♬ ♪: depression
I just feel so alone all the time. Even when I’m laughing and having a delightful time in the company of my bros. I think it’s probably the human condition to feel this way. Lonely and ashamed of it. And we devour the creative output of everyone trying to escape from the feeling while searching for the hints that we are not the only person feeling this way. And even when it happens, even when real people share their experiences, or we identify with fictional characters, even when we write in the plural, we still have this impenetrable wall of disbelief: there can be only us, because we are alone.
Erm, I’m sorry if this is completely creepy of me - reblogging an obviously personal post from a stranger and all - but I would just like to say, I don’t think I even have a word for how this paragraph makes me feel. Except maybe, just, “yes.”
Posted February 9, 2011 at 11:05pm
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Posted February 3, 2011 at 1:18am
” …why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” (via J.K. Rowling on Failure And Imagination) 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech
Posted January 4, 2011 at 6:32pm
Call your girlfriend
It’s time you had the talk
Give your reasons
Say it’s not her fault
But you just found somebody new
Tell her not to get upset, second-guessing everything you said and done
And then when she gets upset tell her how you never mean to hurt no one
Then you tell her that the only way her heart will mend is when she learns to love again
And it won’t make sense right now but you’re still her friend
And then you let her down easy
— Robyn
(Source: kari-shma, via quote-book)
You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?
Posted January 3, 2011 at 2:24pm
“There are two things above all that make people love and care for something, the thought that it is all theirs, and the thought that it is the only one they have.” —Aristotle
Hm, I’m still debating this…
Posted January 1, 2011 at 1:01pm
Just promise me one thing, promise me that when you pick the boy you’re really going to be with, that he’ll be someone who respects you and treats you well. And, it’s someone who makes your heart race and that he’s someone you love because of what he is, not what he does. Use your head and follow your heart.
— One Tree Hill
(Source: raindropsonredroses)
Posted November 25, 2010 at 9:17pm
