Today my heart swings
I'm Özge (pronounced erz-geh), 23 years of age, Melbourne kid, Bubble Bust pro, studying medicine, obsessed with building my tea collection, big Game of Thrones fan, small in size, extremely impatient, lover of live music, and coffee addicted.
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I couldn’t find any ironed shirts this morning so I wore my Howards Storage World work shirt to the hospital today. Shhh.
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I spent all day in antenatal clinic today palpating big pregnant bellies and doing ultrasounds of little baby hearts, and now I’m home learning about all the cool things I saw in hospital.
It’s a really great feeling when you’re genuinely excited about what you’re learning in school, and want to rush home to read a textbook.
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Here are my votes for Triple’s J Hottest 100 for the past 20 years. The ones highlighted are some of my favourite songs and listening to them again has welled up a whole bunch of feels inside me, in a good way.
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Since my studying has been incredibly pitiful in the last few weeks since starting uni, I have adopted this new method where I set an egg timer for 15-20 minutes and study without break, without internet and without my phone for that duration. And then when the egg timer goes off I allow myself a break. And then I set the egg timer again and repeat.
The constant ticking makes you feel like you’re racing against time so you work more efficiently too. It’s great!
i know that it is no secret that I am a green. But it is days like today where I am reminded why I joined The Greens, and why I work so hard everyday to grow the green movement.
Today Parliament passed legislation that declared the continent of Australia is no longer a part of Australia’s migration zone. This is a law designed to bypass our international obligation to refugees. This is a government that locks up children in detention centres even though they have committed no crime. They are fleeing for their lives and we treat them like criminals.
The Greens oppose this. The Greens will always oppose this and they always have. They are THE ONLY party in Parliament that does.
If you think that refugees deserve better than being locked up in island prisons with no timeframe for release, you should vote Green. Because the old parties think refugees deserve that.
And this video, this is Christine Milne explaining why the government and the opposition are not only not caring for Australia, but being economically irresponsible as well.
This is why I am Green. This is why I gave up on the old parties. This is why I fight, even when it feels like all hope is lost.
You know that catchy “dumb ways to die” song for metro thats on all the ads? Well the girl who wrote that, her dad is a paediatrician and he works at the Royal Childrens and he gave us a lecture in the hospital one day, and the first thing he did was pull out his guitar and start serenading the group to “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” He the proceeded to explain to us how practicing paediatrics was the same as making music because it has to “come from the heart, not the head.”
Kid doctors, amirite?
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I think it’s rather stupid when people tell me to stop something just because I will die earlier of it. For example smoking, people always say don’t smoke because you will die like 5 years earlier then normal people. But that so stupid and wrong because the death isn’t a fixed point. You can’t say someone who smokes or drinks alcohol dies earlier then someone who drives like crazy or someone who gets hit by a bus. This theory just doesn’t work. So people should calm about the death and live every day of their life.
Actuallllllly no-one thinks you should quit smoking because you’re going to die younger. If anything, people are arguably kept alive much longer than they should be these days with all the medical technology we have.
You should quit smoking because:
- You will get erectile dysfunction if you’re a male. (The link between smoking and erectile dysfunction is strongest in younger men, and the more they smoke the more likely their equipment will let them down. SOURCE)
- You will have bad skin and gross teeth.
- You smell bad all of the time.
- You’re wasting your money on smokes when you could be spending them on clothes and shoes and handbags.
- You’re more likely to get blood clots if you’re a girl and on the pill.
- You will mostly likely have a heart attack (or multiple heart attacks) in your 40s and then need to be on 20 tablets for the rest of your life and possibly require bypass surgery with nice big scars down your arms and chest.
- You won’t be able to keep up with your mates in sports etc.
“ I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more. ”
— Franz Kafka (via atomos)
If you take antibiotics for a little bit of tonsillitis or a little cold or a little viral upper respiratory tract infection (which is what it is 99.99999% of the time) you will be judged harder than a smoker putting nice big holes into their alveoli. You don’t need them. Stop wasting them. One day all of the bugs will have gained so much resistance against what little antibiotics we have left that our children will be dying of awful bacterial infections because we wasted antibiotics on a “sore throat.”
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You wouldn’t think that it happens but it still astonishes me how many people are put on anti’s for tonsillitis. YOU DON’T NEED THEM.
→ Sixteen Small Steps to Happiness
1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise.
2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable.
3. erase processed food from your diet. start with no lollies, chips, biscuits,
4. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else.
5. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything.
6. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice.
7. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small.
8. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full.
9. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle.
10. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck.
11. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog.
12. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through.
14. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything.
15. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends.
16. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.
My mum never let us have pet dogs growing up so it’s a good thing that my boyfriend has adorable doggies to satisfy my puppy cuddling cravings.
