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treating your friends as newsroom Correspondents

i don’t know that much about movies, but i’m besties with a movie guy. i don’t watch that many shows, but i’m besties with a show guy. i don’t know that much about esoteric developments in the star wars fandom, but i’m besties with a star wars guy… etc. one of the awesome things about having a diverse and close group of friends is that all of your collective knowledge-bases grow exponentially. i feel more capable of facing the world bc of the wisdom given to me by my loved ones - especially the ones that are most different than me

@dotmatrices

Aug 31, 2024

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finding the right people

And you’re set for life (with the added effort of maintaining it). I used to try to surround myself with people who I thought were cool and also tried so bad to fit in. I still do feel conscious about that sometimes when I front for a person I place on a pedestal or really am infatuated with (in a platonic way). I’ve also had friends I get easily frustrated with who point out my mistakes as jokes but I’ve realised are super flawed and insecure. It becomes a relationship where you slowly turn into a projection of them. (I’m not sure how to phrase it). And I’m the kind that forgives very easily the moment someone is nice to me. Howeverrrrr… over the past few years and more so over the past year I found a group of people I could be open and comfortable with… and I have to say an open and fulfilling relationship with the right people and friends will make you a much better person overall. I’ve also been so inspired by the circle of friends I’ve got now. It’s not necessarily the friends who always ask you to go out to shop or hang but the friends who you do things with and talk about anything with. Gratefully & Gratituously, I love my friends.

@undiagnosedflu

Feb 18, 2024

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Form new memories with people from the present

one of my exes got me a pair of sneakers like, very shortly before we broke up so i kept them in their original box in the closet before i ever got to wear them for like, a whole year before i started dating my current partner and she said she liked them a lot and that i should absolutely wear them - now they’re not “my exe’s shoes”, they’re “the shoes my partner likes” i think it’s really nice when that happens organically, but you can definitely push the needle forward yourself if need be; do a listening party for that album with your friends, watch that show or movie with your siblings, expand the circle of trust around <thing> so it belongs to more people, and in turn it’ll belong to you more than it did when it was just you and the person who introduced you to it

@alaiyo

Mar 21, 2024

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Quotes from my last read

“so this is the great american dream my parents came to this country for: work hard, get a good education, follow the rules, and you will be rich. i don’t want to be rich. i just want to be able to feed my children and live with some semblance of dignity” “every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, [means] a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”

@alexislang

Mar 13, 2025

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Working out in pajamas

this is extremely guy coded but for some reason it’s cracked the whole gym thing wide open for me (granted i only do this at my apartment gym but still.) i roll right out of bed in the morning and head downstairs and i fucking love it. maybe it’s the secret to actually being consistent w the gym

@alexislang

Mar 18, 2025

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STRETCHING

as ive gotten older ive felt less and less flexible so ive been stretching in the mornings and it’s been amazing. i think everyone should. we only get one body, take care of it!

@alexislang

Mar 11, 2025