Your identity is just a collection of habits. Habits of thought. Habits of emotion. Habits of action. None of them are permanent. None of them are you. They are just patterns you've repeated. And patterns can be broken. Identity can be rebuilt.
Decentering men is the best thing you can do, ladies.
Remember, “Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him."
Ladies, imagine someone doing your cooking, cleaning, running errands & endless invisible domestic labor. Imagine how much TIME that would free up for your career and hobbies. For the average male, that IS their reality. Then they turn around and claim women "contribute nothing."
there is nothing more attractive and more powerful than someone remembering who they are again. seeing them swim in their true essence after an extended time stuck at shore. seeing then return to themselves of old, but dealing with waves differently now.
Can RSS ever be defeated? Studying their history and influence on the contemporary Indian culture is so fucking depressing.
It’s like they learnt from the failures of Nazis and the Republican Fascist Party to perfect their structure and create an invulnerable malevolent machine
one of the biggest signs your self concept is evolving is that you stop taking everything personally. someone else’s mood doesn’t automatically become your responsibility, a delayed response doesn’t instantly become proof you’re unwanted. you stop treating life like it’s happening against you. your mind isn’t constantly trying to make every event mean something about your worth.
This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:
"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."