May 2013
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what it is like to live with an anxiety disorder
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1. no one ever congratulates you for doing the really difficult things like driving on the freeway or getting out of bed or staying alive 2. every friendship you make is a countdown to the moment when they finally can’t deal with the missed calls and canceled hangouts every friendship is on a timer every friendship expires sooner, not later 3. you hear phrases like “bootstraps” over...
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“Sweet lady,” he said, “no victory is half so beautiful as you.”
George R. R. Martin
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Pars pro toto principle (Latin, “a part for the whole”) is the concept of giving up a part in order to save the whole. Examples include lizards detaching their tails when attacked by predators, finger sacrifices, people giving up their valuables at knife point, and kamikaze pilots giving up their lives for their country. An example is Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to free himself...
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“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at...”
– Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers (via waydowntown)
(via tryinggtoevolve)
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[[MORE]]One of my worst pet peeves is when pampered children in their 20’s say impractical things like “money isn’t everything.” And they always seem to say it with an air of smugness and it’s unbearable having these kinds of people look down on you for being practical and wanting to acquire a stable career, as if foregoing responsibilities and expenses made them more...
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“1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things.
2. Loving you was like going to war; I...”
– Warsan Shire, “34 Excuses For Why We Failed At Love”
April 2013
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growlithed:
i dont procrastinate because im lazy i procrastinate because theres so much shit i need to do and its fucking overwhelming and i distance myself from it and do things that bring at least some enjoyment and then i get even more overwhelmed when ive procrastinated for too long i cant win its a vicious cycle
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Armin Meiwes is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim’s severed penis, Meiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh. Because of his acts, Meiwes is also known as the Rotenburg Cannibal or Der Metzgermeister (The...
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r0wdyruff:
help me, i am trapped
in a haiku factory
save me, before they
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He wants to show you the world. He wants you to search for it in him, he believes it is his to share.
But who wants to start a puzzle When the puzzle hasn’t even decided On the scene it wants to show; A puzzle with missing pieces given To different people who promised To complete it but ended up Making it smaller, more disjointed And less certain of its place in the world.
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You tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange...
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is it a blessing
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is it a blessing ?
mother letting me think i was not beautiful mother telling me, “get some talents” because i could not rely on my looks to get me anywhere nobody could, she said but especially not me, she meant was it a blessing that out of hating myself, i learned how to laugh at myself to paint sunrises to draw love to write loneliness to read hungrily to be creative...
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lelo-veiga:
It’s amazing how a clean room and a fresh start will make you realize how much you miss the dust we lose a million skin cells a day and I can’t help but wonder how much longer I’ll be shaking you from my sheets
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Nostalgia is a word used to describe the feeling of being awake at one in the morning lying in bed, trapped in your body while your mind wishes desperately to leave for pastures made greener by the tint of fond memories and wasted potential when in reality the landscape is as dreary and lifeless as a river frozen in the winter. It is the act of plunging your hands into the biting cold and ...
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Nicholo Machiavelli
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The only times I am genuinely happy with my appearance is whenever I have to take ID photos like seriously when I saw the tiny headshot I got for my full license I was so pleased with it. I wouldn’t be opposed to using it as an icon for every social media account I have if it wasn’t so grainy, low-res and potentially dangerous. What I’m trying to say is that there are little...
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I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t...
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So I’m having a really rough time with university and work and dealing with the concept that choosing a stable career and expanding my horizons are mutually exclusive life paths. Time management still isn’t my strong suit and now I’m overwhelmed with a nebulous list of things to accomplish in what appears to be a short period of time and I don’t feel like doing anything...
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Michelle Acker assembles a list of poisonous substances, where to find them, and their effects on the human body. If you are an aspiring writer, you may find this and other articles found at the source helpful. A list of the poisons she mentioned under the cut.
[[MORE]]Hemlock: All parts of the plant are poisonous. Eating a salad made with hemlock leaves would be enough to cause death. Hemlock...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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blankslate:
i tried to write about your eyes but i ran out of cliches i tried to say you plainly but there wasn’t enough truth whoever invented this language didn’t anticipate you
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the story of my colonized tongue
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i forget, sometimes, that this is not the language i was born with. i have become so adept at it, pulling out words like magic tricks from my sleeve— even convincing the world i know it better than they do but sometimes, my tongue, she wakes with a start and she remembers sometimes, she fights and in her rebellion she causes my words to stumble she rolls and flicks hisses and...
January 2013
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not-blonde:
Why did he write to her, “I can’t live without you”? And why did she write to him, “I can’t live without you”? For he went west, she went east And they both lived.
Carl Sandburg
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Love is fleeting. It is illusory at best. Love is waiting for confirmation and receiving only empty promises. Love is having brilliant fights about insignificant things. Love is buying furniture, trading chores and wishing you were alone in your room instead of sitting through 114 minutes of a badly written romantic comedy. Love is finding someone that you initially worship and eventually tear...
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One time me and my best friend were driving to a shopping centre, and me being the clueless driver I am asked her to navigate. Now, the route was very simple and it was basically just me driving forward for around 15 minutes, but I kept asking her if I had to turn to soothe the insecure, paranoid kid with a learner’s license that lurks in everyone. Anyway, we were talking about this guy we...
December 2012
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Don’t we almost always make the mistake of confusing what’s beautiful with what we starve for.
Theodore Worozbyt
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You must make this mistake once— pour boiling liquid into a blender, then pulse it. When you see your burned hands, you’ll scream.
It will be this way with love. It’s not even about getting it right. You think it’s about protecting yourself, and eventually you will— not by learning how to love, but how to do so less often.
Kellam Ayres
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How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
W. H. Auden
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An Appointment in Samara
A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Shortly, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as Death, and she made a threatening gesture. Borrowing the merchant’s horse, he flees at top speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km),...
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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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