“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”
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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium
(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)
me gazing out into the ocean: sure is some scary soup
can we stop putting tacky graphics on literally everything? ill be in forever 21 and find a shirt that looks like something id really want and then ill unfold it and itll say some shit like “slap my ass i love to drink coffee and radiate good vibes” and i just wanna know what i did to deserve this and who the fuck asked for that?
Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.
I’m so despacito I’m literally going on omegle for friends
my phone autocorrected desperate to despacito I love this timeline
very ridiculous that i am expected to graduate college and then do something else after that
Fun facts of countries 1:
Austria: The Austrians invented croissants not the French.
Belgium: World top exporter in billiard balls.
Canada: Canada built a UFO landing pad in 1967.
China: Green bean-flavoured ice pops can be bought in China.
Denmark: No place in Denmark is more than 30 miles (50 km) from the sea.
Finland: There is a dinosaur heavy metal band in Finland that is incredibly popular with children.
France: You can marry a dead person in France.
Germany: It’s illegal to run out of fuel on the highway.
Iceland: They don’t have any mosoqitoes in Iceland.
Italy: There is a free 24-hour red wine fountain in central Italy.
Japan: They use more paper for comics than for toilet paper.
Netherlands: The Dutch cultivated orange carrots to honour Willem van Oranje (of Orange).
Norway: Norway introduced salmon sushi to the Japanese.
Poland: Max Factor was invented by a pole.
Sweden: Sweden pays high school students $143 per month to attend school.
Switzerland: In 2007, Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein.
United kingdom: The Navy used to use Britney Spears’ music to scare off Somali pirates at the east African coast.
United States of America: 100 acres of pizza are served in the United States every day.
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