thanks Madge (:

I've been listening to Jump by Madonna on repeat because it's helping me with my anxiety with packing and leaving this cosy little room that I wish I had more time in.

I really connected with this song when I watched the Ugly Betty episode that uses only Madonna songs. It's played at the end when Betty has to make some major life decisions.

This is possibly one of my favourite Madonna songs of all time.

"There's only so much you can learn in one place. The longer you wait, the more time that you waste."

Also the video is cool cos it has parkour (:

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Soma vs Polis battle:

WINNER: Barbra Streisand -instead of changing her soma with plastic surgery, she changed the collective psyche about beauty.

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The Art of Resilience

Article from Psychology Today

if you can watch me from above, I hope I'm making you proud

The Journey by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice --

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do --

determined to save

the only life you could save.

Loser Like Me from Glee!