a girl on tiktok said “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace." and it hits me hard.
i'm in love with this quote:
"if you're persistent, you'll get it. if you're consistent, you'll keep it. and if you're grateful, you'll attract more of it."
‘Melissophobia’ is a fear of bees.
‘Mel’ is Latin for “honey.”
The name, ‘Melissa,’ comes from the Greek word for “honeybee.”
In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who fed the infant Zeus honey instead of milk. Later, the gods turned her into a bee (spoiler alert).
We hope this post about orphaned negatives makes you gruntled.
An ‘orphaned negative’ is a word that SHOULD feel like it has a related word, but doesn’t.
‘Nonchalant’ is an orphaned negative because there is no ‘chalant.’
If a pregnant woman is carrying a female fetus, she is literally carrying the eggs that could one day become her own grandchildren.
The female fetus develops all her lifetime supply of eggs while still in the womb. So three generations coexist inside one body at that moment.