Anyone have any tips on combating anxiety attacks?

• Me: Do you know how much you're going to spend on my boob job
• Roman: 5-7k?
• Me: I think 5-12k for me but I'm not sure.. b/c I might need a lift also but Idk
• Roman: You know what I could buy with 12k?
• Me: my happiness
• Roman: a car
• Me: you can ride my new chest HAHAHA

wtf is wrong with me

Here’s an apology for anyone who needs it from me. I’m sorry for whatever I did. I’m becoming a better person.

Hello:)

Whos still using this platform?

I miss writing my thoughts. It’s been about 6 years or so since I’ve really had this outlet. I just have so much to say and I guess I feel some type of shame of ever feeling the things I feel. I feel weak for feeling this way. I dont even want it tied to my name but at the same time, I want an audience. I want someone to hear me.

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shinykari:

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hollowedskin:

cannon-fannon:

boneyardchamp:

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).

Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.

And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

I will always reblog this.

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

1. Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).
   
2. Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.
3. If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

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I haven’t written on here in a while but I really wanted to document the happiness that I feel today.

I worked at OG, My typical opener shift, that I was dreading since I have not worked the past two weeks due to comic con and exams coming up. I got in, and had 3 tables. My third and last table was the one who uplifted my spirits. There was a Lola, mom, and her daughter with her boyfriend. I don’t usually initiate conversations about being Filipino but today something told me to.. I am so glad that I did. I simply asked if the younger ones could understand tagalog and they were saying that the daughter can understand tagalog but her boyfriend is cambodian Chinese so he can’t. I told them I could understand tagalog and also speak Ilocano. It turns out they could speak both too! Speaking my native language with them just took me back, and it was just amazing how welcoming they felt, especially the Lola. I was also surprised that I didn’t struggle with speaking Ilocano with them because I have a hard time understanding others speaking Ilocano besides my mom and sister who I barely see nowadays. It was just so easy and light. During the meal, the mom would say “anak ko” and it was just endearing. I didn’t realize that it was common for older Ilocanos to talk to this way. I remembered that I also had a guest a year or so ago who referred to me as “balasang ko” and it had also uplifted me then. The family just had a great vibe about them. Towards the end of the meal, Lola told me that she wanted to give money to the busser that she has seen cleaning the room. She said a voice was telling her to give her money. I thought that was so sweet. And at the end, Lola and mom told me that they liked me, liked my face, and was very charming, and that I gave them a good vibe and that God will bless me. I already had a great time with speaking my native tongue with them, but the uplifting portion at the end just took me to the top. I feel so light and that everything will be okay. I haven’t been around uplifting people in a while and I wish I was around more people that are like that.

I’m happy.
I feel free and I can do anything.

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You make lists in your head about what you want in a lover, like brown hair and a sweet voice. A sharp mind and a soft heart, a sense of humor that actually makes you laugh like you mean it. This and that. And it’s all bullshit. Because people aren’t lists. And I’ve always wanted to be the person who made someone realize that. I want to come across someone with a list in their head that is nothing like the person I am, and I want to show them what they didn’t even know they were looking for. People who think they know what they want are fooling themselves. Nobody really knows what they want.
Not until it’s right in front of them.
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I grew up thinking that in order to live a happy life, I had to get good grades and go to a prestigious university and get a highly paid job. But as I grew older I began to realise that in order to life a happy life, I had to choose it for myself and not live a life that others expect of me, whether it be your parents, teachers or friends. This is your life.

I made a decision that I didn’t want to be successful and live in a big house with fancy cars in the drive. So, I packed my bags and got out of this little town that had suffocated me for the last 18 years and drank coffee in small shops in Germany, chased the Horizon in Australia, woke up with a mountain view in Singapore. How beautiful is it to know that your feet have walked the grounds of many different countries and your skin has felt the air of many busy cities.

Please darling, do not get lost in society’s belief that you are only successful if you have a well paid job, like I once had. As humans, we are going to die, that is one thing we are guaranteed in life. What will you care about the most while lying on your death bed, your fancy cars, big house? Or the stories and experience you have encountered on the journey of this beautiful thing called life?

So there’s one thing I ask of you: please travel. Whether you’re 21 or 49. It is never too early nor too late so see the beautiful world.

i-wonder-lust 
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