people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.
My very first job was at Taco Bell, and most of us working there were horrible young adults with horrible young adult problems, but one of my coworkers was a woman in (I think) her 50s.
And us horrid young adults would ask her why she still worked at Taco Bell, because it was starter job and who would want to stay there forever? Her response?
“I make enough money to make sure I always have roses in my bedroom.”
This answer changed me as a person. It changed the way I thought about what makes someone successful, and made me step back and realize that I was so caught up in what I thought success and happiness should meanthat I didn’t know what I wanted them to mean.
Which is to say that sometimes ambition is making enough money to keep fresh roses in your bedroom, and you should be able to do that working at Taco Bell.
hello tumblr user who wrote a post about the inefficacy of callout posts. i’m going to scroll your blog and you have to survive for 45 seconds without me finding an incest p oh the bomb collar went off. it already exploded. it went off already
it’s okay to draw for glory. don’t let anyone convince you that art has to be a hobby. you don’t have to rest or take breaks. if you feel yourself hitting a wall feel free to lose sleep over the process. you can forgo friendship if you need to. it’s completely fine to want to want your art to win you immortality through your influence and canonization as a master. you don’t have to take it easy
I do find it a little bit charming when I see two invasive species from the same origin country reunite in my back yard. especially when they then eat each other.
We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, “An army can’t fight if the soldiers aren’t eating,” but I’m reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, “You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete,” so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything
