#on joy

[akindplace]

2023:

Even the smallest joy matters, even if it doesn’t last. Life is supposed to be enjoyed and it is not morally reprehensible to do so.

Your health matters more than any material thing you sacrifice it for.

Life is not supposed to be made of sacrifices.

Your dreams are not too big “for someone like you”. You are not too small to dream big.

Everything is temporary. Use the time you have to love and be loved, to enjoy this life a little, to create the relationships you seek, the safe home you need.

Community is what kept us evolving. The human thing is to ask for help.

Perfectionism is the enemy if you want to get things done. Progression above perfection, always. You don’t have to be so anxious to prove your worth, you are already enough. You can do this.

Guilt and shame are common emotions to us all, but they should not dictate your whole life.

#original writing #2023 #on joy #on life #on being human #self-acceptance #self-worth #perfectionism #reminder #reassurance

[judas-redeemed]

the joy of being known

true blue - boygenius >> milsae >> presumably dead arm - sidney gish >> a bookmark near the end - julia nicole camp >> tumblr user @bananaanna1 >> tumblr user gayassnatural (old url)

#on love #intimacy in the mundane #web weaving #judas talks #web weaves #web weave #poetry #art #love poems #on joy #boygenius #lucy dacus #julien baker #phoebe bridgers #sidney gish #presumably dead arm by sidney gish #julia nicole camp

[snailsnfriends]

WHAT A GLORIOUS FEELING, I'M HAPPY AGAIN! - on finding the joy in life

why i wake early (mary oliver) / the lego movie (dir. phil lord, christopher miller) / don't let the good life pass you by (cass elliot) / forest (justine kurland) / gate a-4 (naomi shihab nye) / derry girls (lisa mcgee) / walking on sunshine (katrina and the waves) / the perks of being a wallflower (dir. stephen chbosky) / norwegian wood (haruki murakami) / singin in the rain (dir. gene kelly, stanley donen) / (@/inkskinned) / water for the people (paul d'amato)

#web weaving #mary oliver #the lego movie #cass elliot #justine kurland #naomi shihab nye #derry girls #the perks of being a wallflower #haruki murakami #singin in the rain #paul d'amato #on happiness #on joy #on living #on humanity #on love #I LOVE BEING ALIVE I LOVE BEING ALIVE I LOVE BEING ALIVEEEEEEEEE #this is incredibly self indulgent as all things should be #snailtrail.weaves

[shycryn]

on finding light after the dark

catt on pinterest/ quote from kurt vonnegut/ petrichara on tumblr / leo berne / peter brown; christmas, combe park / comment by priyasharmax on youtube / quote from albert camus/ comment by curiouscam on youtube / mitski; my love mine all mine / boymiffy on tumblr / wendy cope; the orange

#web weaving #webs #aesthetic #writing #photography #web weave #comparatives #on hope #on joy #web weaving blogs who credit everyone are god's greatest soldiers... respect #mitski #that curiouscam comment changed my whole life... i swear i swear

[beemintty]

if joy doesn't find you, go and find joy yourself!

#thoughts #on life #my thoughts #poetry #on joy #joy #<3 #i was talking to a friend today and they decided to open up to me #he said sometimes im just like melancholy and sad #nothing makes me happy and dont feel love #hes feeling a bit hopeless #so i told him if happiness isn't coming go out and find it #stay alive my friend i love you and would be sad without you here #maybe its not the right words but he looked like he needed someone to remind him that hes got someone in his corner #so for anyone else that needs this #you dont know me but im in your corner #stay alive my friend #stay alive #joy is just around the corner if you choose to look for it

[archivoautista]

Joy in Funerals: Ghana and Egypt

 

In Ghana, a funeral procession follows the familiar steps we know, the mourning around the casket, the walk to the final resting place, the burial in a cemetery, except that their dead are buried in colorful coffins shaped like crabs, cars, unicorns, dinosaurs, fishes, airplanes, cows, shoes. These are custom, fantastic, or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai in its language), also sometimes called “FAVs” (fantastic afterlife vehicles). (Which is just, honestly epic, I could not come up with a greater name).

The desire for a colorful burial is not such a foreign one, you can imagine a kid enamored with dinosaurs, who would want nothing more than to be buried in a fucking Plateosaurus! Even people have got to admit, it would be nice to be buried in a coffin with, y’know, at least a floral pattern, maybe some ancient runes, for a history nerd. A coffin upholstered to look like the night sky! Even better, a coffin engraved to look like Van Goghs’ Starry Night. You know art kids would eat those up. They would sell like hot bread. It’s like Sylvia Plath once said: 

 But going back to the kid, there actually exists a very famous example of a person buried with a child’s Joy. Tutankhamun was the pharaoh's son, as a child, he was disabled, walked differently to others, and needed “orthopedic” footwear, which, relatable. And he had a huge love for ducks. People gifted him tunics with duck embroidered on it. He wore duck sandals, earrings decorated with ducks. He had toy ducks. When he died, aged 18 or 19, he was buried with all his duck memorabilia, in a chest, engraved with ducks, and a mummified duck, as well.

And what is that but a morsel of Joy to be enjoyed after death? by the dead and the mourners. 

