honestly i just wanna take a second to be serious and say thank you to one direction for everything they unknowingly did for me, they made me feel happy at some of my lowest moments and idk what i would have done without them. i love that band with all my heart truly.Β
TEN YEARS OF ONE DIRECTION β©β©β©β©β© (July 23rd, 2010).
HAPPY 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY ONE DIRECTION!Β
#10yearsof1D
seeing one direction from like 2010-2015 now is such a mindfuck. bc holy shit they were kids for so much of it and i was a kid too. we were so young, weβll never be that young again but we spent so many of our teenage years together. you are not immune to 1d nostalgia..
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The live action Full Metal Alchemist looks so good
no offence but β¦β¦. itβs in your lips.. and in your Kiss, its in ur touCH and ur fingeeeeertips.. . and itβs in all the things and other things that make you who you areee and ur aaaa-eyes irresistiblee
wow the new jurassic world looks so good
in case you were wondering if anyone will remember your random acts of kindness:
when i was in kindergarten, i met a boy named jordan. i donβt remember meeting him. i remember knowing him when, one day before dismissal, he came up and asked if he could be my friend. i was a painfully shy kid, and he was friendly and fun and talked a lot, so i said yes. we were the kind of friends that kindergarteners are: buddies during snack time, sharing the best crayons when we colored, and never even thinking that it could go outside of the walls of our school. it was fine. it was great. i had a friend. heβs the first friend i ever made on my own. heβs the first person who made me realise that i could.
my next clear memory of jordan comes when i was in fourth grade. in the morning, i was talking to kristen, who was one of my only friends at that point. she was looking forward to gym, because it was dodgeball day. i was not; i was always picked last in gym class, no matter who the team captains were. you donβt pick the slow-moving kid with glasses if you want to win, and grade-schoolers can be cruel. jordan heard, though; i remember that, because i remember him looking at me as i pointed out how much i wasnβt looking forward to gym, and i remember my cheeks burning because this popular kid heard about my problems.
we had lunch, and math, and finally gym to round out the day. gym, and dodgeball, and riley being one captain, and jordan being the other. and jordan, who won the coin toss, who got his pick of any kid in our class, picking me first. he didnβt even hesitate. he called my name, he pointed to me, and he smiled at me when i walked up to stand next to him. when riley laughed and picked derek for his team and taunted jordan about how he was going to lose, jordan laughed right back and told him that with me on his team, he was definitely going to win. (i donβt remember if we won or not. we probably didnβt. all i remember is not hating dodgeball for one day, and that was enough.)
fast-forward another few years, to another gym class in another school. we were doing baseball, which was my own personal hell in seventh grade. my eyesight hadnβt gotten any better, and i was too tall, too skinny, too out of touch with how to move my limbs to possibly make the bat and the ball connect. rules were rules, though, and no matter how far back in the batting line i stood, nobody was allowed to go back in the building until everyone had a chance. i made myself last every chance i could, because by that point anyone who was interested in the sport had gotten their fill and wandered away, and it didnβt matter that i stuck my elbows out and hunched over the plate and swung and swung and swung at balls that kept whizzing by me and smacking into the fence.
this day, though, this day was the worst day, because i had to be in the middle of the lineup. i donβt remember why; i only remember the sick feeling in my stomach, the feeling that the class would laugh at me as i stood there praying i didnβt move the wrong way and get hit with the ball. when i got up to home plate, i grabbed the bat and stood there and stared at the pitching mound, and jordan smiled back at me. i was clearly nervous; it was no secret that i hated gym, wasnβt any good at it. there were two kids on bases in the field, and someone in the back made a comment about striking me out; one of the kids on base groaned about how he was just going to steal home. jordan kept smiling as he walked off the mound, came up next to me, and quietly asked if he could show me how to hold the bat, how to stand. he demonstrated how to swing, and told me to just try to hit it gently. βjust like this,β he said, and held the bat out in front of himself. bunting. i knew the name, even if iβd never been able to pull it off before. βhold it there. youβll hit the ball.β
i nodded. i didnβt care. i wanted it to be over with.
he walked back to the mound, looked back and me, and then took a few steps forward. βjust like i said,β he told me, and i nodded again. he tossed the ball very gently, and i held the bat out, and miracle of miracles, i bunted the ball. βrun, run,β he yelled, making a ridiculous dive for the ball, kicking it out of the way of any of the outfielders who were catching on and heading for it. βfirst base!β
i ran. i made it to first base. i laughed, because i had never been able to do that before, and jordan turned and smiled at me before returning to the mound and striking out the next three people at bat, one right after the other.
now consider this: i met jordan almost twenty-five years ago. i remember these things, these small kindnesses, the things he didnβt have to do but did anyway. he probably doesnβt remember doing any of them. he probably doesnβt even remember me, at this point, and thatβs fine. i remember his kindness when there wasnβt a ton to be had, and i remember him smiling when everyone else was laughing at me.
kindness matters. thanks for being kind, jordan. and to everyone else who has been kind, to me or to someone else: thank you, too. your kindness is noted, is appreciated, is remembered.
βOh look, another glorious morning. Makes me sick!β - Hocus Pocus (1993)
Little Mix celebrate Leigh-Anneβs birthday at Gilgamesh in London, UK on 30th September 2017
If youβre a Non-Muslim and you see a Muslim praying in public, could you please not pass in front of them?
Go behind them, but not in front. π
Oh, signal boost! I didnβt know this.
Okay, but also: if you see a Muslim praying in public and they have something in front of them, like a purse or a bag or something like that, you can pass in front of them, but pass in front of that object.
itβs called a sutrah, and itβs meant to act as a physical barrier between the person praying and someone who might happen to pass in front.
Also, if you did this and didnβt know, please donβt beat yourself up over it. Now you know! Muslims arenβt supposed to pass in front of Muslims praying, either, because prayer is communication with God and you donβt want to break that connection.
