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letting yourself love the space that doing a thing creates without having to be good at it — dancing brings me so much joy but I’m honestly terrible at it and so what! aren’t hobbies meant to be hobbies ❤️🩹
Apr 19, 2025
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eventually you get better at it and as long as you’re enjoying it, who cares?
Apr 14, 2025
I have been on and off playing the guitar for a little while now (maybe a year?). I am just god awful. But I really want to be good. Sometimes I feel like a fraud even holding my guitar. But I have decided that no one said I had to be good. Your hobbies are valid no matter your skill level. <3
Ps. My guitar is pink and has gold sparkles on it and I think that’s fun and cool.
Aug 14, 2024
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Like, no shit! Why do we expect to be experts in everything we try! Do something you’re curious about and you’ll learn some stuff and learn about yourself and eventually you’ll get better. Or maybe you’ll always be bad. Who cares!
May 1, 2024
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I think 10 year old addy would’ve passed out if she’d known that she would come to own this in 13 years…you can take the girl out of bikini bottom but you can’t take bikini bottom out of the girl
2d ago
i know it sounds so cliché but i work for a climate organisation & i just came home from a work event so i’m feeling very inspired/energised/refreshed…please find your community because it is tiring, draining, & almost impossible to drive social change alone. you don’t have to do it alone.
A community helps your cause. We protest, meet, rally, & cry in numbers for this reason. 💜
Jun 29, 2024
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i really also think about how much boys are taught ways to perform masculinity & how it is legitimised through tangible things like building a career etc but with women i find that from a young age our identity, behaviours, & thoughts are always spoken about in relation to other people/things — gender roles within the family, how we’re perceived by men, our friendships with other women, our relationships with material things etc etc — and this shows up in the labels that women are often given too! so and so is someone’s daughter, girlfriend, wife, mother etc etc. i envy the freedom of boyhood so much, the freedom to just be (this is not to discount the toxicity of traditional masculinity, i just think that boys are still afforded more “play” and therefore have more opportunities to develop their sense of self).
maybe i am also biased because of how i’ve grown up & whatnot but i never really understood what it meant to quote unquote be a woman or perform femininity. i only saw this modelled within my nurturing friendships with women as i’ve gotten older but when i was younger, in church it was always “ok well don’t do this or that because x y z will happen to men if you do” or within my extended family it was often “are you seeing anyone? when are you having kids”. damn what happened to asking about how i’m doing or what my dreams are!!!
long rant sorry !! but that’s my long winded way of saying “i feel you” haha
Jun 28, 2024