hey. don’t cry. crush three cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in pasta of your choice ok?
No amount of “why aren’t you feeling better already?!” Is actually going to make you feel better faster. Be compassionate to yourself and focus on doing what you need, with less focus on time and less beating yourself up. If you magically could feel much better with a snap of two fingers, you would do that, but you cannot, and no amount of beating yourself up will change that. Plus, it’s really not fun to do everything you can to get better, while you have someone going “Not fast enough”, and that is what you are doing to yourself. You need to be your own friend, and support yourself. Sure, you are not moving as fast as you want, but you are moving, and that is worth celebrating. 🌸
I don’t miss scrolling through tiktok. My mind is wonderfully blank. I have no idea what’s going on over there. I’m playing so much more minecraft and dancing alone in my room much more often.
If you have been looking for an excuse to take a break from tiktok that’s the only reason you need to do it. If you’re looking for a way out, it’s probably hurting you more than it’s helping you.
I mean it. Tiktok is designed to make you fall down the endless void of content. If you are especially susceptible to that kind of algorithm you might end up feeling trapped inside of it. If you feel like that you’re not crazy. Have you been looking for permission to get out? Here’s me telling you that if you want to get out then you can and should. Your brain will heal.
i deleted tiktok when i first saw this post and my brain really is healing like… i don’t constantly have stupid sounds/songs stuck in my head all the time and i have more time for things i actually want to do instead of being caught in the loop that is tiktok. i’ve read like 4 books since deleting it and it’s only been a couple of weeks… i haven’t done that in MONTHS. delete tiktok rn pls it will only make ur life better
Plus I’ve knocked the amount of jumpscares, squicks, and triggering content to me down several pegs since I deleted tiktok
did zillennials seriously spend their youth making OC fanart on devart and livejournal and being told “oh look, they finally emerge” by their parents whenever they risked leaving their room only to turn around 10 years later and say “ewwwh you spent hours cosplaying an OC & learning a viral dance in your bedroom? fuckin cringe”
not 2 be controversial on main but i think it’s pretty sad the first major generation to grow up online is projecting their adolescent self-hatred onto the “cringe” generation of tiktokkers
like….. did we truly lose sight so quickly of how it was to feel young and disconnected and desperate for someone, anyone, to really listen to you? to feel close to you? how quickly have we become jaded to the joys of carefully, earnestly crafting something alone in a dark bedroom and sharing it with the world, hoping for just one other person to say “that’s how i feel, too”? how much must we hate our younger selves in order to blame the teenagers of the world for creating costumes and dances and dreams for themselves???
