Because what’s the point in them being happy now if you know they’re going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.
| I learned that from the Pizza man |
| We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are |
|900 years of time and space, and I have never met anyone who was not important|
@ girls stop apologizing for your appearance. “sorry I’m not wearing make up today”, “sorry my hair is a mess” like who cares if you go out looking like a gremlin you don’t have to be pretty 24/7 and you don’t have to apologize for not putting effort into your appearance yall are still valid
interrogation scene in a movey where the guy refuses to cooperate and he’s like “fuck you” and spits blood and the people interrogating him are like “what the fuck. nobody’s even hit you yet. where did you get all that blood from”
When you’re a kid, one teacher walking into another teacher’s classroom is the biggest crossover event reality has to offer
my physics and english teacher hated each other and the physics teacher made a habit of getting grades back to students as quickly as possible and one day he just walked into her classroom and started handing back tests while she was trying to lecture
bruce, a science nerd, sniffling: it’s kinda stupid but the mars rover oppy got dust on its solar panels and it might be damaged and nasa declared it dead :(
thor, also a science nerd, mentally calculating how long it takes to get to mars: I’ll be back
I have been a huge fan of Marie Kondo since her book first launched. And trust me, I binge watched her new show in an evening. However I often see people talk about how they couldn’t do it because they aren’t fans of minimalism (even my own sister said that) which blows my mind because I am far from a minimalist!
Here’s where I feel a lot of people get her ideas wrong. Because it’s not about throwing out everything and embracing a minimalist life style. It’s about only keeping things you enjoy. If having a bookcase full of books you love sparks joy great! A stack of magazines in a box in your basement isn’t doing the same for you. Keeping a dozen ugly oversized t-shirts isn’t bring joy to your life, they should go. Loving funky printed socks and having a drawer full on the other hand might spark joy in you so keep those.
This is why I actually recommend people read her second book “Spark Joy” before actually reading her first book. She breaks down the idea behind keeping only things that spark joy, and even explains what she means by that. I often see people ask “how can a can opener bring joy? Or a toilet plunger? How about my recycling can??” and as she explains it, you are thankful to have these things when needed, so indeed they spark joy.
Konmari isn’t about tossing over everything and living minimalistic, it’s about making sure you surround yourself with things you love so you can care more deeply (and in turn take care of them) it’s about being aware of what we have in our homes, and maybe becoming more aware of what we bring into them. It’s about envisioning the home you want and working positively towards that goal. If for you it is a simple and sparse home wonderful, but if not konmari is still for you. 😊
I genuinely think so much of the aggro and angsty thoughtpieces not only are illiterate in animist worldviews or worldviews that have a strong sense of ‘everything has a spirit’ like Shintoism, they’re too comfortable with dismissing it as woo when she was literally a shrine maiden.
“There are three facets to the spirit that dwells in material things: the spirit of the materials from which the things are made, the spirit of the person who made them, and the spirit of the person who uses them.” – Marie Kondo, ‘Spark Joy’