This all reminds me of a poem written by Juan Gelman

A bird lived in me. 

A flower traveled in my blood. 

My heart was a violin. 

I loved and didn’t love. 

But sometimes I was loved.

I also was happy: about the spring, the hands together, what is happy.

I say man has to be!

Herein lies a bird, a flower, a violin.

I find it comforting to know that through all human existence people feel the palpable importance of burying somebody with a bird, a flower, and a violin.

This is all a very wayward way of saying that I would like to be buried with my calavera cup.

#anthropology #ancient history #antropología #ghana #ancient egypt #poetry #on death #on joy #archaeology

[catmint1]

To allow the joy to come front and center in your life, you also have to feel your emotions, even the sad ones. You have to mourn, let the tears pour out. If you bottle the sadness in, the joy gets bottled right along with it.

Ruth Westheimer, The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre

#quotes #ruth westheimer #the doctor is in #on love #on life #joie de vivre #on joy #emotions #text

[skywise-earthloved]

Happiness is a state of being

Joy is a perspective

#on joy

[spooksier]

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

#text! #idk the trend of twt artists pretending to be stealing their own art to get engagement rly broke my heart #like nooo!!! the joy of art is in the making!!!!! its not in the reaction!!

[cemeterything]

"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

#🐉 #sometimes its all i have. dont take my only joy from me.

[akindplace]

the fact that life keeps going when you’re going through something unbearable feels so terribly unfair. it feels like the world won’t stop moving so fast when all you wanted was for it to stop until you catch your breath, but that’s just not possible.

there is infinite sadness and grief in loss and a memory might be enough to bring your mind back through years, but not being able to physically go back is sickening.

and i am still grieving all that i lost, and sometimes i am so exhausted i feel the need to be quiet, and i wish the whole world could go slower. but it’s a good thing that life goes on. i got to go on. it took a lot of effort to move on, but i am here, alive. i am here! i don’t think i ever truly believed i would get here. some things don’t hurt as much anymore. the world kept moving and it forced me to move with it. it forced me to face a lot of what caused me so much pain. the grief will always be here, but so will be this proud feeling of having survived, the feeling of happiness, joy, laughter, and relief.

time doesn’t heal all things. but it brings news types of joy too.

#on joy #on time #on being human #on nostalgia #on longing #on survival #original writing #self-compassion #me #on my life

[crabussy]

hey. don’t cry. crush four 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 and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and pasta of your choice ok?

#ITS MY FAVOURITE PASTA RECIPE #tastes so so good and delicious and hearty and warm #doesn’t require many ingredients or effort and is so yummy #I have sensory issues and digestive disorders and this recipe brings me so much joy #barely anything to remember!!! rich while still easy on the stomach!!!! #listen to my gibberish boy #you can add any amount of sugar and vinegar and cheese it works regardless #I UPPED THE GARLIC BECAUSE OF FEEDBACK BTW #AND PUT THE CHEESE AT THE END TO AVOID IT STICKING TO THE POT

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #I always loved how chapter 27 ends with them both so bloody and 28 starts with them in the bath. #not just because of how iconic the bathtub moment is but because you know they had to scrap off so much gore first. #I think everyone in the party took a very long and methodical bath but Falin was basically *all* blood*. #Being covered in blood is one of those 'just girly things' that women deserve to stop being shamed about. #I just don't think Chilchuck is progressive enough. He probably made them take a bath first B*/ #Okay jestering aside I want to just highlight - #The magnitude of Marcille's joy at seeing her dearest friend again! Of holding her and sharing her presence in the same room! #Something about this reunion feels like a beautiful dream you are afraid of waking up from...

[hack-saw2004]

platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

edit: @saffronlesbian made a video description for this post!!

[vd: a screen recording of a tweet from the 20th of April 2024 with 2.5 million views, from Ruhi @/ruhi_hi. the caption reads, "This video of this little Palestinian angel celebrating his bday in a refugee camp" followed by three emoji of a smiling face with teary eyes. the video clip is 11 seconds long and shows a one-year-old baby seated on the sandy ground, smiling hugely and clapping his hands while people sing to him from offscreen and a large cake is placed in front of him. stuck into the top of the cake is a decoration that reads "happy birthday" in english. the video has the tiktok handle @/ibrahim.jamal99 visible in it. /end vd.]

#free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #let gaza live #save palestine #end the genocide #end the occupation #joy as an act of resistance #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime #mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living #no one is free until we are all free #palestine will be free #dont stop talking about palestine

[beemintty]

we make light of dark situations. that's what humans do.

#on life #on joy #i just watched a video on a group of teens doing something they used to do #they lived in a refuge camp when they were children #and yet #in ge middle of a horrible situation #they were laughing and smiling #they found joy in something most people wouldn't #because as humans we must find light in the darkness #find light in the darkness #light in the darkness #on being human #finding joy #just wanted to share #thoughts #my thoughts #on living #making light

[shutinthenutouse]

#lgbtq+ #gay #lesbian #bisexual #trans #queer #trans men #trans women #non binary #pansexual #asexual #pride #pride month #transgender #transfem #nonbinary #trans joy #trans community #trans beauty