dogs are so pure
this dog is literally trying to lie about not digging a hole
i love this dog
(via trippy-tyger)
what my parents told me: you can do anything if you set your mind to it
what I wish my parents had told me: sometimes you will fail, and it will be scary and it will suck, but you will probably not die
I would also have appreciated: the fact that you can do something if you try very, very hard, does not actually obligate you to spend your life putting forth maximum effort to achieve it. It is okay to not be 1000% driven by life-consuming ambition and instead be satisfied with something less difficult.
another important one: it is possible to fail due to circumstances beyond your control. it’s ok to be sad about it, but don’t blame yourself or convince yourself that you could have changed the outcome if only you had done this or that instead. of all the things we can’t control, the biggest is the past.
One more: It is also possible to succeed due to circumstances beyond your control. Just as failure does not make you inherently worse than the person who succeeded, success does not make you inherently better than the person who failed. Stay humble. Have compassion.
This is a lot to expect your parents to tell you. Most of them are just trying to figure it out themselves
That’s a fair criticism. This is hard stuff and nobody hands you a manual when you bring your kids home. I could put the original post into words until I was 31 years old. I was 29 before I started reconciling three very hard realities of my childhood: 1) my parents did their best. 2) it was not in any way good enough. 3) I deserved better.
This is hard stuff I can’t and don’t talk about with my parents, because these are conversations they’re not equipped to have with me.
That’s why we’re all having this conversation, though. This post has crossed the dashes of 27,000 real human beings and their followers. More 27,000 people have seen these things put into words they didn’t have before – and they can take those words (tools) into their lives and use them with the children in their lives and hopefully, those children will grow up a little better off than we did.
(and they’ll have their own sets of pain and things they wished they’d been told rather than having to figure it out on their own– but that’s part of being a person. We get by with what we have. We learn new things. We share, we get better. We grow.)
(via negative-wonderland)
“Pit bulls are bred to fight”
Yeah fightin back my tears
(Source: twitter.com, via perks-of-being-chinese)