So my therapist said something awhile back and it’s really stuck with me.
I was talking about the stupid things I had done in high school. How the stories I wrote were stupid and how all I ever wanted to draw was anime shit (which was stupid) and how immature I could be, etc etc etc.
and she was like “Why are you so determined to beat up on Little Maggie?”
It took me off guard, I was like “what do you mean?”
“Why do you keep saying Little Maggie is stupid? You say she was stupid and immature but wasn’t she just a teenager? Do you not like who you were as a teenager?”
I shrugged and was like “I think teenage me was very creative and was probably just having fun and being a teenager…”
“So why beat up on her and call her stupid and embarrassing?”
“I dunno, because I guess now I’ve learned a lot.”
“But she was young. She didn’t know. I’m just telling you this because if you keep beating up on Little Maggie, you have to remember that she grows up to be you. When you put bruises and scars on Little Maggie, you’re leaving all the healing for Big Maggie. Your insecurity about who you were as a child is going to come through into your adulthood. Be nice to Little Maggie.”
And I’d never really thought of that before? It seems status quo to just… hate who you used to be for not knowing enough, but that’s totally illogical. Of course a younger version of you doesn’t know what you know and can’t act with the wisdom that you act.
And even if Little Maggie was writing silly stories about her friends while ripping off anime and drawing her own “manga” and being immature and goofy, she was having fun, she was being creative, she was enjoying the things she liked and she wasn’t hurting anyone.
She’s part of my past and hating her is hating the foundation of who I eventually became.
Just food for thought.
I almost recently have reblogged this before but please friggin read it
Dude, the way they announced the KH3 trailer was so extra tho. After the last song, Yoko Shimomura, Tetsuya Nomura, the composer, and the pianist all bowed and then left the stage. For some reason, the entire orchestra is still sitting there. Everyone is like “is it done?” “how come they’re just sitting there?” “are they gonna do another song??” Then Nomura and the gang all come BACK to the stage after a few minutes pass and Nomura is like “I’m not gonna be at e3 tomorrow because I’m here for the concert but you guys are gonna be the first to see the KH3 trailer.” and then the entire room collectively lost their shit. Over 100 people lost their souls in the process. Me included.
The entire room didn’t just collectively lose their shit. The entire room collectively lost their shit before Nomura’s English translator could even get a WORD out. By the way, judging from the audience’s responses to both Yoko Shimamura and Tetsuya Nomura earlier in the night, only a small percentage of the audience understood Japanese. And yet that small percentage of people losing their shit was enough to DROWN OUT THE ENGLISH TRANSLATOR before she could get out a word. When she finally translated Nomura’s announcement, the sound of the rest of the audience collectively losing its shit was DEAFENING. It was a perfect, pure moment.
“I like how the artist paints those figures to look like vultures at
first glance. Then when you look closer, they’re actually skulls, with
bodies covered in ragged cloaks. Both vultures and skulls signify death
and despair. But then the sun has come out from behind that dark cloud -
to signify hope and life perhaps? Or… maybe the sun is about to be
covered by the cloud, signifying approaching death.”
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Didn’t really bother with gyms too much tonight. Too busy looking for Farfetch’d which I got a good amount of. One of which happened to be perfect IVs!
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