theproductofdesire

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

Does anyone else remember growing up being told the hottest time of the day was 11am-3pm but if you look at the weather this week the highest temps are around 4pm-5pm. I feel like global warming is the blame but I don’t know the science enough to elaborate

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@hradzka So counting sheep works

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@PriyaSatia I studied fine art in 2015 and received a 1st. I learnt problem solving, critical thinking, resilience (having to hear critical feedback against my own work) history, confidence, people skills (asking for funding) event management (creating fundraisers) all of which apply to life

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@nickimoraa I on the touched my cousins pregnant belly when they were kicking, felt an actual human foot hit my hand, through her stomach, no thank you

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@saint_cloudy This is what my vision does when I’m high trying to focus on the person talking

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@FirstBusUK why is it wells station can’t have electronic screens for bus times and why can you not update the app for cancelled busses. And why are you cancelling busses in the first place? Leaving workers in a constant state of anxiety of whether they will be on time. Do better

[Kierra | Data Conversationalist🎙 @iamKierraD]

This is so cool and informative. It’s been a while since I’ve tested how fast I can read.

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

You know you’re in the countryside when you can see your breath on the public transport

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@ArgyleBecky My apartment uses an electric key and only have electric oil heaters, proper old school. We only use the heating at night for a couple hours and in a few days we spent £50 being as frugal as possible. On a two income household we are STRUGGLING. We are well educated and well paid

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

The commute

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

It sounds funny until you realize that is a whole life philosophy in one sentence. You sit there with your giant emotional Stanley cup, refilling it all day, proud of yourself. You drink your 2 liters, 3 liters, you count your bottles like a good kid ticking boxes. On paper, you are doing everything right. And still your tongue feels like paper, your skin looks tired, your head hurts behind the eyes at 16:40, and you are one minor inconvenience away from wanting to lie face down on the floor. You keep thinking the answer is more of the same water.

Nobody tells you that sometimes you are not lacking volume. You are lacking minerals. You are lacking anything with weight.

Electrolytes sound like a gym word, but really they are just proof that the body does not run on purity. It runs on salt and mess and tiny charged things that hold the water in place. Think about how different it feels when you drink a glass of cold orange juice at 09:12 after a bad night of sleep compared to your fourth bottle of plain water at your desk. One hits like “oh, I exist again.” The other just runs straight through you, and twenty minutes later you are in the bathroom wondering why your organs still feel like dry towels.

A lot of people live like that. Drowning in content, in advice, in “healthy habits,” and still emotionally dehydrated. They scroll for three hours consuming wellness tips in bed, wake up at 7, drink water, do their 10 minutes of journaling, take 8000 steps before dinner, and still feel this static emptiness in their chest. They think, weird, maybe I need another habit tracker.

No one explained that habits are just water. Minerals are something else.

Minerals are the things that actually carry charge through your life. The phone call where you finally say what hurt you instead of being “chill” again. The ugly 23:37 breakdown in the shower where you admit you are not “fine, just tired,” you are lonely and scared you wasted three years on the wrong thing. The bowl of pasta you let yourself eat slowly without scrolling while your brain keeps trying to sprint ahead to the next problem and you keep dragging it back to the plate. The real rest day that is not secretly a productivity cosplay.

Of course plain water feels safer. It is neutral. It does not wake anything up. Electrolytes sting a little on the way in. Salt on a cracked lip, sugar in a starved system. Orange juice tastes so sweet after dehydration it almost hurts. It reminds your body of how long you have been ignoring it.

Same with life. You can drink twenty self help books and still be dehydrated if you never put in one real mineral: a boundary, a no, a goodbye, a yes that you actually want, not one that sounds impressive on Instagram. You can go to therapy and carefully avoid saying the one sentence that would actually change your blood pressure. You can talk about burnout like it is a scheduling issue instead of the fact that you do not believe you are allowed to be a human being who stops.

Everyone loves the aesthetic of “clean water.” No one posts “I added salt because my nervous system is fried from 10 years of people pleasing and pretending I’m chill with everything.” But that is what actually fixes things.

Sometimes the reason you feel so tired is not that you are underperforming. It is that everything you pour into yourself is frictionless. It does not cling to you. It does not bind. It slides right through and leaves you pee-clear and soul-empty.

The body tries to tell you. The headache at 17:23 that hits in the supermarket lighting. The way your vision gets grainy when you stand up too fast. The random heart flutters when you lie down, like your chest forgot its script. You drink more water, thinking you are being good, when what you need is to eat actual food, sprinkle some salt, sit down for fifteen minutes without being “useful.”

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@kirawontmiss Most human looking cat ever

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

i don’t know how to prove it but he can talk 100%

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@no_irls_allowed Anything by sigur ros

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@adellinamoon @lottierexic I found some pretty similar products from Tesco in the UK that are around 220cals per pack

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@charlottexou 🍎

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@moderatecals As someone who is currently studying to become a therapist, EDs are 1 of the most complex mental health issues to ‘cure’. Most successful therapy with EDs is group therapy, creating a sense of community and replicating healthy relationships, not necessarily ‘curing past traumas’

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

@FirstBusUK
Why do you always cancel or just have no show busses late at night when that’s the most vulnerable time for people to be left having to wonder the streets? In a city like Bristol I expect better and demand better from your services nerve wracking unreliability.

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

So doing safeguarding training for one of my jobs and radicalisation is a form of abuse- indicating anyone who influences anyone under the age of 18 to ‘extreme’ views is breaking the law… Watching the rise of the far right this is very interesting understanding this knowledge.

[theproductofdesire @ylimee22]

Oven cooked honey gochugang chicken, garlic ginger leeks celery red pepper fried rice, teriyaki fried broccoli mangetout kale and mushrooms with veggie gyozas with a glass of red, I’m aware my gyozas are over done - multitasking isn’t my best when it comes to cooking -