Paper Chains and Choosing Myself. day twenty one.
Added 2025-12-22 04:18:18 +0000 UTCToday, I made paper chains.
Simple Christmas decorations. Colored paper. Scissors. The quiet, deliberate act of making something with my hands. There was a warmth in it that surprised me.For a moment, I felt like a child again. Not nostalgic exactly, but open to it all.
At first, I felt a little silly. Taking the day off to sit on the floor with craft paper felt almost irresponsible, as though rest and play still need permission. But then I remembered the question I’ve been returning to again and again this season: How do I want to celebrate? Not how it’s told to me. Not how it’s marketed. But how it actually feels true to me.
So today, I chose slowness. I chose color. I sat on the floor. I watched holiday movies — mobster ones, honestly — and I made paper decorations without any urgency to justify them.
There is something quietly radical about choosing your own rituals. About letting celebration be shaped by intimacy rather than obligation. By what restores you, not what performs well.
Tonight, I’m going to bed after a long day of crafting. Tired in the best way.
:3
love you, mean it!
~felka felkaaaa
Comments
Make origami Ewoks and place them around the house so you can find them later on and think “ oh i remember you”
Jace_unamed0719
2025-12-22 14:06:29 +0000 UTCGoodnight felka
ye boi
2025-12-22 04:21:58 +0000 UTC
