You ARE your social identity, and you're never fully built! Actualization is a cycle, not an end goal. The right people/places let you share without thinking. True comfortability comes with no need for analysis. It just is! Express yourself in spaces that value you as a person, not a character.
General rule of thumb though: you're going to die whether you speak or not. Which choice brings you the most peace?
Jan 27, 2025
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Eventually you'll die inwardly if you don't speak up
Best to be most publicly authentic version of yourself now and face the blowback that comes — you'll be freer and live a more joyful life
Jan 27, 2025
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Know that just like you, people yearn for connection- I know everyone probably hears this too often but be you; be weird, be honest, have no filter. The people who are suited to you when you’re this version of yourself will find you.
People probably don’t think about you as much as you think, think about a random person right now for example: what was the last embarrassing thing they did that comes to your mind? Exactly. You fixate too much on yourself, the way you interact, the way you are perceived that it ruins your “unfilteredness”. Turn off your brain, compliment the first person you see that you think looks good, ask if you can be friends. do whatever.
The world is truly your oyster.
May 26, 2025
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Who are you when you aren’t acting the way your friends expect you to? Free from that possibly subconscious pressure what do you do? You can’t exist in a vacuum because we are human beings and socially conditioned (not always a bad thing!) but you can get close when you change up your situation. Observe yourself closely.. where is the divergence between what you think of yourself and what you actually do? Would you have done the same thing in front of your friends? Your parents? Personally I am wildly different with my family, friends, and alone. I like the solo version of myself the best, so I try to spend as much time with him as possible.
This isn’t to say that who you are with others isn’t who you are, that’s an important part of you too!! But if you’re looking to understand yourself as an individual then you need to understand as many aspects as you can. Most people do not do activities alone so I think it is a great place to start.
May 10, 2025
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Ok guys I gotta be honest. I'm all for supporting creatives and rightfully paying people for the art that they create, but sometimes I wanna watch a 30 year old movie and I don't wanna pay the 19-whatever-the-fuck Netflix is taxing.
Take my advice. Get Brave. It's like google chrome on steroids. Go to a site like Brocoflix (i kid you not lmao) and let your heart run wild. Brave's adblocker is insane. Gone are the days of closing 30 porn pop-ups just to watch Sonic. It's game-changing
Jan 28, 2025
Got super inspired from a post i saw on here today from georgie!!
Dude had a sick personal website and made me wanna give it a try myself. Decided i'd start with some basic html and see what i could come up with. The website is linked!
Used Neocities for hosting and Brackets for the HTML <3
Jan 28, 2025
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I'm sure there's an actual name for this but I'm blanking on it at the moment. I try to live under the idea that we're all one being. That in everybody is a piece of me, and in me a piece of everyone else.
I guess it's like an extrapolation of 'the golden rule'. But I think to myself like, if I was being ignorant, I'd want someone to have a conversation with me and help me understand where I was wrong. If I was having a bad day and was visibly frustrated in line, I'd want to have someone stop and ask me how I was doing.
I think most negative people are just hurt. The longer you go without talking about what's bothering you, the more bitter you get. Most people, no matter how they're acting, change when you ask them if they're ok. Most of the time (I'll admit, there's some exceptions lol) its better to be sympathetic rather than defensive.
It's easy to get heated but it takes a lot of patience to really try to understand. Stranger or not, I do my best to help rather than provoke. We've all got our bad days, but that doesn't mean we aren't deserving of compassion.
Jan 28, 2025