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Touya: How do you deal with the crushing pressure of everyone else’s expectations?

Keigo: By outrunning them.

Touya: But… what if I’m not fast enough?

Keigo: .. I don’t know.

Keigo: I don’t know.

— Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

identity crisis

all these years I have been good at academics and didn’t have any other hobby or extra-curricular that I pursued, well except for my love for reading novels ( now web-novels or fanfics). Somehow it became my identity, always my name and the comment, “she is good in studies”. 

Now everybody expects but I find myself drained. Now when the most important exam of my career is here, my drive and determination is gone. I am so damn scared that it has paralysed me so much so that I am running from my studies. Once the raven who fought so hard for her right to study is actively avoiding it. I find myself lost and alone. 

I know there are many like me who were defined by their academic achievements and perhaps now without it, are floundering. I don’t have much words to say to you, what can I say when I myself am....now even the words fail me. 

I let the people get to me, their words building me up or tearing me apart. Their opinions embedded in me, shredding my soul. Sometimes darkness creeps into me, I find myself guarding the light in me. Everyday is a battle. But it is a battle I intend to win. 

There are things I need to do, places I wish to explore, hope and faith is keeping me going. I don’t just want to survive. I want to live and live and live. 

In case anyone forgot, we only have 3 of 13 songs from Hayley Kiyoko’s first album, and those three songs are:

Sleepover (aka falling in love with your straight best friend and thinking about it all the goddamn time)

Feelings (aka becoming super attached to a girl hella quick and then apologizing for it, but not being able to stop because g i r l s)

Curious (aka seeing a girl you’ve been with with a guy and being like “yeah okay men are trash and you’ll come running back”)

(aka this album already encompasses three main lesbian Moods and I can’t wait to see the rest of her unbelievably relatable content our lesbian messiah has waiting for us)

QUEENS

This is really good and very real. We can't take the ggod and leave the bad behind.

I'm not Asian, but ignoring the suffering they went through is ridiculous.

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

"And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this."

The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen

Absolutely.

Please,

don't let your hurt fool you into longing,

don't let your sorrow fool you into hoping,

&

don't let the traitor fool you into trusting...

not again

I would say, unless

they change

but

do not let the desperation fool you into expecting.

Emily Yvonne, fragments of my mind

Never lose yourself within everyone else’s expectations. You have your own expectations to keep track of.

Had to stop looking at my tumblr because of yoglab spoilers (also because its one in the morning), obviously its gonna be a good yoglabs. I have great expectations now :)

YOU’RE TOO OLD

YOU’RE TOO OLD TO BE PRESSURED BY EXPECTATIONS

YOU’RE TOO OLD TO BE TOLD WHAT YOU SHOULD OR SHOULDN’T LIKE

YOU’RE TOO OLD TO BE DEFINED BY OTHER PEOPLE

YOU’RE TOO OLD TO F*CKING CARE

-cinday.blair

Expectations are the WORSE

I'm serious getting you're hopes up just for them to be crushed by someone is like the worse thing that could happen I mean why the heck do I do this to myself I should just go live alone in some cave or smth urgh

Stop a second to think if you would die today could you say you were really living your life without knowing your words are a lie?

Artist

What people think: very sophisticated people who think highly of themselves or kids who do drugs, skip classes to smoke weed.

What it's actually like: A bunch of socially awkward kids who like to wear big sweaters and do not (or rarely) mention that they like drawing/painting/writing/ect.

ASSERTIVE RUNAWAY CONDITIONS ( LESSON )

Quite often, managers get overwhelmed by demands made by both their superiors as well as by junior staff.

In a thriving environment, many reports and approved expenses add up, and before long these managers begin to give themselves congratulatory slaps for their backs.

The entrenched belief is that they will escape multiple waves of layoffs, because without them the business will come to a crashing halt.

As a result, they grow into permitting day-to-day demands to subsume their own judgment.

Effective managers do better. Effective managers control tasks with proactive approaches, and adjust naive expectations of stakeholders in line with observations from available data. This way, they get more reserve towards strategic goals, rather than in putting put fires.

Effective managers observe some distance between themselves and carefree politicking. They notice false alarms and growing concerns and get right to work clearing the air. social media cannot control their facts on hiring or views on ethics.

Techlowcul

How Assertive Are You?

I probably shouldn't admit this flaw in a blog post where others might read it, but this is the age of transparency, so here goes: I'm a pus

In a nutshell, don't worry about all the pieces that come with trouble. Just ensure clear points and reliable data that proves what is working!!

Adapted from Bruce & Ghoshal , Harvard Business Review

to: izzy

are you trying your best?

or are you pretending to be trying your best?

from: izzy

His voice is so melodic; I can't wait to hear the whole album.

Would someone else listen to this and let me know if you hear Ji's voice as a backup singer between 2:28 -2:35. It sure sounds like him through my headphones.

nice