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learning to love the life i have now ✧ 𐦍
a look into the real life of a struggling late twenties girlie with no motivation
📍 maryland

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i spent a long time waiting for my life to look different before i let myself enjoy it but, i’m not doing that anymore. this is my self-love era and i’m not waiting for it to look perfect.

and to keep myself accountable to growth, joy, and reclaiming my happiness, i decided to share my journey online. i’m hoping to find my people in the same boat 🫶🏼

sound off in the comments if you’re in this stage of life too ↓ by @buildingari

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a month ago

i’m taking a break after this class.

so this was only my first PhD course and I struggled so hard. with it being a condensed course (8 wks vs 16) while working nine hours a day and trying to take care of my health, maintain my house, and figure out my dog wasn’t really working for my schedule.

i am trying to get over the fact that this is not quitting and tell myself that this is prioritizing myself first but it’s really hard to see it that way. by @buildingari

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10 hours ago

welcome to craftober 🎃🦇🧙‍♀️ 2/31

i’ll be honest, i was supposed to start this yesterday but i 100% forgot so we’re just going to pretend that I did 🤭 i’ve been a little mia because life will not stop throwing curveballs at me but i’m back and im doing crafts and i hope you follow along!

#craftober #crafting #contentcreator by @buildingari

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a day ago

went to bed with big workout plans but i woke up late instead. the realities of my life 🙄 so i showered, which drained me more than the workout would have because showers make me stressed out. doomscrolled for an hour under the guise of air-drying to make myself feel better and then i spent the whole day at work internally screaming wtf. on top of that i ate lunch at like 2pm and cracked an alani at 4pm because apparently that’s what this monday is but! i’m trying to remind myself of these three things for the rest of the week. we’ve got this 😮‍💨

#latetwenties #corporategirlie #nomotivation #adultingoffscript #phdlife

adulting struggles, corporate life, learning in my late twenties by @buildingari

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19 days ago

i started a phd this year because my job has an education assistance program. corporate slave behavior but also. free money, actually.

sometimes the lemons from life come with sugar too 😌

it’s hard to see the benefit of the grind when you’re in it but it is there. i can flex my schedule to take off or work remote (on occasion) and there are ways to enjoy the life you have even if its not the ✨dream✨ life you want yet.

excited to document the journey to unpack all that 🫶🏼

#corporatelife #phdjourney #romantizingmylife

phd · corporate job · corporate slave · education assistance program · tuition reimbursement · flexible work schedule · remote work · work from home · work life balance · grad school while working · phd student · adulting · dream life · document the journey by @buildingari

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22 days ago

I’m a ‘97 baby. I work a 9-6 that I have a love/hate relationship with, currently getting my PhD on the company’s dime. Married, no kids. Redoing my house one room at a time, 6 months per room. Getting back into reading and art. Searching for the energy to go to the gym.

Sound like you? Well hi, I’m Ari! Drop a 🤍, I’m looking for my people.

#findingjoy #latetwenties #buildingyourself

usa creator • community building • maryland • finding yourself • virtual friend finding • corporate life • phd life • pmos struggles taken in Maryland by @buildingari

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24 days ago

i was an athlete for as long as i can remember. it was how i knew myself, how i knew i was good at something, how i felt proud of myself.

then my health went sideways and the athleticism went with it and so did i. i’m still a little sideways tbh.

but this is me relearning that (amongst all the other things im relearning) showing up to move my body because it’s mine and it’s worth taking care of.

re-finding myself • body & health journey by @buildingari

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a month ago

i refuse to believe dolly is gone.

i’m sure this quote is up and down everyone’s feed right now, but it’s the one that’s always stuck with me.

i didn’t know much of her music growing up. i knew who she was as a person, what she stood for. as a queer catholic, the way she moved through the world, the way she gave back, the way she held herself. that was an example of what it looks like to live like Christ, even though she wasn’t Catholic herself. she embodied it anyway.

the world was better because she was in it. it stays that way if we keep living like she did.

#dollyparton #queercatholic #adultingoffscript #romanticizinggrowth #ripdolly by @buildingari

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a month ago

Don’t get me started on the # of photos of my dog relieving herself.

i call it prioritizing what matters 💁🏼‍♀️

and i think this is what it means to adult “off script.” at least that’s what i’m documenting here.

#late20s #offscript #chaoticjoy #findingmyself taken in Annapolis, Maryland by @buildingari

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a month ago

10 year-old me had a very specific vision and we have deviated significantly. But we’re trying to get back on track.

#queercatholic #selfimprovement #thewordwasgay by @buildingari

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5 months ago

he knew before I clocked in. by @buildingari

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5 months ago

today i had energy again. not much, but enough. and that, i think, is holy.

because holiness isn’t only in the miracles or the mountaintops — it’s in the quiet decision to try again. to brush your hair. to wash a dish. to open the window and let the light in.

it’s the kind of holy that doesn’t ask to be noticed. the kind that hums quietly in the background, in the breath you didn’t think you’d take, in the pulse that whispers still here.

for a long time, i thought i’d lost my faith because i couldn’t feel it.

but maybe God was in the stillness too.

in the body that kept living when it was tired. in the queer heart that kept beating when the world said it shouldn’t. maybe holiness is the ache and the breath at once. maybe it’s the small resurrections we never post about.

healing doesn’t always look like progress.

sometimes it just looks like being here again — breathing. becoming. and calling that sacred. by @buildingari

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a year ago