Hartwick Pines State Park, Michigan
October 2016
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dealing with the worst case scenario
- your condom breaks
- you feel a lump on your breast
- your friends are ignoring you
- you’re stranded on an island
- you got rejected by a crush
- you get into a car accident
- you got stung by a bee/wasp
- you got fired from your job
- you’re in an earthquake
- your tattoo gets infected
- your house is on fire
- you’re lost in the woods
- you get arrested abroad
- you get robbed
- your partner cheated on you
- you’re on a ship that’s sinking
- you fall into ice
- you’re stuck in an elevator
- you hit a deer with your car
- you have food poisoning
- your pet passed away
- you fall off of a horse
- you or your friend has alcohol poisoning
- you have toxic shock syndrome
- your house has a gas leak
I feel like this could be useful in my future
REBLOG THIS. I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS GUIDES ARE, BOOST THIS SHIT
I feel obligated to correct the fire one.
Hello, tumblr. friendly neighborhood firefighter here. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GET WET OR PUT WET THINGS ON YOU IN A FIRE. NEVER. And I’ll tell you why. It’s kind of counterintuitive because you’re like hey water =\= fire, right? True. Sort of.
ExcEPT.
What does a pot of water do when you put it on the stove?
Boil.
What does it do when it boils?
Steams!!
Take the Carr fire in California, for example. We all know about the tragic deaths of the woman and two young children. They had no possibility of escape so they hid underneath a wet blanket.
That is probably the worst thing you can do. It’s not their fault, it is logical! And something I definitely thought was a good idea before I became a firefighter! However, not only will the fire still burn you because a wet blanket won’t stop a raging wildfire that can melt entire buildings, but the steam burns you sustain will be even worse.
STEAM DOES MORE DAMAGE TO THE BODY AND LUNGS THAN DRY HEAT. It is the worst way to go in a fire. Steam burns are brutal.
So. DONT jump in your pool. Don’t hide under a wet blanket. Don’t cover your face with a wet towel. Always run. If you jump in a small body of water, you will basically be lobsters in a pot of boiling water.
Don’t get anything wet and put it on your face!!!!!! As this article suggests!!!!!! Which is terrible advice!!!! The rest of it is good. But the put a wet towel over your face is definitely not. DONT DO IT. Not only will it do nothing against the smoke, it will heat up and steam and as you’re breathing it in, like I said earlier, it will damage your lungs WORSE than if it was dry.
The only time water is a good thing in a fire is if you can DRINK IT. (Or ya know if you’re a firefighter with an engine and high pressure capacity hose)
This goes for garden hoses too! Against a raging house fire or wildfire they will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And often in house fires regular ol water can make it worse because of the different chemicals that can be involved.
The best advice for surviving a house or wildfire is to GET SOME PLACE THAT ISNT ON FIRE OR THAT WOULD CATCH ON FIRE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
Examples: golf courses, large areas of pavement ie EMPTY parking lots (cars are flammable and tend to be bomb-like when they catch fire) rock outcroppings, places that have ALREADY been burned and are cool (no fuel to burn= no fire) highways!!!!
And most of all let the firefighters do the work. Save yourself from breathing in carcinogenic smoke that will kill you before you can do any good and leave it to the men and women in heavy heat resistant gear and breathing apparatuses that train every day to handle these worst case scenarios.
Stay safe out there folks.
One more bit: GO TO YOUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS COMMUNITY INFORMATION SESSIONS THAT TEACH YOU ABOUT FIRE SAFETY! There’s a lot of misinformation circulating the internet so trust they peeps that do it for a living.
Tl;dr: don’t ever put water on or around yourself in the event of a fire. It’s always bad. Except if the only option is jump into the ocean cuz a forest fire isn’t going to boil the sea water. Other than that, always run. Always put yourself somewhere else than burning materials.
its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager
oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.
Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!
Fun story my biology professor just told us: When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker. He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.
One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left. Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him. He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.
His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001. Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree. He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class. He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.
So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.
Seriously. Do not believe this. You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s. I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday. It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s. My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.
You are not tied to anything. Go. Be.
My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.
Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40.
There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.
Reblogging for my followers. My high school teachers didn’t know what to do with me, and I failed everything but a low photography grade. I thought university wasn’t for me, and settled for marrying a mediocre man who spent all day on Warcraft. Then I went to community college. Now I’m in uni doing a double English and philosophy degree, just back from America. I am also single.
Also important: College is not the only option. Don’t let anyone try to tell you it is. If you’re not academically inclined, the trades are an option and they are a good option– if the only thing you think you’re good at is make-up do that. There are people who can live comfortably just doing make-up. We have this idea planted in our heads as teenagers (and younger) that not fitting into an academic mould of some sort means you’re failing at life and this is bullshit. There’s no reason to feel like you’re “failing at life” because you don’t like school or were never good at it. We need skilled workers in the world, and the thing they don’t tell you is all work is skilled work. If it’s work, it takes skill. Yes, this encompasses “service” jobs, it encompasses all jobs. Please don’t think that what you do, or what you have an interest in doing is of less value than something that requires a college education. This coming from the college-educated white girl who is a seamstress because it’s what I enjoy. If college isn’t going to get you where you want to go, than you don’t need to go! It’s that simple. Take whatever path you need to get to where you are happy and comfortable and fufilled. If you’re doing what you love you are sucessful.
i didn’t graduate with my bachelor’s until i was 26 and life took a few turns along the way but now, at 37, i have a job that makes me genuinely happy. and it’s got nothing to do with how well i did in high school.
This! This make me cry… I’m 23 and I really don’t know where I’m going, so reading this kinds of storys makes me feel hope!
I love all this support and inspiring stories, but what I think op was getting at was that our teachers/parents/elders ingrain this idea in us that if we fuck up in our teens, we fuck up everything. So don’t ever let adults make you feel less for needing/spending more time to achieve your goals. You’re still amazing if you get a degree at 24 or 44 or even not at all
for everyone needing this as much as i do right now
Here’s an exercise! I cannot draw cars well. I don’t like drawing cars.
The first sketch was from memory without looking at any photos of a car. The second was traced from a photo of a car. The third, without looking at any photos or previous sketches. I still can’t draw cars very well but a bit more about what they look like are embedded in my memory. :>
Tracing is a wonderful way to practice. This works for more than just machines, if you trace something then it helps you learn how it FEELS to draw something accurately, which gives you the freedom to experiment, exaggerate, and stylize your art without sacrificing structure and recognizeability.
I get a lot of compliments on the way I draw muscular people. If I had not gone through a phase of tracing models then I would not have learned how it FEELS to draw proportional muscles. It greatly improved my art in the long term, and now when I use reference photos I find that it’s easier for me to make sense of what I’m looking at.
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there is a person in your life and your just „How did i deserve her/him“
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