Deciding not to go forward with any higher education after high school was honestly one of the best decisions of my life.
I've always done quite well in school when it comes to grades etc, but for the past 5 years of it I'd spent every day exhausted and depressed, and I can't honestly say I retained ANY of the information I learned the last 3 years.
Most of my friends are currently studying, and every time I see one of them work with school stuff I just feel so relieved that I'm never going to have to do any of that shit again.
The only reason this was a hard decision for me, is because my entire life it was so ingrained in me that further studies was just what you did (especially here in norway where education is free). In the 10th grade, we applied for schools in class. It wasn't an option to just not apply, even though school after the 10th grade is optional in Norway. And then towards the end of 13th grade we had classes focusing on seeing different universities and different courses we could take, which for people who, like myself, were properly struggeling to get through each day at that school, was very demotivating. Just the knowledge of never being done with classes, studying, and tests.
My parents had a very hard time accepting this choice, being completely convinced that I'd change my mind some day, but what they somehow don't realize is that my biggest dream is working in a book store. I don't want an office job where I sit in meetings or at a computer all day, and I have no interest in taking on any more responsibility than that. I enjoy helping costumers in the store, and for a lot of people, that is the job they have for their whole life, and that's totally fine!
I am very lucky to be living in norway, where the minimum wage is an actual liveable wage (at least if you don't have kids, which I have never wanted), so I understand not everyone, especially a lot of disabled people who can't work a "normal" work-week, are able to just opt out of higher education if they are given the opportunity, simply because they wouldn't be able to survive on the money they'd get from such a job.
But for people who live in countries where it is possible to live a good life without higher education, I truly feel like it should be more normalized to just work at a place for joy, and not just as a stepping stone to a "better" position with more responsibility and a higher salary.
(Not to mention the fact that there are way too many jobs now that you seriously don't need higher education to do, but that for some reason requires it anyway)
Was really nervous about doing badly at my heart thingy today, so when the nurse placed all the electrodes and hooked me up to the machine I pulled out every trick my 6(?) Years of synchronized swimming taught me of controlling my heart rate and made it as low as I could
I am thankfully not very skilled at this so hopefully it didn't mess up my results
I was also completely topless in front of a stranger so my heartrate was likely a lil bit elevated from that
Cas holding demon!deans face? don’t mind if I do-
Got kicked out of therapy, plan B it is.
fuck therapy i wanna beat the shit out of someone
I really enjoy playing video games, and am usually quite okay at it, but I for some reason am completely incapable of doing them correctly. Let me explain.
I usually aim for 100% completion in all games I play, which in turn tends to make me accidentally do things in the wrong order. In addition to this I am slightly stupid and fuck up a lot, so here are some of my best moments:
1. Skyrim: was gifted the game by a friend who loves it and was immedeately hooked. After having played non stop (apart from school) for about two weeks, my friend asked me what my favorite shout was. My response? "What the fuck is a shout??" I'd played the game for two whole weeks and just casually not gotten to that quest yet. I had the quest in my log, but I was running around doing other things, also killed a few dragons and had to go back later to be able to absorb their souls
2. Stardew valley: Played the game till I got tired of it, 100+ hours. Put it away, and then realized that romance is a thing in the game. I did not have a single hint of romance in my play through lmao
3. Baldur's gate: I during the entire thing with the thieflings in the glade I somehow fucked up enough to kill every single person there, causing me not to have the thiefling party and not get the Halsin quest. I did not realize there was another solution to that problem until halfway through act two.
I also managed to enter the goblin camp the wrong way, so I entered through the exit. During this I somehow killed Halsin. Then as I exited the camp I got the pop up for the Halsin quest, and then immedeately after a pop up saying the quest was over
4. Assassin's creed: when I play open world games I usually try to do every side quest etc I can before continuing with the main quest. In the ac games you also have a neat question mark for everywhere you haven't been. So any time I entered a new a new area, I'd loot everything. This caused me to get an inventory FILLED with quest items I did not have the quests for yet. Also ended up with a lot of quest items I never got to use after finishing the game
5. Horizon forbidden west: I did not realize there were areas of the map you needed a flying creature to access, so before unlocking said creature I was going around trying to explore every single location. Somehow also managed to glitch my way into one of the places that could "only" be accessed by flying. (I jumped like a million times till I managed to angle it correctly so I was able to jump into a tree and then jump the fence that way)
Also feel the need to mention that I do not own a sense of direction, and this is often revealed in the way I play games. I have a bunch of examples, but let's do the one where I tried to play breath of the wild.
I entered into a room. Straight ahead was a very obvious opening for where to go next, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything in one of the corners. So I walked around the room, "oh look! A secret door!" I opened said door, expecting a smaller room with some loot in it. What actually happened? I walked back outside...
That's all I can remember for right now, but there is most likely a BUNCH more
Throwback to the time I opened tumblr with my sister standing behind me, and as she saw the t on the loading screen she loudly exclaimed "ARE YOU ON TINDER???" and I had to break it to her that, no I was NOT on tinder, but was in fact just a massive nerd logging onto the destiel website...
I don't think we as humans appreciate dry and not slippery ground enough. Just being able to put your foot down and TRUSTING it won't move unless you make it.
Anyways, the weather in Norway is being insane, it's wet and icy as fuck, and I slipped on the ice and fell into a puddle on my way to work today...
In norwegian it's pain silencer (smertestillende)
painkiller is such a metal fucking word. pain. killer. so badass.
@aleks.hasko_ (link to their ig: https://instagram.com/aleks.hasko_?igshid=1icao0hp1vr6o ) allowed me to make a redraw of their Cas drawing! Really happy with how this one turned out
https://instagram.com/aleks.hasko_?igshid=1icao0hp1vr6o
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