This is for you who is tired of being positive during this pandemic.

Remember that you’re not lazy. You’re not an underperformer. You’re just human. You’re dealing with an extraordinary amount and it’s normal for this on and off lockdowns to have an emotional toll on you.

It’s okay to cut yourself some slack and wallow for a hot minute. Take a break from self help articles and motivational quotes for a minute.

Just for a brief moment in time, before we go back to trying to show up as the better version of us, let’s acknowledge how maddening our current circumstances are.

If you needed permission to be negative for a day, and allow yourself to bemoan the state of the world and just wallow in our shared invisible sadness, this is it. Because god knows, sometimes we even need a break from trying.

If you feel weary and drained and worn out like an old tattered sweater, I see you.

And I’m with you.

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早安，今日來讀紐約時報
原來全世界的人都覺得
父母讓自己很～崩～潰～？

🤬 你媽註定讓你抓狂
Your Mom Is Destined to Annoy You

🤷‍ I have a 48-hour serenity limit when I’m with my parents. After two days, it’s like an alarm sounds inside me and sends me right back to 1999. I’m a petulant teenager again with a bad attitude, and everything my mother says, no matter how innocuous, inspires the response, “Ugh, Mom, stop nagging me!”

和父母在一起時，我只有48小時的心態平和期。但凡過了兩天，我身體裡就會像響起警報一樣，讓我重返1999年。我又會變成一個不耐煩的暴躁少年，媽媽說的每一句話，無論多麼無害，都會引來我這樣的反應：「唉，媽，別再嘮叨我了！」

👪 I am far from alone in this. Psychologists even have a term to describe the way we fall back into predictable, maddening behavior patterns when we’re with our family of origin. It’s called family systems theory — the notion that families have an equilibrium, and each person has a fixed role that “is in service of keeping the family system intact.”

在這個問題上，我可不是孤例。心理學家甚至有一個術語來描述回到原生家庭時，我們身上出現的可預測的、令人抓狂的退化行為模式。這個術語叫做家庭系統理論，家庭都有各自的平衡，每個人在「維持家庭系統完好的過程中」都扮演著固定的角色。

So whatever your established role is — whether you’re the appeaser, or the family clown, or the petulant one — you’re going to be thrown right back there the second you walk through the door of your childhood home.

所以，不管你的既定角色是什麼——安撫者、小丑或是脾氣暴躁的人——當踏進童年時代家庭大門的一刻，你就會重新回到那個角色之中。


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#告訴我✍🏻你媽也會讓你抓狂嗎？
就送你【今日讀報單字包】！

#我們情同姐妹 #簡直水火不容了
#超過兩天就會把屋子都掀了

Throwback to #20weekspregnant and #babymoon in Japan⁣
Even though after that halfway of my pregnancy journey spent during pandemic but i cherish every moments and i feel pregnancy is the most beautiful thing happen in my life.. 🤰🏻⁣
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However i cannot deny that anxiety is real.. There is so much going on inside my body that i cannot see. It's maddening to not know the source of every pain and discomfort. My mind naturally go to worst case scenario.. ⁣
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Good thing that I like to express my feeling, i talk things out with my husband, trusted friends and family. My loved ones can often look at a situation more objectively than I can, especially when I'm dealing with fear and anxiety.. ⁣
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I trying so hard to fill my mind with positive thoughts that focus my attention on all that's good, not all that could go wrong.⁣
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It’s only few more days 💪🏻 ‘till i hold you in my arm.. 🤱🏻⁣
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Release date: Oct 14, 2020 on Nintendo Switch
Players: 1 player
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* Battle a host of hideous bosses from the depths of your nightmares
* Multiple endings to unravel
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【時間碼】

00:00:10 Japanese encephalitis 日本腦炎 #小心日本腦炎
00:00:58 positive 陽性 #巴西總統確診武漢肺炎
00:01:21 bigotry 偏執 #哈利波特作者歧視跨性別
00:02:49 cancel culture 封殺文化 #什麼是封殺文化
00:04:40 face mask 口罩 #口罩殺鯨
00:05:12 簡單複習

【Japanese encephalitis 日本腦炎】
Taiwan is currently in the peak season for Japanese encephalitis.

病媒蚊 - 稻田、水溝、池塘
避免去、或接種疫苗
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202007070022

【positive 陽性】
Brazilian President has tested positive for COVID-19.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-08/brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/12432718

【bigotry 偏執（通常是對緊抓著某種歧視與偏見不放）】
J.K. Rowling's bigotry is painful and maddening.

羅琳歧視跨性別？還是人紅是非多，被污衊？

我來為你解答，認真爬過她的推特及相關報導
關鍵：
跨性別女性（生理男轉生理女） — 不是女性
（老娘生下來就是女生，這點你永遠比不上）
為什麼這是歧視

跨性別荷爾蒙治療
性別扭轉治療
固執、偏執不過羅琳還沒鬧完喔，下一個字

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/opinions/jk-rowling-conversion-therapy-transphobia-conley/index.html

【cancel culture 封殺文化】
Is cancel culture an important tool of social justice?

名人說出：種族歧視、反同
封殺（灌爆、拒看作品）
羅琳 & 其他名人發出公開信：拒絕 cancel culture，捍衛言論自由，反而引發各界抨擊
我覺得：cancel culture 對也錯
對：言論自由，如果他有言論自由，說歧視的話，憑什麼我不能回擊、不能抵制他的作品呢？
錯：謾罵。盡量理性溝通，用說理與邏輯灌爆對方的留言，給對方成長改變的機會，給路過的網友吸收新知的機會。

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/30/20879720/what-is-cancel-culture-explained-history-debate

【face mask 口罩】
More and more face masks are ending up in the sea.口罩好好丟垃圾桶
一個亂丟的口罩，殺死一頭鯨魚

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-53287940/coronavirus-the-masks-you-throw-away-could-end-up-killing-a-whale

簡單複習：Japanese encephalitis 日本腦炎、positive 陽性、bigotry 偏執、cancel culture 封殺文化、face mask 口罩。

Lyrics

Here we are again
Revel in your fleeting innocence
I don't want you to go

Spend the night with me
Let me in and show me what you see
Where you want this to go

I know this ain't the time
to be wishing that I was much older
in your favour

So don't let me sleep alone Sugar
You're working late she knows that
tomorrow you'll come back
So just stay here
You promised you're leaving at daylight
so, tonight
Let me lift you up as you lay me down

Baby hold me please
You're rushing through my veins its maddening
How you take me over

I know this ain't the time
to be wishing that you're just much younger
in my favour

But I push that aside
and I strayed for awhile
Oh I guess ill be fine
It's happened too many times

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