@fanyfeartis
Not sure if this is the right platform to share something like this, but I feel like I need to.One of the artists who did most of my tattoos died in the war a couple of days ago.Itās a strange kind of grief ā you didnāt know them deeply, but their work is literally under your skin forever.Iāll carry that part of them with me for the rest of my life.Rest easy.
HOW DO YOU EVEN GET OVER THAT SOCIAL SHAME WHEN SPEAKING A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE??Like, I know the world wonāt collapse if I mess up a tense or a word, but my brain still goes: āDisgrace. We are a disgrace. Burn the passport.āAnd that urge to disappear because I said āchickenā instead of ākitchenā ā how do you turn it off??People who want to move into a bunker after every mistake ā no questions for you. Iām packing too š
Sometimes I try to look at my native language from the outside⦠and realize how insane some phrases sound, like: Ā«Š ŃŠŗŠø не Š“Š¾Ń Š¾Š“ŃŃ ŠæŠ¾ŃŠ¼Š¾ŃŃŠµŃŃĀ» ā literally āmy hands havenāt reached to take a look yetā (Which basically means you didnāt have time to watch/do something)
A random page from a book in a store said to me:i suffer from this anxietyabout my own productivityi worry that everyone works harder than meand iāll be left behindbecause i donāt work fast enoughi donāt work long enoughi waste too much timei never eat at the tablei always eat on the goi only call my mom when i get a break at workbecause otherwise the talk will take too longi put off everythingthat doesnāt bring me closer to my dreamsthough everything i put off āis my dreamyeah okayyyy
Maybe itās weird, but the only study method that ever actually worked for me was: read a dense paragraph ā take a nap š„±Especially with pharmacology, medicine, or chemistry. Iād overload my brain with complex terms, reread the same paragraph ten times, then justā¦knock out for ten minutesš¬And somehow, thatās the one system that actually helped me retain stuff ā even years laterI still remember things I learned five years ago, even if theyāre completely useless in my job now
Random pharmacology fact nobody asked for:A lot of medications made for the Asian market have significantly lower dosages than their European or Western counterparts.Why? Genetics and metabolism.Some enzymes work slower in certain populations, so the same dose hits harderBonus: Iāve literally seen warnings on āseriousā meds like ānot for use in people of Japanese descentā Science is wild
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