The 22 profound life lessons you learn from the early 2010s account JustGirlyThings
I feel like I’m back on Tumblr
Lydia VennCast your mind back to 2013. You were wearing Hollister shorts, a PINK bra and carrying an EOS lip balm. It was the days of scrolling through Tumblr, wishing One Direction would turn up at your door and watching Pretty Little Liars obsessively. And nothing sums up this tragic basic era than the Twitter account JustGirlyThings.
Rings a bell? Yep that account that shared pastel images with a signature font and had captions such as “when a song describes exactly how you feel” and “hoping to kiss someone on the beach this summer”. God I’m cringing about it now. I can remember spending hours on Tumblr and WeHeartIt sharing images of a girl in a pink dress with converse and a messy bun accompanied by the quote “wishing you had pretty eyes.”
I’d pretty much forgotten about this tragic sad time in my youth until Twitter user @itskeyon unlocked the memory. They retweeted an image from the account of Victoria’s Secret Angels, which was captioned: “Boys, if you don’t look like Calvin Klein models, don’t expect us to look like Victoria’s Secret angels.”ย Profound advice.
JustGirlyThings is full of plenty of other ‘inspiring’ quotes. A quick scroll through the JustGirlyThings Twitter account is like stepping into a time capsule to the early 2010s and it hasn’t been updated since 2013. But the wise words are still there, and I was reminded of how I really believed and related to the quotes such as “happy is the best thing someone can be”.
Seven years on though, it’s time to see if those life lessons and cringe quotes from JustGirlyThings still hold up today. Here are the 22 most moving life lessons you can learn from JustGirlyThings:
1. Damn, wish we could find out who came up with this inspiring quote
2.Thank god they told me, wouldn’t have known otherwise
3. So grateful for all 47 of you
4. Girl, please aim higher
5. Don’t know what lying in a field has to do with this but sure
6. Profound
7. Starbucks and bikes are the basic joys of life
8. Praying for this to happen
9. Thank god for that
10. True feminism
11. Preach it x
12. Omg we have the exact same taste in shoes
13. Sorry I’m just over here crying of laughter
14. I won’t let them
15. Now we know where my bitchy attitude has come from
16. Deep
17. The rules to live by
18. Genius idea
19. Thanks, but the patriarchy is trying to telling me otherwise
20. Here’s to you gals
21. I am such a rebel
22. Mind blown
Featured image credit before edits: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
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