Here are ten signs that show it’s time to let go:
1. Someone expects you to be someone you’re not – Don’t change who you are for anyone else. It’s wiser to lose someone over being who you are, than to keep them by being someone you’re not.
2. A person’s actions don’t match their words – Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do. Your true friends will slowly reveal themselves over time.
3. You catch yourself forcing someone to love you – We shouldn’t beg someone to stay when they want to leave. That’s what love is all about – freedom. And the end of love is not the end of life. Sometimes it takes awhile to find the right person, but the right person is always worth the wait.
4. An intimate relationship is based strictly on physical attraction – Being beautiful outwardly shouldn’t be what defines you. Tue love see into the depth of your heart, and values the person you are inside. It loves all the things that make you unique. People who are only attracted to you because of your pretty face or nice body won’t stay by your side forever. But the people who can see how beautiful your heart is will never leave you.
5. Someone continuously breaks your trust – Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to. When you completely trust a person you’ll automatically get one of two results – a friend for life or a lesson for life. Either way there’s a positive outcome. Either you confirm the fact that this person cares about you, or you get the opportunity to weed them out of your life and make room for those who do.
6. Someone continuously overlooks your worth – When you give yourself to someone who doesn’t respect you, you surrender pieces of your soul that you’ll never get back. Sometimes it’s better to let go of someone and accept the fact that they don’t care for you the way you care for them. Let them leave your life quietly.
7. You are never given a chance to speak your mind – Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it. Life is about being honest and sharing your happiness with others.
8. You are frequently forced to sacrifice your happiness – If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance. Know when to close the account.
9. You truly dislike your current situation, routine, job, etc. – The best thing you can do in life is follow your heart. Take risks. Don’t just make the safe and easy choices because you’re afraid of what might happen. If you do, nothing will ever happen.
10. You catch yourself obsessing over, and living in, the past – What matters most is not the first, but the final chapter of your life. That unveils the details of how well you wrote your story. So let go of the past, set yourself free, and open your mind to the possibility of new relationships and priceless experiences.
Source: http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/04/02/10-signs-its-time-to-let-go/ (Abridged)
Month: April 2016
Pronunciation of “Sigyn”
Someone just “liked” an old post of mine where I described how to say Sigyn which is a little bit of a weird word. I did okay at answering but I didn’t really have as well a grasp on what I was talking about as I thought I did, and I said the wrong thing.
Anyway there is actual policy determined by the Íslensk Málstöð, a division of the ministry of education and culture, about the name Sigyn. It says:
Við framburð nafnsins Sigyn hefur hefð skapast fyrir því að bera g-ið fram eins og gert er í orðinu gista.
Concerning the pronunciation of the name Sigyn, it has become customary to pronounce the ‘g’ like is done in the word gista.
That is, like what is written [c] in IPA – sort of like a “k” sound but a little further forward in the mouth.
You can hear a pronunciation by a native Icelandic speaker here: http://forvo.com/search/Sigyn/
For Old Norse the g-sound would most likely have been [ɣ], like in Icelandic saga. But at the time the y would be like it is in modern Danish/Swedish/Norwegian, sort of like a u-sound but further forward in the mouth, or like an i-sound but with rounded lips.
How to interact with a service dog
Don’t.
That’s it.
This has been a PSA
i dont get what this post means
service dogs are doing a job and usually people want to pet them but then theyll interrupt the job the service dog is trained to do. so the rule of thumb is dont interact with a service dog unless the owner says you can
YEET idc I’m petting the dog anyways
Okay, well.
You shouldn’t pet strangers’ dogs without asking either.
In Boston while waiting for the T, there was a woman with her service dog in full gear also waiting. Two young women went right up to the dog and the moment one of the women reached out to pet the dog, the older woman slapped her hand away and said “My dog is working, do NOT pet.” And I smiled because those young women were in the wrong.
If you came up to my dogs and didn’t ask to pet them, I would slap your hand away, and they’re not even service dogs.
If you pet my service dog without permission, you are stopping him from doing his job.
One of my dog’s jobs is detecting seizures. He gives me a few minutes warning. If he can’t warn me because he’s distracted, I could fall and hit my head.
I could die of a head injury because I wouldn’t have time to find a place to sit and sit down.
But, hey, a stranger gets to pet my dog.
I guess that’s worth it. /sarcasm
Would you go up to a disabled person and interfere with their wheelchair? Would you nudge a blind person’s cane? Interfering with a service dog is no different. You’re putting a person at risk. Service dogs are not pets. Leave them alone.
http://www.littlethings.com/teen-has-seizure-service-dog-distracted/
BOOST!!!
I drew these ages ago, back when I purchased the print copy of Thistil Mistil Kistil by Sarah Schanze. It’s such a wonderful comic – Secret of Kells inspired art, Vikings, and Scandinavian mythology – when I first found it, I felt it had been tailor made for me! I decided to finally upload my sketches of Loki and Sigyn, who are absolutely the cutest couple. Loki is so much fun to draw!
Helpful to remember when you’re having a POTS spell. The squat can be done assisted by a wall or chair. Adjust as needed.
Squats tend to do the opposite of help me but the leg crossing one has been helpful!!
I don’t know what POTS is but maybe this will help someone
POTS is short for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome!
it’s a condition in which standing up causes things like dizzy spells / greyed vision / collapsing / weakness / fainting / difficulty breathing, etc.
mostly because of bad circulation and low blood pressure.If standing up makes your head rush, then doing the above should help!
Holy freaking crap. I have NEVER seen a POTS resources post, I don’t think, and definitely not in cute comic form. (It’s a super rare, obscure thing so there’s just not much help out there.) And yes, it really sucks. Thank you so much!
I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you.
Sigyn to Loki, probably. (via incorrectedda)
Five ways to damage autistic children without even knowing – Autistic, Not Weird
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Society demands that we keep overcoming, overcoming, overcoming. But we don’t have to. Nowhere is it written that to be a really real human you have to brute force your way through your limits. Nowhere is it written that not doing so makes you less worthy. For most people, constantly refusing to acknowledge that you have limits is seen as a problem. We all have limits & we are supposed to acknowledge them, know where they are, work within them.
But when you have a disability, it’s like everyone expects you to push past your limits all the time. They want to be inspired, or they want to not have to deal with the fact that a disability means “there are things I cannot and will never be able to do”, even as they expect me to know there are things I can do that they will never be able to.
So we are pushed to keep ‘overcoming’, and if we can’t we are failures and lazy. But if we can, we aren’t really disabled. It’s a no win either way.
Loki and Sigyn by Lorenz Frølich
Holding the Bowl 