Me With Literally All My Hobbies. I Sometimes Beat Myself Up Over It, Thinking Like Ugh Why Cant I Finish

Me with literally all my hobbies. I sometimes beat myself up over it, thinking like “ugh why can’t I finish any of these drawings instead of starting more new ones”.

But this post reminds me that the joy in these things is in the process of making them - I do them to have fun. Not to say that finally seeing a finished product can’t be satisfying or fulfilling - it usually is - but I don’t think that’s worth beating myself up for all the ones I haven’t finished.

At the end of the day it’s far, far better to start 100 projects you actually like and enjoy doing, than to never start any at all because you can’t motivate yourself to finish the first one you started. It’s exactly as they say: perfect is the enemy of good. So next time, I’ll tell myself: It doesn’t have to be perfect, just “good”. Whatever that is to you. Because a perfect life is lived striving, not for perfection, but to do good things.

Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

Evening wear by Oscar de la Renta

Thoughts that are mutual between cats and their people:

Yeah you're cute when you sleep but you didn't let me sleep either so I'm going to annoy you now because I'm bored. Hahah get poked, sleepy idiot.

How do you not comprehend this when I am literally staring at you. Like I understand that your brain can't understand things this nuanced but come on, how do you not get this.

I don't know if you know that what I am currently doing is an expression of affection, but that won't stop me. Knowing that I showed you that I love you is enough.

I heard a crinkly material and the sound of you chewing so I have to know what's in your mouth RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

I can't communicate with you and you can't communicate with me, so I'm just copying the tone of the sound you're making in hopes that you understand that I try.

You are doing activities beyond my comprehension, and I find this fascinating. I will never understand what the fuck you are trying to achieve here, but I am intrigued nonetheless.

Hey are you ok, you haven't done your weird thing in a while. Yeah I don't get why you do that but I know you do that when you're ok.

Pixel Art Remakes by Rutger van de Steeg

heyyyy hope im the little gay person in someone out there’s phone lol :)

Think about how much you love the little gay people in your phone. It's nice right?

You are the little gay person in someone else's phone. Peace and love ect.

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)