Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers | Art Heist AU | 15760 Words | Mature
Bucky Barnes is an art conservator, and occasional art forger, trying to run a reputable business. His childhood best friend, Steve Rogers, is a contemporary art world darling and occasional vigilante.
When Steve comes to Bucky asking for his help returning a painting stolen during the Holocaust to its original owner, how can he say no?
Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.
Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”
By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.
“The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced,”
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I just finished reading this article! It got better and better with each paragraph. I gasped several times in self-recognition. Everyone should read it.
“In their writing on homelessness, social psychologist Devon Price has said that “laziness,” at least in the way most of us generally conceive of it, simply does not exist. “If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you,” they write, “it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.””
