i know now; you're my only hope

HIGH CUT

sin sin sin

my kink is ppl who don’t constantly expect me to text back right away and understands that just bc i have my phone with me doesn’t mean that I’m always able to talk

Languages are made up can you believe that? it’s just a bunch of phonetic sounds gibberish none of it actually means anything. this post??? i could smash my hand on the keyboard and it could mean the same thing, it only doesn’t because we say so. Nothing is real 

I wish I wasnt so shy. I’ve missed a lot of opportunities because of it. I hate when people think being shy is “cute.” It’s not cute. I live my life scared of doing all the things I want to do because I am terrified of coming out of my shell. I feel so ridiculous and stupid.

blood/sweat/tears

‘Man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können.’ - Friedrich Nietzsche

This is a quote from Friedrichs’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None and means ‘one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star’.

The novel contains 4 parts written between 1883 and 1885, and deals with with ideas such as the “eternal recurrence of the same”, the parable on the “death of God”, and the “prophecy” of the Übermensch. The book tells the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra, based on the ancient prophet of Iron Zoroaster. 

‘A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go […] I will not be herdsmen or gravedigger. I will not speak again to the people: I have spoken to a dead man for the last time.’ (x) This is another quote from the first part of the novel, to which the dancing star quote also belongs. In the novel Zarathustra lives alone in the mountains for ten happy, peaceful years. He decides to leave the mountains, but prior to leaving, he spoke to the setting sun, saying, “I must descend…become man again.” Always trying to progress toward the “overman”. Nietzsche’s meaning behind this ideal “overman”, was that we all need to embrace what it means to be human: use our unique ability to critically think for the purpose of considering and questioning everything, in order to discover what’s all too human and what’s meaningful to us. (x)

Nietzsche’s use of the word ‘chaos’ is reminiscent of the ancient Greeks’ definition; it should be read as synonymous with the Greek word ‘physis’, meaning, “that which brings forth for and out of itself.” The ancient Greek mythology’s account of how the universe came to be says, “Chaos was first of all”. Nietzsche identifies chaos as “the creative potential within culture…the will to power…the fundamental essence of the world.” Zarathustra says that this chaos is an endangered human trait and it is imperative that it is realized within each of us before it is too late.

According to Zarathustra there are great rewards that will follow self-discovery of chaos. Immediately, there will be a sense of freedom; later, there will be a dancing star. Comparable in beauty to that of a sunset and described as a feeling of divine happiness, each individual’s dancing star is his or her unique contribution to the world – be it a thought, a painting, a novel, or even just one less negative person. (x)

ethereal