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davingson

4d

I Stopped Rushing Mornings and Everything About My Day Changed

I Stopped Rushing Mornings and Everything About My Day Changed

For most of my adult life my morning started in reactive mode before i had even properly woken up. The alarm was the signal to check the phone which immediately imported whatever the world had deposited

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davingson

7d

The Apology I Never Got Taught Me to Give Better Ones

The Apology I Never Got Taught Me to Give Better Ones

I waited a long time for something that was not coming. Not dramatically. Just quietly, in the background, leaving a kind of open circuit in a relationship that could never fully close because the thing

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davingson

10d

One Hundred Days of Showing Up for This

One Hundred Days of Showing Up for This

I want to be honest about what this has actually been rather than what it is supposed to look like as a milestone. Some of these days were easy. The thing i wanted to say was already forming before i sat

davingson

11d

I Let Someone Go and Loved Them More for It

I Let Someone Go and Loved Them More for It

There is a version of love that i held for a long time that equated staying with caring. That read releasing someone as a withdrawal of feeling. That measured the depth of love by the tightness of the

vanessakor

1d

Morning fresh face ☀️🧴 [eng-esp]| Rostro fresco de la mañana

Morning fresh face ☀️🧴 [eng-esp]| Rostro fresco de la mañana

Hi liketu, what are you up to, well i wanted to share a bitty update, like i have mentioned before, i have been into look maxxing this entire fall season and its natural to share little behind beauty endvours,

davingson

12d

Started Asking Better Questions and My Life Started Giving Better Answers

Started Asking Better Questions and My Life Started Giving Better Answers

For years the questions i asked myself operated in a specific register. Am i doing enough. What is wrong here. Why is this not working. What am i missing. They came with a built in assumption that something

davingson

13d

The Relationship That Looked Perfect From the Outside Was the Loneliest I Have Ever Been

The Relationship That Looked Perfect From the Outside Was the Loneliest I Have Ever Been

People used to say things about it that made me feel strange in a way i could not fully account for at the time. The compliments landed wrong. Not because they were false exactly but because they were

davingson

14d

Anger Is Not Always the Enemy, Sometimes It Is Information

Anger Is Not Always the Enemy, Sometimes It Is Information

For most of my life i bypassed anger so quickly and efficiently that i barely registered it was there before i had already moved past it. Something would happen that should have produced anger and instead

davingson

20d

Stop Letting Your Past Self Make Decisions for Your Current Self

Stop Letting Your Past Self Make Decisions for Your Current Self

There is a job i stayed in too long because leaving would have meant admitting that the version of me who took it had gotten something wrong. The sunk cost of what i had already invested in the direction

geila

1d

Caminar hacia la Vejez...

Caminar hacia la Vejez...

Envejecer es un proceso tierno,un ciclo natural como las hojasque mudan su color en el invierno.Es ley de vida, el tiempo no despojas.Cumplir los años es un gran regalo,un privilegio que a ninguno sobra;no

davingson

21d

I Finally Understood What My Parents Sacrificed and It Changed Everything

I Finally Understood What My Parents Sacrificed and It Changed Everything

The understanding came late. Not suddenly either. In pieces over several years, through conversations that became possible only after i was old enough to ask the right questions and they were old enough

davingson

24d

The Days I Felt Most Lost Were the Days That Redirected Me

The Days I Felt Most Lost Were the Days That Redirected Me

There have been a few periods in my life where i genuinely did not know what i was doing or where things were going. Not the productive uncertainty of being between chapters. The heavier kind where the

davingson

25d

The Pressure to Have It All Together Is Making Everyone Quietly Fall Apart

The Pressure to Have It All Together Is Making Everyone Quietly Fall Apart

There is an unspoken requirement in most adult environments that you present yourself as functional. Handling things. On top of it. Maybe acknowledging stress in a general manageable way that signals you

mabalazech

25d

Discover the Filipina Beauty No.1 Kim Dominggo

Discover the Filipina Beauty No.1 Kim Dominggo

Hello, Hive friends! 👋 I'm back again for a new chapter of my hive-journey and my mission for this chapter is to share beauty of our beloved chicks all around the world. HAHA. Let’s start with one of

darth-azrael

7d

Maximum PC (July 2005)

Maximum PC (July 2005)

Maximum PC (and 'boot' before it) was my favorite PC magazine. It was a sister magazine to Mac Addict and both were enthusiast magazines for their respective platforms. The July 2005 issue of Maximum PC

davingson

1M

I Stopped Measuring My Life in Milestones and Started Measuring It in Moments

I Stopped Measuring My Life in Milestones and Started Measuring It in Moments

For a long time i was milestone oriented in a way that made the spaces between milestones feel like waiting rooms. The degree, the job, the relationship, the apartment, the next level of whatever ladder

davingson

1M

The Thing About Trust Is You Only Know It Was Real After It Breaks

The Thing About Trust Is You Only Know It Was Real After It Breaks

I trusted someone completely once. Not naively, not without knowing them first. After years of consistent evidence that they were who they presented themselves to be. The trust was built slowly and felt

davingson

1M

Someday Is Not a Day of the Week, and I Stopped Treating It Like One

Someday Is Not a Day of the Week, and I Stopped Treating It Like One

I had a list. Not written down formally but existing clearly in my mind. Things i was going to do someday. Places i was going to see. Conversations i was going to have. The book i was going to read, the

davingson

1M

Thought Self Love Was Selfish Until Life Taught Me Otherwise

Thought Self Love Was Selfish Until Life Taught Me Otherwise

Self love as a phrase landed badly for me for a long time. Felt like it belonged to a specific aesthetic that had more to do with face masks and captions than with anything substantive. I dismissed it

thoughtfulposts

ThoughtfulDailyPost

5d

Thoughtful Thursday Prompt #51

Thoughtful Thursday Prompt #51

Thoughtful Thursday Prompt #51

davingson

1M

What Nobody Tells You About Starting Over

What Nobody Tells You About Starting Over

I have started over more than once. Not always by choice. Sometimes circumstances simply removed what was there and starting over was the only honest response to what remained. source The version of starting

davingson

1M

The Hardest Part of Growth Is Who You Leave Behind

The Hardest Part of Growth Is Who You Leave Behind

Nobody tells you about the social cost of becoming a different person. The way growth is supposed to be celebrated and how it actually disrupts things in ways that are more complicated than any celebration

davingson

1M

You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind About Who You Are

You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind About Who You Are

I described myself a certain way for years. Used specific words. Had a reliable self narrative that explained why i was the way i was, what i valued, how i operated. It felt like self awareness. It was

davingson

1M

I Stopped Trying to Fix People and Started Trying to Understand Them

I Stopped Trying to Fix People and Started Trying to Understand Them

There was a person in my life i spent years trying to help in ways they had not asked for. Not maliciously. I genuinely cared about them and could see things in their situation that seemed obvious from