how do you get rid of the part of yourself that wants to passively fish for sympathy/praise?
Three things. First, just ask for the praise. People are a lot more forthcoming with compliments if they know you’re open to them. There’s a persistent and subtle belief that praise should be saved for special occasions and that it’s excessive (effusive) if given freely.
Second, be more giving with compliments and praise to other people. Most people will hear a genuine compliment, and respond with one in return. This has the benefit of both making you more practiced in giving people meaningful compliments, as well as getting more direct positivity in your life.
Third, praise yourself. There’s a belief that taking pride in your own accomplishments is vanity. That’s super, duper bullshit. Play yourself up constantly. It will feel fakey and gross at first, but over time you’ll become much more able to actually look at your own actions and see when you’re doing something good, and believe in that goodness.
I suppose as a bonus 4th thing, you could look into behavioural therapy techniques and see if any suit your needs, as well, but they can be pretty hard to self administer.
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Pick a god and pray.”
-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening
Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…
this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources
Love it!
I don’t have a graphic but. “Despite everything, it’s still you.”
do you ever think about a character dying and suddenly it hits you. like. really hits you. and you’re emotional af.
kaidan or ashley dying. imagine their family when they learn about this.
shepard dying at the beginning of mass effect 2. shepard knowing that they’re going to die now. everyone else escaping and knowing that shepard is dying in this moment. everyone’s feeling horrible. joker feeling guilty. garrus and wrex who weren’t on the normandy in that moment and learn about it afterwards. shepard’s dead. just like that.
when i was a breeze i blew four dozen trees every morning to strengthen my gales and now that i’m grown i just raze them with ease, so i’m seven times bigger than wales!
on march 22, 2233 in riverside, iowa, some nerd is literally going to name their kid james tiberius kirk somehow, like, i know this, and yet i’m not prepared for it
Captain-Radioactive-Mentality 