alexis
@alexisrockley
alexis
creativity + art and
how to remember the things you read with annotation
TikTok - Make Your Day
tiktok.com"Consider how often you're upset with people because they didn't do their thinking with your brain. They did or said what came to their mind to do, and you're upset because they didn't do what came in your mind for them to do—which they can't. And why would they need their own, if all they had to do was use yours?"
@yo.fairy.godmama on TikTok
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
—Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy
acceptance and change
the text isn’t pass or fail, it’s evolve or repeat.
The terms shortsighted and inevitable are familiar; I would love to have longsighted as a term for the capacity to see patterns unfold over time, and maybe evitable as the opposite of inevitable.
Speaking of evitability, I've cherished unpredictability as the other face of possibility—if you already know what's going to happen, there's nothing more
action and
TikTok - Make Your Day
tiktok.competite romance - if grand gestures are story-making, then petite romance is story-telling. this kind of romance can be done with your friends, too!