on your 20s
by réka · updated 16d ago
on your 20s
Being embarrassed is a choice
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- Swiss psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz called the "provisional life." ("There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that... [but] there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about.")
from What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman by Oliver Burkeman
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- Hello Body! I am home. I'll take care of you.
from How do I love myself? | Thich Nhat Hanh answers questions by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Paige Bea on TikTok
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feeling lost in your 20s
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- Advice for those in their 20s: “ten years from now, you need to be able to say that this is the life you chose, not one you settled for.” A future that is created intentionally is more pleasant than one that is scrapped together by avoidance-driven choices.
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- We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.
While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See morefrom ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy by Bride Jabour
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
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