31 Matching Annotations
  1. Jan 2021
    1. You don’t need to carry all the burdens.

      Comment on the importance of not carrying all the burden myself, but sharing with others, relatives, friends, and being okay with doing just what's within my reach.

    2. Thoughts are not facts.

      Comment on how I create assumptions in my head about what other people think or will do like they were unquestionable facts. Things I would only know if I spoke.

    3. Be gentle with yourself.

      Comment on how this was extensivily shared last year, where we'd constantly get messages saying that it was normal not being okay due to what everything was going on and we needed to be gentler with ourselves and each others.

  2. Nov 2020
    1. decried as disenfranchisement

      decry: she decried sexists' double standards: denounce


      disenfranchisement: the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote: the widespread disenfranchisement of minority voters | the decision fuelled a sense of disenfranchisement.

    2. to mount a bid

      an attempt or effort to achieve something: he made a bid for power in 1984 | [with infinitive] : an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened.

    3. grassroots organisations

      the most basic level of an activity or organization: he appealed for unity at the grassroots | [as modifier] : trying to improve the sport's image at the grassroots level.

  3. Sep 2020
    1. abject

      adjective 1 (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree: his letter plunged her into abject misery | abject poverty. • (of a situation or condition) extremely unpleasant and degrading: the abject condition of the peasants.

  4. Jun 2020
  5. May 2020
  6. Apr 2020
    1. paltry

      adjective (paltrier, paltriest) (of an amount) very small or meagre: she would earn a paltry £33 more a month. • petty; trivial: naval glory struck him as paltry.

  7. Mar 2020