Beloved Mother Sister Shijie

When I joined Engineering, for the first time, I found myself to be, academically, just an average person. Below average, in fact. With no other talent, academic prowess was my only source of pride - now even that was gone.

Predictably, when my first semester grades came, I rationalized that since the grades were not outstanding, it did not matter if they were decent or absolutely horrible. I call this an ‘all or nothing’ mindset.

As a result, I stopped caring and my grades kept slipping.

And all my sins are catching up when I'm having to apply for an internship or job interview. I'm having constant anxiety.

This all or nothing mindset is pure evil. This is why, when things are not going well, we totally give up instead of fighting to redeem whatever is possible. It is why we wait for the New Year to make resolutions instead of getting started the next day - ‘After all, since this year is imperfect, why bother at all?’

This is why we give up on our dreams when we suffer a setback. This mindset is just an excuse for procrastination.

Life is not a black and white choice between ‘perfect’ and ‘imperfect’; most of life is grayscale. We don’t have to be perfect - we just have to do the best we can, under the circumstances.

according to my calculations you’re fucking HOT

julance day 2! lance in glasses + turtleneck ayyy

The making of a blep

Art by Kate Liu

Ko-Fi donation drive Art request N.5 and last: Wangxian! Requested by @neverenoughwangxian and @i-am-forever-a-fan on Tumblr. ( I know one was supposed to be a forehead touch but I made a compromise with two same requests)

honestly...it’s ok to just use your skills on yourself! sewing clothes only you to wear, making art to hang up in your own personal area, singing and recording songs for you only to listen to...like not everything has to be for other people’s consumption!

Hyung, you are not acting like yourself. Hey, what’s acting like myself? That’s up to you.

THE EIGHTH SENSE (2023) dir. Inu Baek & Werner du Plessis

More chaotic children

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