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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
-Helen Keller
Overwhelmed with school and missing my newfound creative outlet already. I look at my calendar and feel a combination of awe (I've never been so organized in my life) and frustration (I've never been so busy in my life).
I've obviously taken on too much, but there's nothing I can do about it now. I just have to be optimistic, power through and learn how to do it better next time.
I've never really considered myself a creative person, but really, I hadn't really found an outlet. Writing has been my main outlet for most of my life, but I find myself driven to photograph now, as well as writing/journaling. I don't write in my physical journal as much, but I do write a lot (as you can see now). My point though, is after having a month and a half to find this new creative outlet, and using it pretty much every day, being consumed with it, I'm not so happy about having it taken away. Especially by classes that I see as a waste of my time (not all, but most of them).
Not to mention that I've been super critical of the few photos I have taken lately, and haven't posted some of them.
The result is feeling tired and frustrated.
In addition to that (yes, I'm complaining more), Joey is just as busy with his job and his bands. He's been amazingly wonderful and supportive, but I really miss seeing him as much as I used to. Yeah, we live together, but it's sad to me when our 'quality time' is the 20 minutes before sleep, and the 20 minutes we see each other in the morning before he's off to prep for whatever he's teaching that day. In the evenings, I have work or class, and he has rehearsal with his various musical projects. He's my best friend and I really just like having him around. He's just crazy enough to make me laugh when I'm in the sourest of moods.
So this is me now. Slightly unhappy, very overwhelmed, and trying my best to be optimistic.
On Monday, September 30 Ambassador Sondland welcomed guests to his rentrée event in Brussels. In his remarks he highlighted his optimism about the future of the transatlantic relationship.
Hal and Berni Hanson Regional Park
+ Jessie J (ENFJ) - Price Tag ft. B.o.B: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxX-QOV9tI&list=RD54-jKZ4Zdz...
+ Jessy (ESFP) [let’s add a little more discernment.] - Look At Me Now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVC5b0pw2LU&list=RDKVC5b0pw2L...
+ Jessy (ESFJ) - Look at Me Now - Official Belgian Version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDdBIW36dE&list=RD6sDdBIW36d...
+ Jennifer Lopez (ISFJ) - Love Don't Cost a Thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ZuGFrunoo&list=RDL5ZuGFruno...
+ Pentatonix - Heaven On Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=54-jKZ4ZdzA&list=RD54-jKZ4Zdz...
+ AQUA - Barbie Girl (Tiësto Remix): www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqBeHOc3K9o&list=RDXqBeHOc3K9...
Can you find beauty in pain? If you have no choice, but to be in pain. Is there something you can be grateful for? Is there beauty, even in darkness? If there’s a dark cloud over you, can we still be grateful for this moment; with all its darkness and the unknown.
You’re already on medications and taking active steps to better your physical health. If there’s going to be a dark cloud over you every day, we can start to embrace it. Instead of shunning it away or looking at it as something to be ashamed of. When you start mapping out your mood throughout the day, you’ll realize that you’re not sad all day. It’s up, down, and levels off. If we’re going to have a dark cloud over us each day, we’ll observe it and make it our friend. We won’t speak badly of it, it just is. We don’t have to be extremely happy and giddy people, at all points of time. This is how we are right now, and we’re ok with that.
Now, Barbie girl over there looks incredibly happy right? Right. So when you look over there at her life, and then you look at yours. You start feeling bad for yourself, like you’re the victim and get angry at that dark cloud, again. Which comes, every day; when it wants to. We can embrace it and make it our friend, or get angry at it again because we want to be just like Barbie girl and have what she has. She always looks so happy and has lots of friends. We start getting upset at ourselves and jealous of her, because we think we want what she has. Not knowing, that Barbie is not always that happy and also feels lonely. Even with all the people around her. The dark cloud hovers over her head too, she just treats it differently. So when you look over there, and everyones “happy,”“super excited,” and “having the time of their life.” Know that they experience similar emotions, as you.
Each of us are built differently, so one person may overcome their dark cloud quicker than another. Some may not even feel a dark cloud. But for us, it’s ok to be the way we are. We’re already doing our best. With the meds, breathing exercises, stretching, special diet, and Communication therapy. It’s ok if people don’t understand why we are, the way we are. We don’t have to force ourselves on others. The right people will circle around you and like you despite your dark cloud. You’ll find a group, where each of you can start talking about some of the reasons you feel the dark cloud appears. You’ll start to realize some similarities among your group, and learn that; sadness, pain, hurt, and anger are emotions like any other.
We celebrate optimism, happiness, health, excitement, and laughter; and look down on the other emotions, calling them bad and evil. But in reality, if you’re human; you will experience all these emotions. When you look at someone else’s highlight reel (ie. social media) and are sitting under a dark cloud, it’s easy to start feeling jealous of the other person and sorry for yourself.
