 3 priorities for the day will have you accomplishing/enjoying more than you thought possible

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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

-John Ruskin

I wholeheartedly disagree with this. The most beautiful things in the world are actually imperative to support living a life worth experiencing.

Often the most beautiful things aren’t even things - they’re the small routines that set the foundation for a wonderful day.

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@obvizz Curiosity will open more doors than you could ever begin to imagine

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❤️

[Imeene @EboshixSen]

@DylanoA4 Kierkegaard core

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Attention and beauty are the same dilemma.

-You cannot notice what's beautiful in your life if your nervous system is treating the whole day and everything in it as a threat

-You cannot be moved by small things if your attention has been sold, in small increments, to whatever is trendiest at that small point in time

The across savoring the morning quiet, the regulated nervous system, the phone off the nightstand is really about recovering the capacity to receive beauty.

Not as a luxury, but as the baseline

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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

-Keats

When you focus your attention on finding what's beautiful in the world around you, it never fades, it only grows. Inversely, if your attention falls outside of it, you'll never be able fully notice it.

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"Beauty will save the world."
- Dostoevsky.

He didn't mean decoration, he meant the capacity to perceive and be moved by what's real, true, and worth keeping alive.

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@ifckingluvmango The lynx coat and marabou jacket!!!! 😍

[𝓝 @NorthAuthority]

I’ve killed many versions of myself to be this calm.

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@inverily A short answer: no.

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For my weekend warriors:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“In the short term, you are as good as your intensity.

In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.”

— Shane Parrish

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@latkedelrey I've circled back to really enjoying veggie burgers. So many of the alternatives have such a strange aftertaste no matter what you do to them!

...but the impossible hot dogs? I'm fully on board with those

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@micheal_al14364 @AdenikeOmolar11 just listening to everything around you and paying attention to your breath. watching the clouds go by and listening to the water alone will have you in a meditative state in no time :)

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"Beauty awakens the soul to act."
- Dante.

Not just to feel.
To act, to do something.

Beauty isn't passive.
It's the thing that truly moves you.

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@jsparkblog I have my thoughts, I do my best to keep it together outwardly. It's really challenging some days, hopefully I can always keep it together 😅

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@kitten_beloved They have the most egregious lack in accurately predicting the time you will spend doing *anything* 😫

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Friday reminder:

[Uchenna. @Favour_Ogazi]

At some point, you have to let yourself be witnessed - in the work, in the mistakes, in the becoming. You have to survive being wrong without disappearing. You have to let people ask you the difficult questions and resist the instinct to run when the answers embarrass you.

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@Toribabieegirl so we're all just living the same life then? 😅

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@manwellperkins perfect, thank you for the support

(I cried this morning on my walk because it smelled so nice outside 😂)