mundanitymusingss

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from the inhabit manifesto

5/12/2025 9:18am

I did not sleep too well last night but that's to be expected, since I slept in suuuuuper late yesterday. Tomorrow is my thyroid biopsy, which I'm looking forward to. Want to know for sure that this isn't cancer (all of my symptoms line up with Hashimoto's, not cancer). I have an appointment with my PCP at the end of the month so I'm trying to remain positive.

I just want a fucking diagnosis, man.

“Notice the people who make an effort to stay in your life.”

— Unknown

Watch me get what I want in life

WHY ARE YOU LONELY: A TEXT GAME - Mallory Ortberg

WHY ARE YOU LONELY: CHOOSE ONE

FAILED TO NURTURE RELATIONSHIPS BORN OUT OF CONVENIENCE ONCE CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES REQUIRED ACTIVE PARTICIPATION FROM YOU

WATCHED NETFLIX FOR SEVEN HOURS INSTEAD OF SLEEPING BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN MISTAKEN INERTIA FOR REST

CONFUSED “SELF-CARE” WITH “SELF-INDULGENCE” AGAIN; YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF EXPERIENCING GENUINE REFRESHMENT OR RESTORATION BUT YOU DO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY AT NAIL SALONS

ONCE AGAIN CONFUSED “EMPATHY” FOR “TAKING RESPONSIBILITY” AND INVITED OTHERS TO UNLOAD THEIR EMOTIONAL BURDENS ON YOU WITHOUT FIRST ENSURING RECIPROCITY, WHOOPS

ANTICIPATORILY BLAMED OTHER PEOPLE FOR NOT CALLING YOU WITHOUT ONCE ASKING YOURSELF WHY YOU CAN’T CALL THEM

ASSUMING ANY TIME SPENT TOGETHER THAT YOU HAD TO INITIATE IS SOMEHOW LESS AUTHENTIC THAN REQUESTS FOR TIME SPENT TOGETHER THAT YOU ACCEPT

BELIEVE “PERIODICALLY EXPERIENCING THE HUMAN CONDITION” MEANS SOMETHING IS FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN WITHIN YOU

CONSTANTLY LIE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS THEN WONDER WHY YOU FEEL LIKE NO ONE KNOWS YOU

MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THAT NEGATIVE FEELINGS MUST BE MISTAKES EITHER TO BE AVOIDED OR FIXED RATHER THAN EXPERIENCED

DESIRE TO BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT THE CONCOMITANT WILLINGNESS TO FULLY EXPLAIN YOURSELF

BELIEVE TRYING AT SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT SHOULD RESULT IN INSTANT PERFECTION AND FIND YOURSELF HORRIFIED AND ASHAMED OF MAKING REALISTIC PROGRESS

TRY COCONUT OIL

CONVINCED THAT HONESTLY ADMITTING YOUR PROBLEMS WILL DRIVE PEOPLE AWAY BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES COMPLAINING SO INSTEAD YOU OFFER EVERYONE A PISS-POOR SIMULACRUM OF BEING EASY-GOING

STILL JUST WAITING FOR THINGS TO HAPPEN TO YOU INSTEAD OF EXPRESSING YOUR DESIRES ALOUD

THINK YOU’RE BEING PLAYFUL BUT ACTUALLY YOU JUST GET MEAN WHEN YOU DRINK

SPEND ALL YOUR TIME SAYING THINGS LIKE “EITHER’S GOOD” OR “DOESN’T MATTER TO ME” WHEN IN FACT ONLY ONE THING IS GOOD AND IT DOES MATTER TO YOU BUT YOU THINK “NOT EXPRESSING A PREFERENCE” IS THE BEST PERSONALITY TRAIT YOU HAVE TO OFFER OTHERS

PEOPLE ACTUALLY MORE AWARE OF YOUR BARELY-CONCEALED CONTEMPT FOR THEIR CHOICES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAN YOU THINK THEY ARE

NO GOOD REASON, SORRY

Mallory Ortberg plz stop laying my psyche bare for the world to see

5/9/2025 9:54am

My yearning for creativity has been so strong lately, but it's like my compass isn't tuned. I'm craving the creative process but I feel stuck in the initiation phase. There are so many projects and crafts that I could do....Need a crafting session with some friends STAT.

who is it that needs you to be perfect? because it isn't you. and what sort of perfect is it that you have to be? is it whole, is it authentic and full? is it everything you are and everything you have been, embraced and accepted? or is it a sanitized, easily digestible, inoffensive and rigid, unlived textbook beauty and conforming shell of what you truly are?

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

5/8/2025 9:52am

ohhhh I get it now. I'm meant to subvert outdated/useless societal standards with my own flavor and prioritize growth and contentment.

I think we’re all so brave for making it through every day

if you’re reading this

a lump sum of money is on the way to you

the epic highs and tragic lows of literally just being in my head on a perfectly normal day

Video captions: And stop trying to show your ex what they missed out on! Stop trying to teach your family a lesson for not believing in you! Stop trying to shit on your haters! Do it for you! Do it because you deserve it! Do it for YOU! Water your dreams with love! Don’t put no hate and resentment, and try to — “oh Imma fucking show them, Imma show” — FUCK THEM! Fuck them, do it for you! They don’t matter! They NEVER mattered.

New Zealand's Goblin Forest

Honoured to have received some wonderful results from this year’s @greatwalksmag Wilderness Photographer of the Year competition, including a win for ‘Creatures in the Shadows’ (photo 1)

benjamin.maze

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

5/7/2025 10:49am

oughhhh i just wanna craft all day!!!!!!!! wtf is work??????? I want to ephemera journals and sew!!!!

5/6/2025 1:26pm

I think I could sleep for a month straight at this point.

I'm so exhausted. I took sick leave yesterday and I thought I was better but goddamn. Every time I think I'm getting used to my level of fatigue it changes. I just want to be able to get through a day without feeling like I'm dying. I suppose on the bright side my joints aren't as sore today, so that's something.

I just fucking wish that I could work from home without an ADA request. I'm the only person in office full-time, which wouldn't be an issue if I didn't have mysterious chronic illness b.s. affecting me on a daily basis. I've genuinely never taken this much time off of work at any job before this one.

Evening Primrose, 1970s

Mickey Crisp

Monument Valley

Valley of Fire

Sunset to sunrise...

another solo trip to Joshua Tree is calling me.

5/2/2025 11:33pm

finally feeling a bit more human today. yayyyy

My head is floating 1000 feet above me today sos