I’d take long breaks from social media and stick to your work, watch a movie, listen to some music, play an instrument, play your favorite sport, quickly check your e-mails, read a book, take a nice walk, listen to the birds, call a friend, pet your dog/cat/snake. Sit with a warm cup of tea and look at the trees. Enjoy a beautiful sunset. Being grateful for everything you have and the life you’ve been given, which may be different than Barbies. But that’s ok, you don’t have to be Barbie and Barbie doesn’t have to be you. You may not fully understand eachother, but we can try. You both can live in this world, in peace.
+ communication therapy: www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=comm...
+ Aqua - Roses Are Red: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrgCGtMFeyU&list=RD6sDdBIW36d...
+ The Greatest Showman - This Is Me Lyric Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRyMoHJu-i8&list=RDIRyMoHJu-i...
+ Calvin Harris (ENFJ), Rihanna (INFJ) - This Is What You Came For: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkQ4T5WO9E&list=RDkOkQ4T5WO9...
+ Jordan Peterson (ENTP) vs 20 Atheists | Surrounded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwk5MPE_6zE
[Notes]
-spoiled
-gay
-stupid
-idiots
-dumb
-retarded
-annoying
-broke
-rude
-disrespectful
-fat
-skinny
-short
-tall
-ugly
-bad hair
-no hair
-ghost white
-too black
-bad sense of style
-smelly
-overwhelming
-hyperactive mind
-not cool
-loosers
-needy
-clingy
-loners
Anyways, see you all back at my Toronto house. Orgy Time!
Jordan Peterson (ENTP): a light meal will be served afterwards.
+ Kanye West (INFJ) - Clique ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z (INFP): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxr9XWogBQA&list=RDOxr9XWogBQ...
+ INNA (INFJ) x Sean Paul (INFJ) - Up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fl6d_fSRNs&list=RD8Fl6d_fSRN...
+ Locked Away – Justin Bieber (ESFP) • Sam Smith (ESFP) • Beyoncé (ESFJ)• Ellie Goulding (INFJ) • N. Minaj (ESFP): www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xNYHrpodk&list=RDy7xNYHrpod...
+ The Weeknd - Starboy ft. Daft Punk ft. Daft Punk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA&list=RDOxr9XWogBQ...
+ David Guetta (INFJ) – Family (feat. Bebe Rexha (INFP), Ty Dolla $ign & A Boogie Wit da Hoodie): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghMExvr6_ag&list=RD54-jKZ4Zdz...
+ ipod: www.google.com/search?client=safari&hs=ixY&sca_es...
+ ipod wired headphones: www.google.com/search?q=ipod+wired+headphones&client=...
+ fiji water: www.google.com/search?q=fiji+water&client=safari&...
+ mentos: www.google.com/search?q=mentos&client=safari&hs=1...
+ cliff snack bars: www.google.com/search?q=cliff+snack+bars%C2%A0&client...
+ pocky: www.google.com/search?q=pocky&client=safari&hs=2c...
+ smarties canadian candy: www.google.com/search?q=smarties+canadian+candy&clien...
+ purell clean and go wipes: www.google.com/search?q=purell+clean+and+go+hand+wipes&am...
Kim K.: please don’t forget to take a goody bag, on your way out.
+ B.o.B - Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU&list=RD54-jKZ4Zdz...
+ Conor Maynard (INFJ) - Ain't Got No Friends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqT9IUAbFzs&list=RD54-jKZ4Zdz...
+ Selena Gomez (INFJ) - Look At Her Now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-_64S7plI&list=RD8u-_64S7pl...
+ Era Istrefi (INFJ) - Bonbon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedoBlUvBlI&list=RDcedoBlUvBl...
+ Dougherty Dozen [INFJ Mom]: www.youtube.com/@DoughertyDozen/videos
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Juanita makes a case for optimism as she describes the success that the country has seen in the resolution of the conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC
Hemerocallis 'Optimism' 2014, Red Violet Daylily, hem-ur -oh-KAL-iss, 23" E-M D Re Fr Perennial (Wild-G., 1998),Z3, 5.4" red violet self , V2.z07
In want of a clear sky, in the bell tower on Mingfeng Hill, Kunming (Yunnan). The tower built in 1984 houses a 580-year-old copper bell which is three point 5 m high and 14 t bell.
My sister....she was really excited about something on this rainy, gloomy day. I can't quite figure out what, though.
Still looking at the brighter side.
Go for a fluorescent Bokeh! Bigger and brighter!!!
like an angel? :D
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean
I drew this one to remind myself that while optimism is a great perspective, one needs to take into account the reality of the situation at times. Sometimes, betting against the odds of 1 to 100, we take the leap anyway.
Problem is, that we're not designed to understand probability. We think that 1 in 100 represents a good chance of success. And see no difference between 1 in 10000 and 1 in 1000000.
I think the best balance is still, Thinking optimiscally and acting cynically, a very hard task. But hey, the best minds can hold two conflicting thoughts at once. Let's strive for that.