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nostalgic academia

- cleaning your room and finding old souvenirs from places you’ve been, notes left in blazer and cardigan pockets - religiously drinking out of only the swirly straw cup you bought from the national space museum all those years ago - looking at old polaroids, trying to commit every blurry inch of the pictures to memory - reading old notes you passed in class back from when you loved him - reading your old text messages with him, laughing, crying and cringing, til tears patter onto your screen - thinking of better days, back then with them (and you) i felt inspired again today, i was cleaning out my room and found lots of old notes and pictures and spent an hour looking at them and thinking til i cried, kind of wishing i was the same naive 13 year old. looking back at my intro at the start of this page makes me happy and sad, even if i haven’t been the most active or followed user, i remember every single post i’ve written and what i thought when writing them, all the emotions. it’s weird and miserable and magical (get that 22 reference ;) yes taysway)  until next time with all the love a person can possibly muster, Amimi

a reminder for you (but mainly for me)

the ideal university experience is a myth - all your mutuals on instagram posting about all their cool parties and cool friends don't live everyday like that, they probably don't look like that everyday either, people will only show you their best moments. people can be immature in uni just like they were in college and in school, coming to uni doesn't suddenly make you mature and neither does it make anyone else either. friendship breakups and all that petty shit happens to everyone. you're there to get a degree and not make friends, if the living environment or the people put you off, do you really want it that badly? i think i lost all my uni friends today because of a misunderstanding, some of them are in my classes and one is my flatmate who i can't avoid. but its only my foundation year and i'll meet other people next year. and when people have real jobs they have to work with people they dont like aswell, so its kinda like practice for the future. i think i'm gonna get back into movie reviews, drawing and painting again, and i was considering starting fencing? i think it would be fun. and i'm going to take my iron medication and vitamins too. because being alone isn't the end of the world. until next time (which is probably soon) Amina

Hayao Miyazaki

7 days 7 movies

a series of posts i'd like to do where i watch a movie and write it about it the same day, every day for one week (starting Monday June 26th because I've got exams rn). send me recommendations either via my inbox or even the comments of this post and i'll get back to you soon! know that any and all recommendations will be appreciated!

‘eat the frog' method

Hi all, it’s werelivingarts. I just stumbled across this method called ‘eat the frog’, which means you get the most difficult or important task out of your way first. I actually have been using this method for a long time, hope this post gives you a new way of managing your time and productivity! 😜

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” – Mark Twain 

how did i end up non stop smiling over stupid crushing quotes on pinterest and ended up with a private board, with over a hundred pins and almost every single one mentions something about his eyes or laugh or smile.

STOP WAITING FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER COME!

THERE WILL BE NO CALL TO ADVENTURE, YOU HAVE TO CHASE IT YOURSELF!!

hey hey hey! paris was awesome! took a bunch of polaroids so the aesthetic is on fleek. disneyland really was awesome, best part of the trip for sure! i cried so badly at the Illuminations light and firework show that i forgot to take a picture. my first time seeing fireworks! i ended up standing there in utter awe and sobbing hysterically while staring at the pretty pretty pretty lights -although, the hotel was awful, dirty bedsheets gave me an acne breakout and there was a cockroach and the worlds biggest spider hiding in the corners on the ceiling and i vomited on the ferry and the coach to the horror of the girl sitting next to me, she was cool though, she let me sleep on her shoulder and seemed unfazed by it all, im not going to let those things ruin it for me, rather i’d prefer to look back at the trip fondly. overall it was awesome

Note to self: Next time bring your own bedsheets and sick tablets ~Amimi

slight delay in the 7 days 7 movies series, had a trip to go see WICKED! in a huge theatre in London, I'll post about that later! got a huge amount of work to do for tommorow but I'll be sure to post very soon!!!

another important thing to remember is 1) u can pick up any hobby at any point in ur life and get outstandingly good at it & 2) the project u've been working on & aren't pleased w the current outcome so far will not be your last. u will draw/crochet/paint/sculpt/write another piece, and another, and you will have many chances to be fully content w your craft. so you should cherish the joy of making art instead of worrying ab the results & think ab how lovely it is that we're all vessels for artistry and we can share the divine act of creation!!!!!