#adolescence

[vintage-tigre]

"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory."

— Louise Glück

#nostalgia #family #childhood #adolescence #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #style #beauty #kids #scooter #moto #70s style #70s aesthetic

[reasonsforhope]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot

#not news #life #advice #hope #adolescence #teens #adulthood #adulting #growing up #getting older #life advice #abuse mention #autonomy

[morepeachyogurt]

what is adolescence if not leaving and being left?

1. iain s. thomas | 2. alison zai @alisonzai | 3. @chloeinletters | 4. mikko harvey | 5. fleetwood mac | 6. the breakfast club (1985), john hughes | 7. lorde | 8. miranda july | 9. richard siken | 10. @mavra-matia | 11. homer | 12. amy hempel | 13. mitski | 14. katrin koenning | 15. freya ridings |

#high school as grief etc etc #web weaving #adolescence #leaving #parallels #quotes #words #on leaving #richard siken #mitski #lorde #freya ridings #the breakfast club #mikko harvey #fleetwood mac #iain thomas #mine <3 #1k

[ybon-paramoux]

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978) - Adolescence

#art #painting #adolescence #gerald brockhurst

[saionjeans]

im not a huge adolescencehead if im being honest but granted ive only seen it once. that said i love how utena literally turns into a car. they rly said “fuck subtlety utena is the vehicle for anthy’s revolution” and then they they hit akio’s already dead washed up cringefail ghost and he exploded into a cloud of roses and it ruled.

#adolescence #u #utena #anthy #akio #utenanthy #hits you with my car and hits you with my car and hits you

[veegodoi87]

"Helping girls to blossom and show their inner beauty, as well as coloring this ugly city a little. Just like and comment!" 🌸📱❤️

- C.B. (Cherry Blossom), Maya Aco Hindenburg

#silent hill #silent hill the short message #silent hill short message #the short message #cherry blossom #street art #mural #artistic expression #Game #social media #Adolescence #Likes #twitter #instagram

[fuckingwhateverdude]

october 10, 2022

#i have so many things to do every day #my writing #my writing tag #poetry #poetryblr #prose #poetry on tumblr #spilled ink #bipolar disorder #mental illness #adulthood #adolescence #coming of age #vent art

[the-overanalyst]

adolescence is just a pendulum that swings between longing for the past and longing for the future

#never staying in equilibrium #never fully satisfied #nostalgia #adolescence #nostalgic #childhood #sentimental #quotes #autumn #dark academia #teenagers #high school #coming of age

[dk-thrive]

Last night I dreamt that we were young again and loved each other fiercely with our bodies. It was in the midst of ruin even then, the roof collapsing in, dust and debris all around. Ah but we were fearless in the face of time.

— Moyra Donaldson, "Fearless" from her collection 'Carnivorous’ (Doire Press, January 1, 2019)

#Moyra Donaldson #dream #youth #memories #adolescence #time #fearless

[moami]

I don't know where I'll be in five years, or in ten. I thought I could predict life if I only tried hard enough; if I pushed into the tracks of my chosen path with all the force of my body, muscles tightening in anticipated soreness, to force a cart without wheels along the road I wanted to take. In my mind, I told myself that certainty was possible if I aligned the stars and synchronised the planets myself, whatever it took.

There's no road. None of us have a cart, either.

I cried about that for a long time. There's nothing I wanted more than knowing that what I did was surely correct. That with mathematical precision, my idea of a flawless outcome was achievable and I could chip it out of marble day by day, even if I saw nothing in the white stone.

In the end, we all just walk through the forest. The road we think we see is where light touches, or flowers grow, or water flows between the moss. Whatever draws you in becomes a path.

I don't know. That used to scare me. It still does, sometimes, when a new thing lands in the forest with a meteor-impact or a leaf crumbles from my oak tree.

There's no road. There's no cart. I don't know.

I just walk here and admire the sights.

#words #moamiswriting #prose #writing #original writing #authors on tumblr #quotes #life #youth #adolescence #20s #30s

[scramratz]

I have read hundreds of theories on what Revolutionary Girl Utena is about, and given the nature of the show, all of them are correct.

#it’s about… #adolescence #gender #lesbianism #comphet #SA #the fear of mortality #abusive dynamics #power dynamics #what it means to be an adult #the loss of innocence and how that relates to becoming an adult #breaking cycles of abuse and relinquishing control #what it means to be a good person #what it means to be a woman #womens role within the patriarchy #what it means to be special #that’s just off the top of my head

[sadexecutivelove]

the burden of a girl's teenage years

[somenteniki]

#aesthectic #messy layouts #dividers #fashion #dark icons #dark y2k #Rebelling #staying up late #freedom #adolescence #Black #grey #blue #purple #green #Youth #gloominess #beauty #coping with trauma #vintage

[jigo-ku]

girly room from 2007

#uploads #room #2000 room #y2k #flickr #inspo #adolescence

[saionjeans]

based on what we know of touga’s relationship to his own hair as established in the movie, that his adoptive father essentially forced him to grow it out as part of his sexual abuse, it is so fascinating to me how he casually violates utena in the coffin scene by carding his fingers through her hair while she is basically catatonic and in no state to resist. note that he later pulls the same move on her at ohtori and she impresses everyone around her by refusing to take his shit, asserting her boundaries. and then of course he tries it again once he has defeated her, and to signify her state of passive resignation, she allows him, doesn’t even flinch. during the coffin scene, saionji visibly recoils at touga’s action, the implicit violation of it, and implores touga to stop, just as during the scene in the cafeteria, touga’s similar display of smug male chauvinism that utena makes no attempt to resist makes wakaba apoplectic. this kind of creepy display of superiority is paradigmatic of why both wakaba and saionji loathe touga. they find his casual, almost plausibly deniable cruelty to be gutchurningly appalling. as do we, the audience.

but what does it mean that touga exhibits his dominance over utena by touching her hair? that when he first stumbles across a child who, like him, has no hope in a survivable future, has completely given up her soul to a state of nihilist despair, his first instinct is so assert his control over her. unlike him, she is naive, still believes in the illusory promise of the family and its pure, unconditional love, and that is the source of her pain. she has been disillusioned only by something as abstract and inevitable as mortality, but has yet to bear witness to the pain and human suffering that can be caused not by external circumstances, but by other humans. and so touga, in his own state of nihilist despair, nonetheless has power over her through a knowledge she is not yet privy to. his whole life has been an exercise in internalizing the logic of exploitation, of replicating his own abuse through facilitating cycles of violence (the carousel, the ferris wheel, the spinning rose pinned in place upon the frame). and what does touga do, when faced with someone like him, a fellow victim? he does everything in his power to exploit her. and he violates her boundaries by reaching for her hair.

#u #analysis #manalysis #touga #utena #saionji #wakaba #adolescence #ok this was basically the only fever dream fueled piece of analysis that i can actually remember that was also coherent #I should . go back to sleep now

[swankyangles]

Look at this hand finished relic I saw at an estate sale today

#pc #90's #00's #beige #crt #monitor #adolescence #computer #retro #aesthetic