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i know this is kind of a polarizing compliment to receive for some people but it's my personal favorite. I'm chill with the "you look healthier", "you look beautiful", etc etc but being told i look happier actually makes my whole week. this might just be a commonality among people in remission from mental health disorders but it feels so affirming. i like to think that when I'm happy, i radiate it from my smile, my eyes, and my skin. when I'm actually having a good day i can feel my joy touch the people around me and i can see it everywhere i go. i love being told i look happier because i really did previously radiate despair and anxiety. your emotions are laid out plainly in your expressions, the way you move, and even in your eyes. i don't believe in the whole "aura" thing but i think that might be the only comparison that makes sense in this context. i battled with my mental health since i was a toddler. I've been in therapy for 9 years and have been in active, intensive recovery for 5. i was in and out of the hospital and treatment facilities through all 4 years of high school. I've been unhappy for most of my life and it reflected easily in the way i carried myself and even the people i surrounded myself with. i look at pictures of myself when i was in high school, at my very lowest, and i can see the grief in my own eyes. now that I'm in college and am in remission for borderline personality disorder, i have begun to forge my own hopes, dreams, and sense of identity. it's a feeling that can't really be compared to anything but freedom. and when i look at pictures of myself now, i can see the warmth and hope in my eyes and the joy in my smile. people have told me i glow, but I've also been told i look happier. i ran into one of my high school counselors a while back on my college campus because he was there for an alumni event. he smiled at me and told me i looked happier, and i gave him a smile back. there was a consensus there that we reached, and i felt like we both understood the massive weight that was lifted off of my shoulders when i heard that compliment. it's a mutual understanding that despite everything, and even though he has no idea exactly what I've done to get here, he can sense a great shift in me that speaks much louder than words. i hold every one of those compliments very, very close to my heart.
Apr 18, 2025
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✨The most heavenly feeling of being given a genuine and unique compliment, some of my faves:
1- "You have SWAGGER." - Teen boy outside a grocery store accepting donations 4 cancer research
2- "Yo! That's a sick jacket!" - 2 men in the shittiest most beautiful antique truck I've ever seen
3 - "You seem like you can get back up from anything, like nothing can truly hurt you" - my cousin who's like me but funnier
I'll keep coming back to this when I feel down 🌠💫
1- "You have SWAGGER." - Teen boy outside a grocery store accepting donations 4 cancer research
2- "Yo! That's a sick jacket!" - 2 men in the shittiest most beautiful antique truck I've ever seen
3 - "You seem like you can get back up from anything, like nothing can truly hurt you" - my cousin who's like me but funnier
I'll keep coming back to this when I feel down 🌠💫
Jul 3, 2025
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🌱there Was this one girl my first semester of college who told me I was the most mentally well person she knew and I feel good about that
Jul 14, 2025
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🥹i was so so sad at work yesterday and i guess my coworker heard it in my voice and then asked me to share the highlight of my day (but phrased it in a way that his day was so mid that he wanted to hear some good news) and i didnt rly have anything much so i said how i made myself a sandwich for lunch and i usually dont eat properly so it made me happy. and then him and my other coworker just got super excited about it and asked for all the details and even when i was like its only a veggie sandwich nothing special they hyped it up and it rly made me feel important. i still felt down for the rest of that shift bc i was in my own head but at least in that moment they really made me feel better and i was grateful for their efforts.
May 27, 2025
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🍵avid peppermint tea fan. i operate on a nervous stomach and overactive nervous system - peppermint tea is my saving grace basically. however trader joes put out "candy cane" peppermint tea bags that are seasonal only so i can't find them anymore :( other brands just sort of taste medicinal. not that that's a problem for me since i don't drink it so much for flavor but i actually liked the taste of their packets. i used my last one today. rip. good drink tho
UPDATE I HAVE ANOTHER PACK !! WOO HOO
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🌇i'm in community college rn, i had a rough time in high school so i figured id do two catchup/gen ed years before finishing up my degree at a 4 year. we all know its college app season/college result season and oh my god guys i keep seeing these high schoolers shooting for 8% acceptance rate universities and not settling for anything less. like i get it, i do. but am i the only one whos seeing an uptick of kids just applying places just to say they got in ? i feel like i ask a lot of these people about what they want to do/what they're passionate about and why they're majoring in what they're majoring in and they just give me a blank stare. can we PLEASE normalize saving money and taking your time ? you have the rest of your life to work and be miserable paying taxes and pulling your weight at a 9-5. there's literally no shame in community, and I'm so sick and tired of people thinking there is. if you don't know what you want to do, you're allowed to take the time to get there. it's honestly worse to settle on a mediocre major that you don't particularly like just to get your degree faster and say you graduated on time. high school really doesn't give you the time to decide these things so once you reach adulthood it's your responsibility to allocate your time towards it. i really want to see more kids soul searching in a meaningful and responsible way. and if you know what you wanna do and you got into your 8% acceptance rate dream school, more power to you. I'm just saying that seeing a case like that is rare these days and people deserve the time to think and absorb their new responsibilities.
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💠got my upper lobes pierced today - so far it's a total of 6 piercings. on the left ear i have two lobe piercings and a double helix, and on the right is just the two lobes. i plan to get another double helix on the right side to match the left when the first set heals. that'll be 8 total - then I'm thinking either my conch, a third helix, or a third upper lobe. not 100% sure which one it'll be, i guess ill have to see but I'm kind of leaning towards the upper lobe or conch because it just looks nicer. people fed helix propaganda to me before i got my double done, but tbh the healing process so far has been smooth, pain-free and forgettable (got them done 2 months ago). however my piercer today decided to check on my double helix and clean it which meant he had to take the jewelry out. let me tell u that was some of the worst pain I've ever experienced in a piercing shop. i forget that a piercing is literally just an open wound until it fully heals but that shit hurt like a dirty bitch. but now it's ok just a bit sore even tho it was stinging for about 30 minutes after he put the jewelry back in. apparently this is normal and fine and I'll still go back in a month from now to get it downsized which i predict will probably hurt like a bitch again. but for now I'm chilling. i do have beef with my lobes tho. not the upper lobes i just got, the og lobes. i got my lobes pierced when i was around 9 years old so it's been quite a while. obv as a nine year old girl i got my ears pierced at claire's because nobody back then knew piercing guns basically inflict blunt force trauma on people's earlobes. mine got infected pretty bad once but have been completely fine since. except when i got my double helix done two months ago i expanded my jewelry horizons and decided to look into getting clicker hoops for my lobes because it would look cute. i went and bought high-quality titanium clickers from a piercing shop and shoved them in my ear - they hated it. for a week they were inflamed, oozing, and so freaking itchy. after a few more days my right side got used to it and i took them out. my left side developed an irritation bump (first ever time this has happened to me !!) and i couldn't put any jewelry back in it for about two weeks. it took a while of inserting for a week, taking out for another week, etc etc so they could get used to it but rn I'm wearing a full set of jewelry so i guess its ok. but my left lobe is royally fucked up. like claires genuinely did something very wrong, any jewelry i use regardless of if its a hoop, a ring, or a stud cannot find the end of the piercing hole for whatever reason. might consider getting it repierced. but for now I'm gonna wait till my double helix and upper lobes heal cause it looks meta as hell. cant wait to have that pierced up baddie reputation.